Ode to Presonus ACP88.
Because you are eight channels of compression AND gate, and because some house techs can only imagine themselves compressing AND gating every drum on stage, and because your gates are more useable than those combo gates that DBX provides (DBX 166, 1066, etc.), and because you come in at about $70 per channel...
I vote you as my most disliked product. In my world, every venue and every rig I work seems to have one of you - and yet only 2 to 4 channels of other dynamics available. Thus, I must use you.
I can see your blue face from miles away. My fingers tremble with the tactile sensation of your knobs that click as they turn. Aside from amplifier gains, no knob should click while it turns. (My digital feedback circuits are intact and working fine, thank you very much. I can tell when a knob that I am turning is turning.)
I anticipate my arrivial to your backside with a quick check to set all of the level switches in the uniform setting...as I expect that during safe transport to the venue, various insert snakes have played friendly with your switches while bouncing down the road.
Yet, for instances where I must compress on a stereo subgroup pair, you cannot provide me with two channels of similarly behaving dynamics. Or even one channel where UNITY GAIN means UNITY GAIN. By the way, UNITY GAIN MEANS UNITY GAIN.
DBX 166 or 160 with push switches that don't work, I'll take you all day long and simply use a dedicated gate when I actually need one. You realize that quick wedding reception soundchecks allow me time to troubleshoot at most, two small sonic issues. Dynamics should not be one of them, and certainly not both.