VST Gate

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I haven't had any luck finding a simple gate. I have some quiet hum on tracks and I want to get rid of it without using the "Noise Reduction" feature because I can sometimes hear the artifacts it creates.

I'm looking for a free VST gate and all I want to do is set the threshold or whatever so that the noise which is at approx. -48dBFS is cut out. Anything higher than that number, can come through. I don't need to set attack, release, etc. I've tried Floorfish and a few others, but combined with me not 100% sure what I'm doing can you guys point me to some links? Thanks.
 
Hmm, nevermind I think. After refreshing my memory by doing some more reading, a gate is more of an on-off switch, so when the guitar starts playing it'll be buried in there. I think I'll stick with my noise reduction plug then.

In this example I had a rough take of an acoustic with strumming from my thumb and then strumming from my pick. The noise reduction plug added all kinds of bad artifacts to the thumb strummed chords, but the pick strummed one is pretty good. I guess I'm being picky.
 
Yeah a gate is either open or closed, so any hum that gets cut off will have guitar in it also below the threshold.
I would retrack if possible.

Eck
 
depending on where the hum is, you might be able to get rid of it with a High Pass filter on the EQ - for guitar, you can get away cutting everything below as high as 150hz depending on what else is in the mix, and what kind of curve the filter makes. You could also do some crazy stuff like find out what frequency the hum is at, and notch out it's fundamental and harmonics ... that takes a lot of time and patience though.

Something to consider before re-tracking - if the hum is in the room you use, try to figure out what is causing the hum in the first place and remove it from the room if you can.
 
Cool Edit 2000 has a pretty good noise reduction feature in it. you can make a noise profile from a recording of that hum, and then it will reduce that noise in the track and it sounds pretty good when used lightly. you might be able to download CE2k on the internet somewhere these days. i bought it way back in the day for like $20 and it was a great program in it's time for the price. i still use it for doing destructive edits and encoding MP3s.
 
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