At the risk of sounded like a compete novice-the new digital mixers give me a lot of tools I never had before-some are not well documented or maybe I am looking in the wrong place.
On my SQ the parameters are: attack, hold, release, threshold and depth. The two I am not understanding are hold and release. I am using these primarily in two places-piano mics and pulpit and the main issue is having the gate come "on" in between words-or soft/slow places on the piano. I want the gate to open and stay open even if a speaker has short pauses between words-not necessarily intentional pauses but just hesitation pauses. The main reason for the gates in the first place is to cut down on extraneous ambient noise pre-service in vestibule/livestream feeds.
Define what hold and release Actually do?