![]() It learns the pitch of the drum you want to gate, allows you to set the reduction and the threshold as well as do some leveling. Oxford Drum Gate is pretty incredible at removing the cymbals and keeping the natural decay of the drums. I just finished the drum portion of a mix yesterday that has a lot of tom patterns that really needed to be clear but not have cymbal wash in them. The others I tried did not do what I wantedĤ) Oxford Drum Gate - should have skipped right to this one Cymbal Killer was used on a few tracks but has some bugs. My favorite was DMG Track Gateģ) Use a multiband gate with lookahead. So, in my search I've gone though four different processes:ġ) Clip gain and/or cut out all the nasty bits and fade each tom hitĢ) Use a good gate with lookahead. That was probably fine but I can always hear the cuts, even though I do fades on each clip. For the last few album projects, I manually cut the tom hits and then used a gate with a lookahead for the kick and sometimes snare. Still, to get a tight mix, I have to handle cymbal bleed in the tom mics and front of kick. I moved away from the 421's a few years ago and life got a little easier. ![]() I do quite a bit of live drum recordings and as we all know, cymbal bleed has been a real bear to deal with, especially if you used an MD421 on the toms. Every once in a while you run across a tool that makes your life easier. ![]()
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