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Drawmer DS101 Operator's Manual

Noise gate for the 500 series rack system
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500 SERIES RACK SYSTEM
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DS101

NOISE GATE

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  • Page 1: Table Of Contents

    DRAWMER DS101 NOISE GATE FOR THE 500 SERIES RACK SYSTEM CONTENTS ......2 Warranty .

  • Page 2: Warranty

    DRAWMER COPYRIGHT This manual is copyrighted © 2012 by Drawmer Electronics Ltd. With all rights reserved. Under copyright laws, no part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language in any form by any means, mechanical, optical, electronic, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of Drawmer Electronics Ltd.

  • Page 3: Chapter 1 - Introduction Introduction

    500 SERIES RACK SYSTEM The Industry-Standard High-End Noise-Gate comes to the 500 Series! The DS101 is the first noise gate designed specifically for the 500 Series rack system and takes its place alongside the Drawmer family of industry standard Noise Gates, such as the DS201, DS501 and DS404. Anyone familiar with those units will immediately be at home with the DS101.

  • Page 4: Installation

    Whilst looking down into the 500 series rack ensure that the DS101 card edge connectors line up with the EDAC type connector of the rack, then gently push the DS101 in place keeping it as square as possible until it is fully located. Do not use excessive force! Tighten the two front panel screws.

  • Page 5: Typical Connection Guide

    TYPICAL CONNECTION GUIDE DS101 - Noise Gate for 500 Series Systems...

  • Page 6: Chapter 2 - Control Description

    ‘Traffic light’ display giving clear indication of gate status as well as Threshold Metering. • Key input for external triggering. • Linking. Each DS101 can be linked to another whilst still retaining independent envelopes. • Can be used for "Gating" or "Ducking". •...
  • Page 7 ‘clicks’ and ‘pops’ using an External Key Trigger. Bypass Switch With the Bypass switch active the input signal is routed to the output with no processing taking place. DS101 - Noise Gate for 500 Series Systems...

  • Page 8: The Key Filters

    ‘Key Filters’ section and the Threshold of the adjacent left channel - if this is also linked this continues until the Master DS101 is reached. Note that only adjacent channels can be linked. The Attack, Hold, Range and Decay controls, as well as the Duck and Bypass switches remain indepentent.

  • Page 9: Quick Start Guide

    If the ends of sounds are being truncated, then a longer Decay time may help. On the other hand, if unwanted noise is audible after the wanted sound has ended, a shorter Decay time may be more appropriate. DS101 - Noise Gate for 500 Series Systems...

  • Page 10: Noise Gate Operation

    DRAWMER Noise Gate Operation There are circumstances when the programme material is corrupted such as, in a multi-miked drum kit setup, some hi-hat will inevitably leak into the snare microphone, some snare drum into the kick drum microphone and so on. Equally, on location, you may experience problems due to wind or traffic noise or close-by conversation.
  • Page 11 In addition to voice over applications, the Duck function of the DS101 may also be used to treat a signal where the peaks are too loud and require attenuating. In this application, ‘Duck’ and ‘Internal’ (i.e source switch not selected) modes should be selected, and the ‘Range’...
  • Page 12 DRAWMER Difficult Material To Gate If noise contamination is serious enough to be evident even during moderately loud programme material, then simple gating will do little to help. Indeed, the very fact that the Gate produces silence during pauses can make the noise content of the programme material even more apparent.
  • Page 13 Gating a Snare Drum Gating Toms Note: The diagrams shown provide settings that should give a useful starting point during gating. As all scenarios differ they will need to be altered to provide perfect gating. DS101 - Noise Gate for 500 Series Systems...
  • Page 14 DRAWMER Tighten Vocals and Brass Sections A clever use of the external triggering via the Key input is making particular parts start and finish at the same time. Regarding vocals and brass sections performers may start a fraction early, some end a fraction late. Link the channels and use the backing vocal/trumpet with the best timing as the trigger for the gate to tighten the timing up.

  • Page 15: If A Fault Develops

    CONTACTING DRAWMER Drawmer Electronics Ltd., will be pleased to answer all application questions to enhance your usage of this equipment. Please address correspondence to: Drawmer (Technical Help line)

  • Page 16: Block Diagram

    DRAWMER BLOCK DIAGRAM Ref:1v01 B 24-01-13...

  • Page 17: Session Recall Sheet

    DS101 - Noise Gate for 500 Series Systems...

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