Line 6 Bass POD xt Live User Manual - MIDI Manuals

Stomp, Mod & Delay/Verb Models • GateGate6 • 2The Gate effect helps eliminate unwanted noise when you’re not playing, and can beespecially valuable when using high gain sounds. Like a security gate, it’s supposed toquickly open to pass the things that you want, and then swing closed to keep out thethings that you don’t want. Turn the THRESH all the way down to minimum to disablethe Gate (THRESH’s value will then be OFF, as shown above). The THRESH knobdetermines how loud your playing has to be to open the gate. More negative numbers(where the knob is near its fully-counterclockwise setting) mean that the gate willopen and allow sound through even when you are playing quietly, and less negativenumbers (where the knob is near its fully-clockwise setting) mean that the gate willonly allow sound to pass when you are playing pretty hard. The DECAY knobdetermines how fast the gate will swing closed. Like a gate in the real world, a fastdecay means the gate might catch your trailing foot as you pass through—in this case,that means the gate will chop off the decay of your notes. And a slow decay meansthat as the gate swings slowly closed behind you, someone might have time to slipthrough behind you—in this case, that would be the unwanted noise that you hear asyour notes decay. You’ll have to experiment with the DECAY to get just the righthappy medium for your particular bass, playing style, and sound settings.