Noise Gates 101: What They Do & How To Use Them To Their Fullest
Deployed correctly and they're great, particularly with drums. Deployed incorrectly, however, and a mess can ensue...
By Andy Peters • April 23, 2019Noise gates, usually called just “gates,” are dynamics processors that you use when you want to automatically turn off a channel if the signal is not present.
They perform this magic by “looking” at the input signal, and if it is below a certain level, the gate is closed.
When we say that the gate is closed, what really happens is that the gain of a device in the audio path called a Voltage-Controlled Amplifier (VCA) has been set to minimum.
Because the various signals you might want to gate are all different, most gates provide a handful of control knobs that let you tailor the gate’s action to your liking.
This article will discuss what those knobs are, and how they affect the gate’s response...
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