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Gating audio for creative and musical purposes

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From the course: Music Production Secrets: Larry Crane on Mixing

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Gating audio for creative and musical purposes

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In the previous movie, I showed you how to use audio gates in a standard fashion. We were like cleaning up tracks, cleaning up the noise on reverbs, focusing snare sounds. Now, I'm going to show you how to use an audio gate in a creative manner. I have a track here where I've recorded a Moog synthesizer bass line against some drums. So, here's how it sounds as recorded. (MUSIC). But what I want to hear is that synthesizer pulsing along with the drums. I've set up a hardware gate over here. I had it in bypass mode, so, I'll kick it on. Listen to this. (MUSIC) Now, how is it doing that? Well, it's simply, I'm using the external input. The external input is fed from the (UNKNOWN), from the kick and snare tracks which I have turned up. So, I'm sending kick and snare signals out into the external input of the gate which is triggering the gate to turn off and on. Check this out (MUSIC). (MUSIC) So, that's setting the threshold to where it's not allowing the gate to come on. (MUSIC) At that…

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