behringer multigate pro xr4400

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I did a search on this but nothing came up. I was just curious if anyone has had any experience with this unit? It says that it has 4 completely independant gates/expander. I want to use the gates on drums but im not particularly interested in the expander section. Can you operate the gates without the expander(by the way what is an expander lol?).
Also if this unit is krap and there is a better noisegate to serve my purposes someone let me know. This one is going for $129 new.

thanks
chris
 
as far as i know, an expander works kinda like an inverted compressor..... it is kinda like a gate working in the opposite direction... lifting weak signals to to the desired level, thus raising the noise floor... i am probably way off but that is my understanding...

dunno if this helps but you could probably pick up a pair of beringer autocoms (compressors) for the same price... these have useable expander gates on them (no real control over release time... slow or fast, thats it) but you get very good compressors for the money as well... just me confusing you with another option
 
thanks

Thanks for the info, im mainly looking for just a dedicated gate unit. I already have a few compressors that i like so im not really looking for another comp. If i get another comp, its going to be the RNC. So i guess no one has fooled with this unit.
 
There's a slight misunderstanding, I think. You can use the Multigate as either a gate or an expander, not as both at the same time. Think of the expander as a "soft" gate. In expander mode the signal is not mutet completely but faded out, which comes in handy for cymbals for instance.
 
makes sense

Thanks rossi,
that makes alot more sense now. Im glad someone cleared up the difference between the gate and the expander.
 
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