TC-Helicon VoiceLive Rack Full User's Manual - Manual (Page 18)

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The Tone Button
only briefly required and it then gets out of the
way allowing the silky brightness to remain on the
voiced portion of your singing.
There is only the single DE-ESS control; no other
manual adjustment settings are required. The
factory setting of 50% gently reduces sibilance
without becoming obvious. Higher settings of
compression and Shape or a bright, sibilant voice
may require a higher setting.
f GATE
When set to the factory default of ADAPTIVE,
the GATE control on the Tone Edit screen helps
in two very important ways by:
1. Minimizing feedback
2. Reducing the amount of audible effects pro-
cessing on sounds entering the mic other than
your voice.
A typical, fixed gate works by shutting off, or
reducing the level of any signal below a thresh-
old that you set. When you sing louder than that
threshold, the gate will open and your vocal will
come through the PA. When you aren’t singing,
the gate will close and block sounds around you.
The Adaptive Gate in VoiceLive Rack works au-
tomatically with your singing style to provide the
optimum balance between how loud you have to
sing to open the gate and how much other noises
are reduced.
For troublesome audio environments, or for
those who are familiar with setting manual gate
parameters, there is also a MANUAL setting on
this page.