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DN530
2 Operator Manual
Applications
The DN530 provides a quality, cost effective and compact gating unit presented in a
traditional 1U quad channel format. This makes it suited to applications where space is
limited and is ideal for small touring public address (PA) rigs where the four channels
are enough to cover a small drum kit. The accent feature will largely eliminate the need
for excessive EQ or compression on these channels, which is ideal if the accompanying
console has limited processing facilities.
Other applications include ducking channels to make room for other instruments,
ducking with the sidechain filter active to reduce sibilance, noise gating effects
processors or other noisy sources like guitar amps.
The accent feature is primarily intended for use with gated percussion, but it can also
be used on its own with the gate range set to minimum in order to add punch, as an
effect, to varied sources.
The DN530 has been primarily designed for the following main application areas:
• Touring live sound In applications where analogue consoles are still required due
to their ease of use. Here the DN530 gate would primarily be used for channel
inserts on drums. The quality of sound produced by the accent feature may also
make the unit useful as an insert on digital desks too.
• Theatre live sound Theatres could make use of the gate in the same way as
touring and, for example, may also use it as a noise gate on vocals.
• Corporate live event Used similarly to the touring and theatre live sound
applications.
• Conference and other fixed install Particularly for noise gating, with the small
rack size being an important factor.