5 Minutes To A Better Mix: Gating Drums - TheRecordingRevolution.com

Part 5 of 31 - In this video I show you how to use gates and expanders to clean up your drum tracks, minimize microphone bleed, and free up headroom in your mix.

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[mimoocho]

HI , if one isn't a flash instrument player and wants to record a Pass in Protools at say, half speed, how can thast be done? I know that Logic has this feature.

Thanx.

[recordingrevolution]

If you hold SHIFT and SPACEBAR pro tools will playback at half speed, so perhaps holding SHIFT and record will do the same.

[radekxito]

Dude ! I'm digging that snare sound! Can you tell me what snare drum did you used? And what mic etc. ? send me a message or something plz =).

Respect to your work.

[recordingrevolution]

I actually didn't record this track so I have no idea what snare or mic was used.

[islowmusic]

hey i'm just curious, and sorry if this is a stupid question, but what does the range knob do exactly on a gate? ._.

[recordingrevolution]

Not stupid at all. It tells the gate how much to slam down on (or close) the gate. The higher the ration, the tighter it closes off the audio.

[Renatoo Medeiros]

man that is so helpful, thanks!!!

[KaslarProductions]

This is probably only a very minority of people, but since I among this group I will share my fix. I use ableton which doesn't have a built in expander. Found a free one for PPC macs called the Floorfish Expander. I love it and it works great.

[Plasticsoul]

You are both right. It just depends on what the song/track dictates.

[Joseph Kim]

So excited to go home and try the Expander. I always used the gate on the snare, and it gated all the ghost notes and other necessary hits, so I was very frustrated.. Hopefully, I get a better snare sound now! Check out my videos for drum tracks.. Any advices will be very appreciated!

[jkunblade]

You wouldn't need it if the samples you were using didn't have any bleed happening.

[eddymdr]

Would you suggest gating even if you use programmed drums?

[Dovydas Rokas]

goooood bye volume automation

[Matt Carr]

Since you have all those percussion channels available to you, can I assume there are several mics on that drum kit or just one? still getting familiar with miking drums

[John Le]

If you used a VST plugin and played drums via synth this isn't needed right?

[joe0404]

The gate dictates how much gain reduction the gate will do when its gating. It basically sets a limit to the amount of gain reduction.