gating drums

[Falopo]

Hey, im new to recording drums, and i was wondering what gating techniques you guys use. What drums or mics do you gate, and what setting you use? thanks for any suggestions.

[BrettB]

the only things I sometimes gate are tom mikes, because a drummer often doesn't use them and they give a lot of crosstalk.

I gate non of the other microphones, because they are to essential to me and gating them would makes it sound to unnatural in my opinion

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[dr.colossus]

i dont really like gating drums at all, but i have used it on bass drum to get that "triggered" effect... with the way my kit is set up, and my style of playing gates just don't work... its just my opinion, but i would only really use gates if the drummer was the kind of guy whose style could easily be replaced by a drum machine

[Light]

IF I use them, which depends greatly on the style, I use triggers to key the gates. It works great. I talked about it in THIS thread.


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[fenix]

You shouldn't need to trigger a gate if you have a really good gate.

[Light]

Originally posted by fenix
You shouldn't need to trigger a gate if you have a really good gate.

Need is not the issue. It does a much better job of cutting out the other drums. I started doing this with Drawmers and the built in gates on SSLs. Very good gates indeed. It is a different technique, with different results. It is not a need, but an option.


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[Chibi Nappa]

The only time I ever gate is when I'm drowning the snare in reverb, and I don't want to get any reverb on anything else that spilled into the snare mic. I really don't gate much at all, and avoid it whenever possible.