Gates & Expanders

When the live drums need to sound tighter in the studio - you need a gate. When the guitar solo bleeds into the vocal mic at Wembley stadium - you need a gate. When you want the audience mics to ride up at the end of the songs in your live broadcast - you need an... expander.

Whether they're built into a console channel strip or as a wall of rack-mounted Drawmer DS201's - noise gates and audio expanders have been crucial to both cleaning up live performances and shaping new sounds for decades. With less spill, your EQ and dynamic changes are more effective. You can get creative with different key inputs and sidechain filters to make your mix pump. Hell, you might even just 'feel it in the air tonight' and stumble across an era-defining drum sound!