Vesta-Kozo DG3

Category: Products / fx & processors / audio gate
Added: 20-Sep-01 | Author: admin
New price: discontinued | S/H price: £80 - £150 s/h
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Vesta-Kozo DG3
The 'Vesta Kozo' brand is now defunct - 'Vestax' is now the marketing brand-name for the company, and you'll know them mostly now from their DJ equipment - But back in the old days (creak groan), in the late 80's and early 90's they made a few rack fx, and this one, the DG3 'Dual Gate' was their stereo noise gate... and it is great!I use this gate all the time for both standard gating and for trigger gating effects and it performs well across the board so look out for this baby in the s/h free-ad's cos it is a bargain gate.
The DG3 is configured as two dedicated mono gates with a switching i/o for setting them both to sync for stereo operation.
Each gate has Threshold (-48 - +4db), Attack (0.3 - 20ms), & Release (0.02 - 25 seconds) - Each gate section also has a large easy to get at In/Out switch with a red OFF indicator LED and an accompanying green Activity LED to show the gate opening and closing when in use labelled 'reduction'.
Further to this each gate has a TRIGGER switch, to switch in any added trigger input so that this controls the gate opening rather than the Threshold control setting.
Finally the power on/off is on the right and the stereo switch i/o section to link both sides for stereo operation is located on the far left of the unit.
The DG3 is 1u rack size and has a proper mains cable & mains fuse.
Round the back you get 1/4" connectors for the audio IN & OUT and for the Trigger IN's to feed the unit with your choosen Gate control signal. Interestingly there is also a pair of minijack 'GATE-OUT' socket's which will send out a gate trigger when the gate opens in normal use... so those could come in useful to gate other items such as a synth etc...
The DG3 looks quite cheezy in an 80's way, rather like say an old delay unit from Roland around the TR909 & JX3P era, with bright coloured Logo's and texts and large coloured switches etc.... but don't let it fool you that this unit is a toy cos it doesn't look all super-techno... this is a great noise gate for the electronic studio where things like key-input filtering etc isn't really required - So if you see one in the free-ad's DEFINATELY check it out... a classic.... very fast, Jap made, reliable, looks great & 'retro' as anything... a bargain gate!!...
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