Setting the threshold on a noise gate?
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Lasse Lammert
HCAF Blitzkrieg
depends on what you want it to do.
usually I start with the shortest possible attack and release times to set the threshold.
so that it lets the softest hit through (I don't like automating gates, I use a time-advanced trigger track to controll it via sidechain).
after it's set so that it JUST let's the softest hit pass I'll adjust the release to my liking.
usually I start with the shortest possible attack and release times to set the threshold.
so that it lets the softest hit through (I don't like automating gates, I use a time-advanced trigger track to controll it via sidechain).
after it's set so that it JUST let's the softest hit pass I'll adjust the release to my liking.
ahjteam
Anssi Tenhunen
Ok.
Lol, I actually screwed up. I meant to ask about the decay and not the threshold...
I have the decay set on my noise gate at 0%. How will setting it higher affect the way the gate operates?
ahjteam
Anssi Tenhunen
Lasse Lammert
HCAF Blitzkrieg
Ok.
Lol, I actually screwed up. I meant to ask about the decay and not the threshold...
I have the decay set on my noise gate at 0%. How will setting it higher affect the way the gate operates?
"decay"? is that what's usually called the "release" or the "hold"?
release I guess? well, in that case I'd say....
depends.
kick? snare? vocals? fast playing? many other stuff going on? desired tightness? etc
Guitar, slow, doom, sustain, chug.
Definitely not djent or the "modern metal" sound.
Lasse Lammert
HCAF Blitzkrieg
Still, edit it by hand. A gate is just an easy way around editing. It just edits out everything under certain threshold and the other controls determine how quickly it does that I guess you could say.
Threshold: When the input goes under your set threshold, the gate will start to close.
Hold: Amount of time the gate stays open before fading closed.
Release: The fade-out time for the gate to close.
Attack: The fade-in for the gate to open.
Still, edit it by hand. A gate is just an easy way around editing. It just edits out everything under certain threshold and the other controls determine how quickly it does that I guess you could say.
Threshold: When the input goes under your set threshold, the gate will start to close.
Hold: Amount of time the gate stays open before fading closed.
Release: The fade-out time for the gate to close.
Attack: The fade-in for the gate to open.
I'm a little confused. How would you edit out static hum out of a guitar tone?
BLUElightCory
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You can't edit the static/hum out of the guitar while it's being played.
You can, however, edit it out of the pauses when the guitar is not being played. Just delete the space between notes and use short fades to keep it smooth. This is more precise and sounds more natural than using a noise gate.
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Yeah, a noise gate doesn't do any kind of fancy frequency removal or anything like that, it just cuts anything under a certain dB level. The idea is to set the threshold a few dB above the idle hum of your guitar which I find is usually something like -50dB or around there.
reg3n
Señor Miembro
doing it with a gate in a slooooooooooooow heavy mix will make you lose important stuff, unless you set up a perfectly programmed gate or something, so i think it's much better to dedicate that time to correctly edit the source and control everything. In my case, it takes a lot less time, and i'm a lot happier after. BTW, don't think of X-noisers and that kind of shit. Personal advice.
Harley Barley
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you should put a noise gate on the guitar, before you record so have hum from your guitar/amp i mean dont set the threshold really high but high enough so that when you stop playing it cuts the sound.
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Well here are two examples of a guitar recorded w/ and w/o a noise gate.
As you can here, the "nogate" track has a lot of buzz. So much so that it eventually overtakes the chord at the end of the clip.
The "withgate" clip, by contrast, sounds a lot more manageable.
As to why I wouldn't want to add a noise gate to my chain rather than go through the entire track and remove all the buzzing and hissing by hand seems like a little weird to me, not to mention time consuming.
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