Drum Mic Tutorial - Part 6: Noise Gates

This video explains how noise gates can clean up a drum mix, and concludes the Drum Mic Tutorial.

***Higher quality audio***
Be sure to watch these videos in HD, because there is a significant improvement in sound quality over standard definition - however, YouTube's codec processing has recently started really muddying up the lower end frequencies (like the bass drum and floor toms), so HD sound is still not as good as the source file. Check out this link if you want to hear the audio at its best: http://vimeo.com/10619932

If you are already familiar with certain aspects of this tutorial, feel free to skip around to other parts using these links:

Introduction - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvqLVo_HeqU

Part 1: Equipment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRCJQosS-7M

Part 2: Mic Placement - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp1LEhZMITE

Part 3: Recording Preparation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8BIJEbV9mY

Part 4: EQ Settings - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZfwjISwNao

Part 5-1: Compression and Reverb - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwxf3Zmdh2g

Part 5-2: Compression and Reverb - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFKzbbX5uOo

I hope you have enjoyed these videos, and more importantly I hope they have helped you become better at recording drums!

Background music: "Stream of Consciousness" by Dream Theater

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[edjorthebeast]

Thank you for these videos

[SnareSpectre]

@edjorthebeast

No problem, glad I could help out!

[camojez]

a fair coment and thank you for your reply.i managed to get a profesional sound man to come over to the rehersal room and he set the gates to whot he thought would be ok.on the gig night i just had to turn down the threshold to stop bleed to other mikes and i was amazed at the differance the gates made.it tightend the kit and stopped all the after undesirable boing if you get my drift.thanks again and ceep up the brill work you are putting in to help others.cheers jez

[SnareSpectre]

@camojez

Thanks! I'm really glad you found these helpful....I like the way you described the effect (tightened the kit); it fits very well. I can't imagine recording without them now that I use them!

[camojez]

once again a fantastic tutorial.it would be great if you can put up a ball park vidio showing the settings you use for say toms and kik drum.

[SnareSpectre]

@camojez

I considered this, but I really think it will vary so much depending on the mics, interface, gain settings, software, etc that you use that my settings likely wouldn't be anywhere close to what you'd end up using - EQ is different, so I tried to give ballpark settings for those, but I think it's best to just do trial and error with noise gates.

Thank you for the kind words!

[unnombremuydificil2]

These videos really help me a lot! I'm just an enthusiastic, with no professional knowledge, I work with my own experience and with the stuff that I learn thanks to videos like this. There were some points in EQ and noise isolation that I've never thought about. This is a really useful and understandable video. I liked the way you explained all stuff, step by step. Thank you so much!

[SustainableChaosDrum]

Great videos, I'm just getting into sound recording and they're really helping me out. Just a quick question though, I see you using a Presonus firepod FP-10 in these vids. Would you recommend it ? Because I read some reviews where people said they were having issues with it not syncing on random occasions, and then syncing back randomly. How is it working out for you, because I am thinking of purchasing it to record my drums.

[jice9395]

gates r AWESOME!!!!!

[oN1NJ4o]

fantastic set of videos thx. on a side note; that's a cheeky dmt in the tags of the video

[VanDahh]

thanks

[gusarmstrong]

I saw all of your drum recording tutorial videos, amazing videos man, you did an awesome job, esepcially with the drawings, keept it up!

[semiLivedj]

Wow! You make me understand!

[JKnighticus]

The diagrams are nice man, you explain things well, and I think you should be a sound production teacher somewhere. The drums sound good man, can you post a video on how to tune drums for recording? or is there already one you've posted