Quick Mixing/ProTools Question

[peritus]

I am reading this article:

https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=195784

I am not sure how to setup the situation mentioned in the paragraph in red..

Please help..

Thanks!!!

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A REAL KICK

When working with fully acoustic drum-kit tracks, the kick is one of the most difficult instruments in urban styles. Dye has a winning formula. “First, I call up DUY's DaD Valve,” he says. “It's an amazing plug that emulates tube saturation. I actually use the Snare setting on the kick as it adds a nice punch to the lows and has good high mid definition. Not every kick requires Valve, but when they can benefit from an added chunkiness, I'll use it with the input set for the right amount of saturation, sometimes backing it off to — 2 or — 3 dB.”

Using Waves C1 Gate, Dye then contours the length of the kick and cleans up the sound to make room for the top-end EQ that is applied later. His settings are as follows: Attack to 0.07 ms; Hold to 125 to 200 ms (the faster the tempo, the shorter the time); Release to 30 ms; and the Floor (dB of gating) at — 15 to — 20 dB to clean up the leakage, leaving some behind to maintain the live ambience and realism.

“I trigger my kick with a copy of the kick-drum track that is advanced 3 ms,” says Dye. “This creates a look-ahead gate and prevents the annoying click when a gate opens if it is triggered by the original track.”

 

[MessianicDreams]

what you need to do is copy the kick drum onto a new track. then shift this new kick 3ms forwards. either setup the output, or use a send to get this signal to a buss. then in your gate, select use an external key, and set the key source to be the buss you're sending the copied kick to. if you're not sure it's working, throw something else apart from a kick into the new track, and the press "key listen" on your plug. you should then be listening to whatever's in the copied kick track.

some plugs have a look-ahead setting on them anyways, where you can set the look-ahead amount in sample (generally). i've only ever seen this in Logic, but i'm sure tere's a Tools plug out there that can do this.

 

[peritus]

Thanks you very much... I'll let you know how it turns out.. When I get a chance to try it out...

Thanks again!