Clearly I don't understand how gates work. I think of a gate, as a novice, as something that opens and closes. In an opened state, audio proceeds to output. In a closed state, nothing proceeds to output. I bought this 286S in hopes of mitigate things like breathing etc from proceeding to output by using the Expander/Gate function. However, nearly everything goes to output regardless of how I set the gate. I can test this easily enough by speaking very softly into the mic and increasing my volume until the gate opens. However, the meters on my recorder will pick up everything. Probably a dumb question but why is this and what is a gate for if not to stop and start flow to output?