Farview
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I only had to use a gate once, and that was with manual editing.
Recorded my bass drum with an At4047, got tons of cymbal bleed, no way to get rid of it, definitely noticeable on the overall mix and I couldn't mix the bass drum without it affecting the cymbals in an obvious way. So I had to cut it out for every god damn bass drum note. Which is a lot.
Most daws have a 'detect silence' function that will get you in the ballpark and at least do all the cutting for you.