lichtlaerm pedals LICHTLAERM AUDIO The Key and The Gate

lichtlaerm pedals LICHTLAERM AUDIO The Key and The GateLichtlaerm Audio's The Key and The Gate is at first glance just a noise gate although it's one that's ideally suited to heavier genres of music thanks to its 3 way Response toggle, allowing you to fine tune the attack and delay characterstics of the noise gate to suit heavy chugging, or to let those searing solos sing. The Key By plugging your guitar into the side mounted input, and continuing the signal chain from the side mounted output, you can

Lichtlaerm Audio's The Key and The Gate is at first glance just a noise gate - although it's one that's ideally suited to heavier genres of music thanks to its 3-way Response toggle, allowing you to fine-tune the attack and delay characterstics of the noise gate to suit heavy chugging, or to let those searing solos sing.

The Key

By plugging your guitar into the side-mounted input, and continuing the signal chain from the side-mounted output, you can make use of the pedal's "Key" - the pedal splits your signal internally and uses your unaltered guitar-signal as a reference for its gating: absolutely no tone sucking and no loss of sustain!

As the gate uses your pure guitar-signal, you can leave it always on - it really doesn´t care if you are using a distortion pedal or not. And as an added bonus, this effective utility pedal is super-easy to dial in, with just one knob.

You can even inject another signal into the Key input to control the Gate, giving you unlimited opportunities for side-chain operation in the studio or live.

The Key and The Gate controls

There's not much to say here: the Threshold dial adjusts at what level the noise gate kicks in, while the 3-way Response toggle tightens up or loosens off the gating attack and decay.

Every parameter of The Key and The Gate is defined by an envelope follower, ensuring it's an incredibly transparent solution. The Gate reacts super-fast to any changes in your input signal, from staccato to long, sustained notes.

The Key and The Gate demos

The Key and The Gate features

• Noise gate ("Gate") with additional side-chain ("Key") capability
  
• Top-mounted jacks for the noise gate; side-mounted jacks for the side-chain
• 3-way Response toggle to fine-tune attack and delay characteristics of noise gate
• Lichtlaerm Audio Smart Relay technology
• True Bypass
• Fully analog circuit design
  
• Made in Germany
• Power: 9V centre-negative (not included)