Recent DAWs must include noise gates.

I couldn't find it in Sonar 7 Producer, which is quite a full blown production software, until I realised it was simply called "Gate" and not "Noise Gate". Check this in Sonar XL, who knows...

Cubase is an incredible program. My go to easily. Just learn it in small steps, it isn't as daunting as it seems, but as with all software, there is always a learning curve. As for noise gates, my fav is still the ole cut and mute technique. I don't find Noise Gates very musical at all, hence I steer clear of them :)

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First off, thanks to Alan for this project and to the engineers that participated.While there are multiple ways of micing any instrument and everyone has their favorite, I have found that a well tuned drum kit, a dynamic drummer and fewer mics go a long way. These days, for most of the albums I am doing, I am using a modified version of the recorderman set up that was popularized by Glyn Johns among others. I will typically use a kick, snare, high hat, two overheads and a room mic. Here is a video of a different version of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiFOD1EeKhQ. Experiment!!I'm so glad that Sylvia spoke about phase relationship as this is so important. I actually use a cloth tape measure to start with and move the overheads as needed. I will usually place the LDC (I use Peluso P12s which are his version of the C12) about 36-40" above the snare and slightly cheated toward the high hat or kick drum depending on the music. I will place the second overhead over the drummer's right shoulder (right handed drummer) with the capsule the same distance from the center of the snare and pointing right at the middle of the snare head. This is why I use the tape to measure equal distance of the OH mics to the center of the snare drum. Next I place the kick, snare and high hat mic and check the phase relationship with overheads for each one as I place them. I also like to use a dynamic or ribbon mic on the high hat to capture the body of the high hats and allow the overheads and the room mic(s) pick up the the brighter aspects of the high hat.I usually track with no EQ or compression, carefully match mics/preamps and position.Here are my current mics of choice for drums from my locker
Kick Heil PR40
Snare SM57
OHs Peluso P12
HH Coles 4038, Cascade FatHead II or SM57
Room Peluso 2247LE, AT4033, AT4047, Oktava MK012 or Shure KSM32 depending on the music and player.
If a song really needs close mic'd toms MD421

I had all my wheels come off with John2003's comment ????

But I did find a noise gate plugin that came with Sonar XL, Samplitude, my prefered DAW didn't come with one but I can use the Cakewalk one in this program which is cool :). Thinking of buying cubase though as it sounds pritty good.

As for noise gates, my fav is still the ole cut and mute technique. As for noise gates, my fav is still the ole cut and mute technique.

A minor detail is that MIDI automation is illustrated (twice) with automation data that is clearly non-MIDI, as it operates in 10ths of dBs

Well, the afreey drivers can also help you a lot with this kind of problems. I know exactly the problems you have been through and I tell you for sure that it can be solved very easy.

Thanks for all of your sharing here. I am not an expert in this field but Some times I need to do few sound editing for background music in our drama. I use Soundforge and Audacity, both are enough for my purpose. I yet need not to reduce noise from any sound cut and so what kind of apps will serve your purpose is actually unknown to me.

This type of sound recording devices are designed and controlled by a standard PC with the addition of a sound card which provides the input and output interaction with the computer.

have been using "Samplitude & Sonar XL as my choice of D.A.W but both do not come supplied with a noise-gate software application.
I have just searched for a plug-in and only found one that would work called AnalogX noise-gate and was a free downloaded FX plug-in.

Thanks a lot for sharing such a nice informative post. I'm new in sound engineering field. I hope that your posts will help me a lot by providing helpful information. Looking forward to get more cool resources and information. Cloud Computing Security

Honestly you'll get much better results from an outboard gate. Cubase does have internal gates, as does ProTools, but you'll get a much more organic and true sound if you use outboard gear like Drawmer. Of course, this costs money so if you are just looking for easy recording with what you have I would recommend ProTools over Cubase but it honestly comes down to user preference.

Honestly you'll get much better results from an outboard gate. Cubase does have internal gates, as does ProTools, but you'll get a much more organic and true sound if you use outboard gear like Drawmer. Of course, this costs money so if you are just looking for easy recording with what you have I would recommend ProTools over Cubase but it honestly comes down to user preference.
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I'm also learning how to use Cubase. It was slightly overwhelming when I first started using it, but I am quickly catching onto it. It is capable of so much and I can definitely see its potential!

How and where can I get the MIDI plugins that can work for my current Cubase V.4?
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