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Using a multiband gate plugin to tighten your snare drum
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Using a multiband gate plugin to tighten your snare drum

AudiotentTip 285. Using a multiband gate plugin to tighten your snare drum.Gating the sound can make it tighter and appear more percussive. However, applying this to the entire signal does not alwa...

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How to make drums and percussion sound tight using a gate

#AudiotentTip 243. Tight Percussion.Percussion samples might have an excess amount of reverb and delay imprinted into the stem. A good processing technique is to use a gate. This will allow you to...

80'sGated snare reverb

Gated snare reverb

#AudiotentTip 172. Gated Snare Reverb.A great way to make your snares sound larger than life is to use a gated reverb. This sound was extremely popular in the 1980’s and is still heavily used in cu...