Opposite of noise gate?

[abowyerlowe at mindscape.com]

>Hi all.  I just bought a compressor/gate recently and after playing with it I
>thought it'd be cool to have a gadget which did the opposite of a noise gate. 
>That is, instead of the gate opening when triggered, the gate would close. 
>I'm thinking it'd be interesting to hook it up to the trigger out of a drum
>machine to produce choppy stuttering-type effects.

The simple way to do this without *any* diy at all?

You need two noise gates... Put your drum machine into the external key of the 
first, and put a constant tone into the input of the first... (In the UK an easy
way to get a constant tone is to leave your 'phone off the hook).

Then put the output of the first gate into the key input of the second, and the 
real signal into the audio input of the second gate...

Voila! An inverse noise gate... Modular logic wins again...

Regards,
Anthony.
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