why do people "Gate" their drums?
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Greg Savage
Ehh Fuck you
ill o.g.
for a Specific Feel
Some Drum patterns would sound Stupid with its natural Delay So they have to have there Release Cut Short... Some gated. its all for a Feel
Some Drum patterns would sound Stupid with its natural Delay So they have to have there Release Cut Short... Some gated. its all for a Feel
Greg Savage
Ehh Fuck you
ill o.g.
N.U.G. said:
Some do yes me i just Shorten up the Decay
other reasons why People use Gating depends.. for certain feels thats all.. play around with the gate
Some people Gate Shit to get Noise out .. alot u can do with a gate
bigdmakintrax
BeatKreatoR
I will give you a little hint at the end of this, gating works good for instance if you have not sampled a clean 1 shot hit from a record or other source sometimes, that may either have some background effect etc that you do not want...since I am a drummer I can tell you that gating drums started in studio recording of drummers, sometimes kicks and snares in a studio have a very long decay and create untuned harmonics you might not want in the recording so a gate is used to cut it off...another approach that is an alternative to gating is I process samples in soundforge that either I do not want a long decay or maybe that contain a background instrument and I cannot find a clean 1 shot on the record, I use an envelope on it , I have being using envelopes on my drums for awhile if you mess around with it enough you can lift a snare or kick out of a mix that you would normally not use......
MGTheFuture
ILLIEN
ill o.g.
Whats the best way or thing to use to gate drums....do you drum each sound or the whole pattern ?
how ?
how ?
Greg Savage
Ehh Fuck you
ill o.g.
i Do each Drum Seperate.. is no best thing to use ..
Steel Side
ILLIEN
ill o.g.
DaSon, you can buy a gate/compressor which is hardware, or you can use some software integrated into your hardware, or there are software applications. Yeah, kinda confusing, but all hardware is software loaded in memory on a "portable" unit. Out
MGTheFuture
ILLIEN
ill o.g.
in other words
where is the gate on FL and Reason 3
where is the gate on FL and Reason 3
Steel Side
ILLIEN
ill o.g.
I don't know, i don't use those programs. I don't use any software right now. Ask Fade, he might know. Out
DJ Increment
ILLIEN
ill o.g.
so they say that when you gate the snare ......your creating space...silence ...between stuff ...creating rhythm......N.U.G. said:
Word, cuz it started with hardware anwyways.....Personally, i usually do like NNXT said also, and simply shorten the sound to the desired length rather then gating on the regular, tho on rare occasions i do use a verb-gate....like he said, its all for feel...
Formant024
Digital Smokerings
ill o.g.
You create more headroom with a gate on the drums, hiphop specificly is mostly dry drums with very little reverbs. In that you have more headroom giving the rest in the mix more definition.
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Equality 7-2521
Guest
commonly used to get rid of spill (so you have more control over the drum sounds at mixdown) from drum recordings. also commonly used to get rid of unwanted low level background noise like hiss etc.
Steel Side
ILLIEN
ill o.g.
Yea Solace, I gate my drums as well, but I'm not using any specific software titles at the moment. Thanx for backin me up.
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