Drawmer DSL424  
Two Plus Two Noise Gate and Compressor

The DSL424 allows the audio engineer to utilize high quality gates and compressors where rack space is at a premium. The frequency conscious gate channels include high and low pass filtering, allowing the engineer to dial in the frequency at which gating is triggered thereby avoiding unwanted triggering by ambient noise. Key listen mode allows you to listen to the affected material to help you dial in the correct frequency.

A rear panel key input also allows you to use source material from another channel to trigger the gate effect. The compressor channels include Threshold, Hard Knee/Soft Knee, Ratio, Make-up gain, Bypass, and Peak Limiting controls. Setting up is simplified by the auto attack and release system which continually optimizes the attack and release times to suit the dynamics of the material being processed. At its highest ratio setting, the DSL424 also provides true hard limiting.

Key to the popularity of Drawmer auto gates and compressors is the fact that the auto circuitry has been designed to allow transient sounds to pass through cleanly, thus maintaining the clarity and transparency of the original source. Your mixes therefore become more present and intelligible in difficult live sound or recording situations.

Use the DSL424 on snare and kick drum to really bring out the punch of the rhythm section. Gate the bass with the bass drum as the key trigger to "tighten things up." Use it on stereo guitars to get that "in your face" powerful sound. Use it on the stereo buss to smooth out the overall mix and make it more "musical" without audible pumping or loss of clarity, or use it on smaller systems to hard limit the program material and save stress on your speakers.

Features

• Two stereo linkable gates, two stereo linkable compressors in one rack space
• User selectable frequency conscious gating avoids unwanted triggering from ambient noise
• Stereo linkable compression with highly intuitive program dependent attack and release
• Fully adjustable threshold, release, and gain with additional peak limiting

Drawmer compressors/limiters  |  MX30  |  DL241  |  DL241XLR  |  DL441  |  DL251  |  DL651 Sixpack  |  1968 Merc  |  DSL424