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Originally Posted by studilaroche  Yes. In the analog realm, it's hard to beat a Drawmer DS201. Great filters and control. In the digital realm, I find that just about any gate is fine; I typically use the stock Digi Gate - the older one. In fact, I had one on a kick drum earlier, really emphasizing the punch and attack of the kick. Gates are one area I don't need much 'vibe/color'. A gate that works properly will either give it to you or it won't. In my experience.
Sometimes I'll go through and edit out noise/space between tom hits/etc, but sometimes it's groovier to use a gate. Lately, it's been a lot more gates. Whatever gets 'the' sound, right?
Ben |
In LE at least, the older Digi gate doesn't induce latency, the new one does.
Personally I edit tom hits, use gates occasionally on kick snare, and edit vocals by hand.
Never liked strip silence.
To the OP - if you find yourself doing a lot of editing kick/snare by hand, but find gating too inconsistent (ie you can't find the right threshold level) you could try a hybrid approach - set a fairly lightly triggered gate, and only edit out the unwanted bits that "pop" through the gates.
Be aware though that using gates can change the transients of the sound quite a bit (hence others talking about using them to add punch etc) - which may be a good or bad thing.