travis16vp
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Does anyone know of any online articles explaining the expander/gate. I've seen a lot of everything else but not this. I'm specifically working with protools but general info will do. Thanks in advance!
I know of no articles offhand, but I will say that an expander and a gate are two entirely different tools.Does anyone know of any online articles explaining the expander/gate. I've seen a lot of everything else but not this. I'm specifically working with protools but general info will do. Thanks in advance!
An expander is basically the exact opposite of a compressor.
In short, whereas a compressor compresses everything above or below a set threshold level (usually above on standard downward compressors), an expander will expand the dynamic range of signals above or below the set threshold. Whereas you might, let's say for example, compress everything above a certain threshold by, say, 3:1 compression, one can use an expander to expand everything beyond the threshold by 1:3.How does that work? Sorry if it's a dumb question. I've never used or tried to use one before.