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Using the noise gate on drums

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Using the noise gate on drums

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Just as we discussed on the video with the noise gate on the guitar, a noise gate is sort of a reverse compressor that can be used to cover up noises and buzzes and coughs or any kind of other low-level voices that were recorded on the track. In this video I am going to show you how to use a gate to clean up your drum tracks. Sometimes the drums actually sound pretty good with leakage from one to another; many times what ends up happening though, it makes some sound kind of muddy, and adding some noise gate to get rid of the rest of the leakage from the drum kit or from other instruments really cleans the sound up a little bit. So let's experiment a bit with adding some noise gates. And the easiest way to hear it is on the snare drum, so let's go over and listen to our snare drum for a second. (music playing) Now what you are hearing here is leakage from the hi-hat, and that's because the easiest placement on a snare drum so the drummer doesn't hit the microphone happens to be close…

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