Do you always gate your kick mic channel?

[Seafroggys]

the harmonics of the song

Yeah I use my high frequency analyzer to figure out the harmonics before I make any decision regarding gating, compression, etc.

 

[FOHDAW]

It depends on the kick drum and the rest of the kit. If the kit is loose and resonant (I call that sloppy...) then yes I'll use gates to create a new envelope.

 

[BroKen_H]

This is a very informative thread. Thanks all for sharing these techniques and such.

 

[BroKen_H]

I don't think you 'always' do anything. It depends on what sound you want, the harmonics of the song, how things are miced and so on. I've done both.

I always turn on the computer if I want to record!

 

[Mo Facta]

I don't think you 'always' do anything. It depends on what sound you want, the harmonics of the song, how things are miced and so on. I've done both.

Sorry, not to stir things up here, but please explain to me what you mean by the bolded bit?

I've never ever considered harmonics when selection compression. I might use some sort of HPF/LPF/BPF for manipulating the detector, but it seems strange to me to consider harmonics when applying compression.

Cheers

 

[RAMI]

I like Jell-O.

 

[BroKen_H]

But I don't ALWAYS like Jell-O. Nor do I consider harmonics when eating it

 

[Dogbreath]

I like Jell-O.

The "kinder, gentler" RAMI.

 

[RecordingMaster]

I gate. Less rumble/mud/junk even if not that audible in the mix it just makes me feel better and is a hell of a lot easier to compress and eq with more freedom.

Or I could give you some kind of BS answer like "I never process anything on drums. No eq, no compression, no gates, hell no fader even!" But then again I guess jazz exists! ha!