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- Birdinator99
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Can someone be so kind as to explain what a "gate" is (when referring to music production)? I've heard the term "noise gate" before, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing. The definition I've looked up confuses me, and I was wondering if the fine people here at Newgrounds could educate me.
Thanks!
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At 7/30/13 07:20 PM, Birdinator99 wrote: Can someone be so kind as to explain what a "gate" is (when referring to music production)? I've heard the term "noise gate" before, but I'm not sure if that's the same thing. The definition I've looked up confuses me, and I was wondering if the fine people here at Newgrounds could educate me.
Thanks!
A gate will only let sound pass through under some circumstance. For instance, a lot of trance uses rhythmic gating, which only allows sounds through every other beat. Another possibility is to sidechain your gate to another track, so that you're only making sound when another track is also. (Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4T7VOcuQEA#t=27 - the synth is gated and sidechained to the drums).
So that's the basic idea - a gate is an effect that only lets sound through based on some condition.
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A gate is exactly what it sounds like it; a gate. A noise gate stops a signal from passing if it's below a certain dB level you set.
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Gate effect mutes the volume based on pattern to create the most overused trance synth in the world
Something like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpS2FNGnMds&t=3m10s
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Think of it as the opposite of a compressor.
A compressor squashes the loud signals and a gate squashes the quiet ones. The controls are mostly the same although simple gates will only come with a threshold setting because they are designed just to get rid of super quiet noise. Where-as one like in iZotope Ozone allows you to control the ratio as well which gives you more power over your dynamics!
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