{"id":11635,"date":"2013-09-28T15:59:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T19:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=11635"},"modified":"2013-09-28T15:59:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T19:59:58","slug":"sonar-quicktip-gating-unwanted-noise-using-the-new-logical-gateexpander-gx622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2013\/09\/28\/sonar-quicktip-gating-unwanted-noise-using-the-new-logical-gateexpander-gx622\/","title":{"rendered":"SONAR X3 Quicktip: Gating unwanted noise using the NEW logical gate\/expander GX622"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Using the new Blue Tubes Logical Gate\/Expander you now have yet another incredible tool for your day to day projects. A pretty common problem that happens when recording an entire band is noise bleed from other instruments when one stops and another is still playing. \u00a0In this particular case there is quite a bit of drums leaking \u00a0in the quiet parts between chord stops of this piano part. \u00a0Some would argue that throwing a Gate on there can make your signals sound robotic and choke your signal if not set correctly. So, let\u2019s go through a step by step way of setting up your Gate setup correctly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Logical-Gate.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11655\" title=\"Logical Gate\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Logical-Gate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">First start with all of your controls turned to <!--more-->their lowest settings<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Range parameter should be turned up all the way<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Next adjust the Threshold until you can hear the noise floor\/other instruments begin to disappear<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Afterwards, adjust your Attack, Hold and Decay parameters to shape the way the Gate attenuates the unwanted noise, how long it stays open for, and how fast the gate closes.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Faster settings will give a robotic feel so make sure to smoothen out any rigid sounds by making Attack and Decay a bit longer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Track-View-with-Logical-Gate.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11652\" title=\"Track View with Logical Gate\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Track-View-with-Logical-Gate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"408\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a rule I always set the Gate\u2019s threshold first, the Attack and Decay settings next, and then Range so that some of the Gate signals still come through. \u00a0This Range setting is what allows this module the name Gate\/Expander. \u00a0By setting Range anywhere below its highest adjustment, the attenuated unwanted noise between chord hits reduce in volume instead of disappearing all together.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F112708301%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-Ad54P&amp;color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F112708313%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-YEjIM&amp;color=ff6600&amp;auto_play=false&amp;show_artwork=false\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cakewalk.com\/products\/sonar\/default.aspx\">Learn more about SONAR X3 here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the new Blue Tubes Logical Gate\/Expander you now have yet another incredible tool for your day to day projects. A pretty common problem that happens when recording an entire band is noise bleed from other instruments when one stops and another is still playing. \u00a0In this particular case there is quite a bit of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2013\/09\/28\/sonar-quicktip-gating-unwanted-noise-using-the-new-logical-gateexpander-gx622\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SONAR X3 Quicktip: Gating unwanted noise using the NEW logical gate\/expander GX622&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,49,78,52,1],"tags":[1508,1977,1978,1979],"class_list":["post-11635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-products","category-sonar","category-tips","category-sonar-x3","category-uncategorized","tag-expander-gate","tag-nomad-factory-blue-tubes","tag-sonar-x3-producer","tag-sonar-x3-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}