Hey Chris, A gate acts almost like an on off switch for whatever audio you run through it. When the gate is closed, you won't hear the audio on that track. When the gate is open, audio passes through untouched. Probably their most common use is on individual drum tracks to minimise bleed between microphones. Taking toms for example, you might put a gate plugin on each of your tom tracks so that the audio only passes when a tom is actually being hit, the gate would be closed the rest of the time to cut out the weird overtones and junk you'll get coming through that microphone from a tom ringing away to itself as the rest of the kit is being thumped in close proximity to it. The controls on a gate are usually pretty similar to what you'd find on a compressor plugin, so you'll have a threshold that sets a level for when the gate is to open, an attack which sets how fast it opens, decay setting how quickly it'll close when the audio drops back below the threshold level etc.
In the case of your vocal, I figured the miscelaneous bits of noise I could pick out would've been a lot quieter than your actual singing, so instead of going through and editing the track, you might be able to get away with cheating and slapping a gate on to do the job instead. In this instance, you'd probably want it on an insert before any compression, because the compression will likely be diminishing the volume difference between the unwanted background noises and your full singing voice. It's been a while since I used PT now, but I think you'll find a gate in the dynamics plugin menu if you want to give it a shot. Tbh, dividing any dead space when you're not singing into regions and muting or deleting those regions would be the textbook way to approach this, but sometimes gating to clean up can be a real time saver for lazy people like me lol. Hth Scott On 5/18/13, Chris Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Scott, what is a gate? I've never heard of that. Can you explain to me > what I'd wanna maybe try? > > Chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Chesworth" <scottcheswo...@gmail.com> > To: <ptaccess@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:23 PM > Subject: Re: Oops? Here's the link to the recording > > > Hey Chris, > > Liking the vocal sound overall man, seems like it's developed a lot > since the last time I remember you posting something on here. > > One suggestion would be to go through and delete the audio whenever > there's long stretches of silence on that vocal track. I noticed a few > lip smacks and other odd little sounds of you getting ready to sing > during gaps in the instrumentation. You might be able to get away with > a gate on the track instead of editing, but either way, cleaning up > those gaps would help some. Oh, probably put that gate pre-compression > if you do try that instead of editing the vocal track. > > Sounding good dude, keep it up. > > Scott > > On 5/18/13, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net> wrote: >> Strange. Here the link doesn't work at all. Is it maybe just to open from >> the US? >> All the best >> Jürgen >> Am 18.05.2013 um 21:49 schrieb Sean A. Cummins <seanacumm...@gmail.com>: >> >>> Dear Chris, >>> >>> I didn't have time to read your previous email lacking the link you >>> have >>> provided in this one. But I did now click on the link for this song. >>> >>> As I bitterly weep, I am writing this email to you, or to who ever wrote >>> this song. Admittedly, I have heard better productions, but I have not >>> felt this much emotion or wept like this in years from a song. Please >>> don't misunderstand my comment, it is meant to convey, that the most >>> important component of any great song, it the ability to invoke deep >>> emotion in the listener. Congratulation! >>> >>> At this current cross road of my life, this song has struck the ultimate >>> cord of my heart. Young parents, and my children won't fully understand >>> right now, but if and when, one day they walk this walk, they will cry >>> too. >>> >>> All I can say is thank you, from an empty nest dad..! >>> >>> Take Care, >>> >>> Sean >>> seanacumm...@gmail.com >>> (928) 301-0518 >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: Chris Gilland >>> To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com >>> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2013 10:08 PM >>> Subject: Oops? Here's the link to the recording >>> >>> My fingers got ahead of my brane. I forgot to paste the link to that >>> recording I mentioned in my last mail. 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