Does anyone use them on drums anymore? I am going after a more retro drum sound (early 80's feel) I have a well played/recorded drum track, should I use gates on everything or should I just automate out the junk?
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Fox Mulder
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A combination of both, maybe even automating the threshold of the gate according the whatever the part demands.
egan.
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I just automate. The absolute best case scenario with gating is that it's almost as good as automating.
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combination of either SSL duende channel/metric halo/slate trigger gates for me on kick/snare. strip silence or automation otherwise.
never used to use gates much but SSL works great for me these days.
never used to use gates much but SSL works great for me these days.
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depending on the band obviously, I'll address the tom ringing as much as possible at tracking. you can do a surprising amount with tuning/placement/damping to control it. usually the resonant heads with kick that need most attention. you can usually get it to the point where any ringing compliments the overall sound of the kit.
tightening up those kit resonances can really do wonders to the overall sound of the kit.
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crillemannen
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Last time I mixed a good sounding snare I used a sidechain gate triggered by the snaresamples, was still a bit messy on one certain spot in the song where it was allot of hihat, but otherwise then that it works very well.
For toms I always automate, like pusing up the tom channels 6-8db on that certain passage.
And about the "ring".. sustain is crucial to get a good snare and tom sound. Ofc you shouldn't get all St. Anger with it but a nice medium ring makes them pop in the mix and creates depth.
For toms I always automate, like pusing up the tom channels 6-8db on that certain passage.
And about the "ring".. sustain is crucial to get a good snare and tom sound. Ofc you shouldn't get all St. Anger with it but a nice medium ring makes them pop in the mix and creates depth.
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I like to use gates over manually chopping out silence. The trick is to not max out the range to get complete silence, but set it to attenuate 15-20 dB. It keeps the sound a little more natural. Of course there are times that a manual chop will be necessary; sometimes a really low snare hit will pass the threshold in the tom tracks and will sound all sorts of bad.
