Master Class - Audio Mixing - 03 Drum Gates 

@UFHoee Unfortunately I think it's the latter. I'm also suspicious of only 12dB of Range. I mean, yes it's noticeable, but you may as well not even use a gate. I only use 18dB at the lowest and for other things I'll use the full range and go all the way down to the full 60dB. There's one situation that I have where it'd be nice if it went more than that, since I use the Sine Generator and a Gate for fattening up the Kick sound, which is a KILLER trick, if you use an X32 and have never tried it, you're seriously missing out, but when you've got the PA really cranking, and then between songs with no people like during a soundcheck, and it gets really quiet, you CAN still hear that Low Sine wave hummmmmmm even though it's being reduced by 60dB. I mean it's faint, but it's there. It sounds like a semi-truck idling outside 3 blocks away, And I don't REALLY care because you'll never know actually during a show and won't hear it, but the subs are still producing that sound even though it's very quiet so there's going to be some Speaker Distortion and Inefficiencies because of it. Things that I usually work real hard to minimize because it all adds up to a great sound later if you do!

* not all church sound engineers. I'm very sparing my with use of gates and compression

Compressing toms should be a sin.

I’ve never worked with a drummer that wanted more than a kick in their monitor, if that.

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He was on the "Gate" tab, not "Dyn" tab.

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There’s no specific set of buttons and knobs to manipulate. You just need to practice more, and become a better engineer. This job isn’t as easy as just following a set of instructions

That's what soundchecks are for ;-) Kindest regards from a drummer and a sound-engineer?

Shouldn't really gate a snare since there are so many ghost notes played there and cross stick like you mentioned. That's a sign of an inexperienced engineer. I use a snare gate, but the threshold is so low that it's really only closed to reduce unnecessary noise in the PA between songs etc, when nobody is playing. I have a gate on everything for that reason. Like the guitar amps, and even the DI Bass and Keyboard, but again it's so low just to reduce what little noise there is when they're not playing. It's almost unnoticeable on each channel, but when you do that across 24 channels, all those little bits of noise add up fast, even though on the new digital gear it's NOTHING like it used to be with tons of outboard analogue stuff back in the day lol. But, the threshold is so low on those gates, that on my guitar amp when if I switch to my high-gain channel even with the guitar muted, just from the amp hiss opens the Gate lol.

@@djjazzyjeff1232 U absolutely can use gates on the snare. But I would only use a sidechain trigger to gate a snare

@@djjazzyjeff1232 Tell that to the 1980’s. Snares were highly gated in those days.

@@Bobby_Uterus Not live.

It's a behringer x32

If you can’t recognize an X32, fucking retire dude. What a laugh

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It would be exactly the same.

Waveshaping is different

Waveshaping changes the timbre What you're seeing is something a gate, limiter, expander and compressor would use

That would be a useless overlay

smashrhythm Sounds like a sample made with a Beta 91A. It’s important to have that level of definition in a live environment though to be fair

@UFHoee Live sound and studio sound is very different. Thats not how it sounds through the pa. PA systems colour the sound and the rooms can be problematic. There is no bleed because its likely just the drummer recorded playing only kick drum and its been looped Not the best example admitdly as if it was a recording of the drummer playing you would hear the bleed