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Gates, Expanders and the Art of Silence
How to remove what you do not want between the notes — hysteresis, hold, range, and the key input that turns a gate into a production tool.
Most discussions of dynamics are about what happens to the loud parts. This lesson is about the quiet parts, which is where a surprising amount of a recording's problems actually live: guitar amp hiss between phrases, a headphone click bleeding into a vocal mic, five tom microphones each contributing an open channel of cymbal wash and room to a mix that only needed three tom hits.
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