Operation Manual
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The Tone  Button 
only briey 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, xed 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. 
