Tascam DM-3200 Owner's Manual

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5 – Channel modules : Dynamics processorsTASCAM DM-3200 User’s Manual 63Gates (input channels 1–32)GATE This is an on-screen button, allowing you toturn the channel gate (1 through 32, inputs only) onand off. Duplicated in the global section at the rightof the screen.Threshold (THRESH) , controlled by the POD 1knob, allows the setting of the threshold at which thegate will open. Variable from -80dB to 0dB in 1 dBsteps.Range (RANGE) , controlled by the POD 2 knob,sets the gate range, from 60dB to 0dB in 1dB steps.Gate attack time (ATTACK), controlled by thePOD 3 knob. Variable from 0ms to 125ms in 1mssteps.Hysteresis (HYST) , controlled by the POD 4 knob,from 0dB to 24dB in 1dB steps.NOTEHysteresis is a second threshold. The Threshold value isused when opening the gate, and that of Hysteresis, typ-ically set a few dB lower than Threshold, when closingthe gate. This means that once a signal has droppedbelow the Hysteresis level, it must rise again to theThreshold level for the gate to re-open, thus reducing oreliminating gate “chatter”/Gate hold time (HOLD) , controlled by the POD 3knob on the second row. Variable from 0ms to 990msin 100 steps.Gate decay time (DECAY) , controlled by thePOD 4 knob on the second row. Variable from 50msto 5.0s.Compressor/expandersCOMP/EXPAND This is an on-screen button,allowing you to turn the channel compressor/expander on and off. Duplicated in the global sectionat the right of the screen.Insert point (INS PNT) allows the compressor/expander to be inserted either pre-EQ or post-EQ(channels 1 through 32—buss, aux and stereo arepre-fader only). Move the cursor to this field and usethe ENTER key to change this setting.The link and trigger settings work in the same way asfor the gate (see above).Threshold (THRESH), controlled by the POD 1knob, and variable from -48dB to 0dB in 1 dB steps.Compression/expansion ratio (RATIO), con-trolled by the POD 2 knob, and variable from 1:1 to∞:1 (infinite compression).The steps are as follows: 1.00:1, 1.05:1, 1.11:1, 1.18:1,1.25:1, 1.33:1, 1.43:1, 1.54:1, 1.67:1, 1.82:1, 2.00:1, 2.22:1,2.50:1, 2.86:1, 3.33:1, 4.00:1, 5.00:1, 6.67:1, 10.0:1, 20.0:1,∞:1.When the processor is used as an expander, the val-ues are: 1.00, 2.00, 4.00, 8.00, 16.0, 32.0, 64.0.Attack time (ATTACK), controlled by the POD 3knob, and variable from 0ms to 125ms in 1ms steps.Release time (RELEASE), controlled by the POD 4knob, and variable from 5ms to 5.0s in 100 steps.Decay time Step size5 ms to 200 ms 5 ms200 ms to 300 ms 10 ms300 ms to 500 ms 20 ms500 ms to 1.00 s 50 ms1.00 s to 3.00 s 0.1 s3.00 s to 5.00 s 0.2 sRelease time Step size5 ms to 200 ms 5 ms200 ms to 300 ms 10 ms300 ms to 500 ms 20 ms500 ms to 1.00 s 50 ms1.00 s to 3.00 s 0.1 s3.00 s to 5.00 s 0.2 s