what setting do you guys usually use and what plug ins would work best. I miced the snare with a Heil-PR40...and just cant seem to get everything out of the track....im using an eq-compress then just a buss of verb. should i gate the snare frist then eq? or eq-compress-gate? if anyone could help thanks....
Trouble with gating this damn snare...
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smy1
Member
Don't gate, but duck the rest of the track! It sounds more natural!
Otherwise clean it up manually.
Otherwise clean it up manually.
KeithTidd
Robot Penis.
gates/duckers should come before compression. I wouldn't gate a snare completely. Duck it like smy1 says.
What do you guys mean when you say "duck it?" That to me sounds like some sort of sidechaining, but I can't figure what...
KeithTidd
Robot Penis.
expander. I suppose "duck it" is the wrong way of saying it. The expander(gate) will open when the transient is above the threshold, but the gate is never fully closed. everything below the threshold is attenuated.
Ah ok, so it's like a compressor vs. a limiter then; a question of how extreme the effect is. I wonder if Reaper has a built in expander...
Melodeath
Moonbow
Yes, Gate is just the extreme version of Expander, just as Limiter is extreme version of Compressor. I don't know what Reaper has, but you can essentially turn a gate plugin into an expander if it's got a "depth" fader/knob.
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