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CD3000XL OperatorÕs Manual Page 201
GATED REVERB
Gated reverb is ordinary reverb that cuts off abruptly. It was discovered by Peter Gabriel and his
enginerr Hugh Padgham when setting up a drum sound and some noise gates were still
connected to some mixer channels that had reverb going through them. When the drum was
hit, the reverb decay on these drums was being stopped dead by the noise gates creating a
dramatic sound where there was just a short burst of reverb after the sound. With the careful
adjustment of reverb decay time and noise gate parameters, he found you could add a very
controllable amount of dynamic ambience around the sound where the drum has dense
‘space’ around it but the reverb doesn’t hang over into the next beat. The CD3000XL’s multi-
effect processor offers two variations on this effect. With GATED selected, the screen looks
like this:
The first ‘gated’ reverb effect, GATED 1, ‘looks’ like this:
PRE-DELAY
TIME
The initial sound is heard and then, after a time set by the PREDELAY parameter, a dense
reverb sound is heard which cuts off abruptly. The parameters are:
This sets the time before the gated reverb will start sounding.
This sets the length of the gated reverb.
This has the effect of making the gated sound more or less ‘grainy’ and
‘echoey’.
The other gated reverb effect (GATED 2) is essentially the same but the decay characteristics
are slightly different.
PRE-DELAY
TIME
Here, the decay is ‘flatter’ giving a more dramatic effect (albeit more artificial).