We rejoin Chris Shepard at Chicago Recording Studios where he gets as excited about the Drawmer DS201 and explaining gating and ducking as I've seen anyone get. That's a good thing, though, because not a lot of people realize how much of an effect these two processes can have on your sound, not only in terms of keeping it clean, but also in terms of spatial enhancement.

I run my apartment through a DS201, and I'm predicting that by the end of 2009, I'll have the most imposing castle on the block (I live on a block with a lot of castles, by the way).