enemyofthesun
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Can gating only be done pre tape/harddrive? OR is there away to do this later on a DAW?
Gating drum tracks that are already recorded?
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Slackmaster2K
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You can do it after the fact with a gate plugin.
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cordura21
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he's right. Gates are to expanders what limiters are to compressors.
There's also the poor's man gate, that is automating volume or muting, with the pencil tool is easy. I also saw in a big studio the operator actually erasing the parts he wanted to gate in his Protools. These two approaches are a drag, but they are also more precise.
You're DAW will surely have a free gate plugin, and it will surely work either in realtime or batch.
Cheers, ANdrés
There's also the poor's man gate, that is automating volume or muting, with the pencil tool is easy. I also saw in a big studio the operator actually erasing the parts he wanted to gate in his Protools. These two approaches are a drag, but they are also more precise.
You're DAW will surely have a free gate plugin, and it will surely work either in realtime or batch.
Cheers, ANdrés
Fantastic_Mad
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I have a question to go along with this, so when you use a gate in realtime, it cuts out the frequencies that you set it to, right? (like for hum?) And if you were to use a gate plugin after recording, it would just mute everything at the frequencies you set, right?
cordura21
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well, compressors and gates primarily don't work on certain frequencies, they work on the whole spectrum.
There special ones (multiband compressors) that can divide the spectrum. I don't know any multiband gate, but maybe there are.
You can also make a poor's man multiband dynamic procesor (gate, limiter, compressor, expander) by dividing the frequencies with an equalizer or a bandpass filter, and then placing the plugin after that. That way it'll work on the frequency tha you dial on the filter.
You can also use a a filtered sidechain signal to trigger the processor. I thing de-essers work this way.
One nice trick with gates to fatten kicks: put a signal generator with a sine wave of low frequency behind a gate. Then trigger the gate with the original kick (you can use a filtered sidechain for that). That way both will sound in sync and it will fatten up the original.
And I don't think there is a difference in how realtime and nonrealitme processors work. Although there are some tricks you can play, for example you can copy your audio and shift it earlier and use it as the sidechain or trigger of the processor. That way you can simulate a lookahead effect, if your processor doesn't have it.
CHeers, Andrès
There special ones (multiband compressors) that can divide the spectrum. I don't know any multiband gate, but maybe there are.
You can also make a poor's man multiband dynamic procesor (gate, limiter, compressor, expander) by dividing the frequencies with an equalizer or a bandpass filter, and then placing the plugin after that. That way it'll work on the frequency tha you dial on the filter.
You can also use a a filtered sidechain signal to trigger the processor. I thing de-essers work this way.
One nice trick with gates to fatten kicks: put a signal generator with a sine wave of low frequency behind a gate. Then trigger the gate with the original kick (you can use a filtered sidechain for that). That way both will sound in sync and it will fatten up the original.
And I don't think there is a difference in how realtime and nonrealitme processors work. Although there are some tricks you can play, for example you can copy your audio and shift it earlier and use it as the sidechain or trigger of the processor. That way you can simulate a lookahead effect, if your processor doesn't have it.
CHeers, Andrès