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Thanks breaking down those details on the slate plugin. Since I have had that plugin, I have never thought of tweeking it, but with this explanation, it helps out. Thanks
@@TheMixAcademy While, we are at it, what is your take on the presets of these plugins, in reference to slate digital or any plugins in general? What is your take on it.....thanks in advance. See you in music Land.....
@@BenNwani Presets can be a great starting point! They can also be a good tool to reverse engineer and learn what the intent is for a particular instrument which can help you in dialing in your own sounds in the future. You need to keep gain staging in mind. The preset may have been created with a different level signal than what you send into it. Just something to be aware of...
Another way is to duplicate the track, invert its phase and put a compressor on the inverted track... Works most times even better than the Slate Gate.
When Slate gate was first announced I thought it would have to be something special to take me away from Fabfilter. Well, it was and it did. Especially the drum gate. When dealing with hard and soft hits in one song I simply split the snares or toms on two separate tracks and set the gate appropriately for each track. Easier and quicker than doing the manual thing
Nice! TLA's a beast! That may very well be where the engineer who showed this to me back in the early 2000's got this technique from. Thanks for sharing!
Hi David, Cristian from Argentina. Quick question about the reaper template (I asked this on my account), why are the folders without the I/O to the master off? Isn't it better to have the mix bus folder appear on top of the tracks putting everything there (as an internal subfolders)? Or is it the same? I've been using this template for over two months I think, but sending the folders to the master output. I feel blessed by everything I've learned in your courses (I'm still in it!), and now I'm having a lot of trouble mixing drums with bleed tracks, and it's impossible for me to remove the bleed without resorting to the course method, I've recorded my songs in a studio and to reduce final costs, now I am mixing one of them (guided by the person who has mixed me, mastered some of those songs and gives me returns of what I am sending him, I have not played that mix yet because he it's a friend of mine, and your criticisms are devastating , sincerally but devastating... I prefer to learn before sending you the drum mix) is there a way to use the original tracks without using the other things used in the course? (you know what I mean), and how can I mix a bad drum recording with just one mic (I mean all the drums on one track!), and to top it off with a lot of ambient noise and bad recording! Many of my clients are hard to convince and want the original drums without replacing any sounds (in these types of cases I am not producing, just mixing). Thank you for everything God put me in front of an excellent mentor that is you ...... God bless you David
I wonder if that tom trick would also work with the new Split EQ from Eventide, since looks like it have the same transient/resonant treatment as Slate's Drum gate, but with other functonalities
Does anybody do this on the way in? We tried last night during a session. I had mixed results. Seems like dynamics are really important when gating on the way in.
Ooof! I'd prefer to do it after tracking for that very reason. If it misses hits you're screwed... You could always bus the non-gated toms to a new track and place the gate on that for listening but then you'll have the untouched raw for editing if need be.
@@TheMixAcademy agreed. I had everything working perfectly during sound check. Until the drummer came in haha! And then i turned it all off! But it has me thinking about dynamics. As a guitarist, i play into gates and compressors all the time. Its part of my sound. I’m just curious if there are drummers out there that have a similar kind of control. I’m getting into the habit of making decisions on the way in now that i can record THROUGH plugins. Thnx for the response!!
@@TheMixAcademy just got inflator and drum gate and thought about getting some others in there Fall sale, just built a new pc so funds are a bit tight at the moment, had to do some hard thinking there because of their culmination discounts, but I only paid £68 instead of £272 (British pounds, don’t know what that would be in dollars!), should have got the limiter too but, as I said been giving way too much money out for the new pc build
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Love the tip on low passing to cut out the cymbal bleed while preserving the tom sustain.
Thanks, Aaron!
Thanks breaking down those details on the slate plugin. Since I have had that plugin, I have never thought of tweeking it, but with this explanation, it helps out. Thanks
Ben! I hope you're doing awesome, my friend! Thanks for checking it out!
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While, we are at it, what is your take on the presets of these plugins, in reference to slate digital or any plugins in general? What is your take on it.....thanks in advance. See you in music Land.....
@@BenNwani Presets can be a great starting point! They can also be a good tool to reverse engineer and learn what the intent is for a particular instrument which can help you in dialing in your own sounds in the future. You need to keep gain staging in mind. The preset may have been created with a different level signal than what you send into it. Just something to be aware of...
@@TheMixAcademy
Thanks for the extra info. I appreciate it as always
Another way is to duplicate the track, invert its phase and put a compressor on the inverted track... Works most times even better than the Slate Gate.
When Slate gate was first announced I thought it would have to be something special to take me away from Fabfilter. Well, it was and it did. Especially the drum gate. When dealing with hard and soft hits in one song I simply split the snares or toms on two separate tracks and set the gate appropriately for each track. Easier and quicker than doing the manual thing
Love it! I'm a huge FabFilter fan but you're dead on... It's so much better!
Also Fabfilter Saturn works great! Use the dynamic tool at the minimum on a high crossfade filter. Put the filter starting at 1k.
Lesson starts at4:00
From 3:30 / Great. Thank you 😃
Great demonstration! Thanks David!
Thanks, Luke!
Anyone willing to share how this tom trick can be done in logic pro X
I want to remove snare please more videos
Thanks for watching, Alex!
Crazy tip!! Thought you were gonna low pass the transient for a second haha
Haha!
I don't have it, but I've heard great things about the Sonnox Drum Gate.
Got this from Tom Lord Alge, but I prefer the way you do it by bringing the low pass lower but with a higher slope.
Nice! TLA's a beast! That may very well be where the engineer who showed this to me back in the early 2000's got this technique from. Thanks for sharing!
Liking this tom trick 🤘
Thanks, brother!
Great technique! Does anyone know how one may do this in reaper? Item FX?
Boz Digital gate plugin: Beautiful Door.
Hi David, Cristian from Argentina. Quick question about the reaper template (I asked this on my account), why are the folders without the I/O to the master off? Isn't it better to have the mix bus folder appear on top of the tracks putting everything there (as an internal subfolders)? Or is it the same? I've been using this template for over two months I think, but sending the folders to the master output. I feel blessed by everything I've learned in your courses (I'm still in it!), and now I'm having a lot of trouble mixing drums with bleed tracks, and it's impossible for me to remove the bleed without resorting to the course method, I've recorded my songs in a studio and to reduce final costs, now I am mixing one of them (guided by the person who has mixed me, mastered some of those songs and gives me returns of what I am sending him, I have not played that mix yet because he it's a friend of mine, and your criticisms are devastating , sincerally but devastating... I prefer to learn before sending you the drum mix) is there a way to use the original tracks without using the other things used in the course? (you know what I mean), and how can I mix a bad drum recording with just one mic (I mean all the drums on one track!), and to top it off with a lot of ambient noise and bad recording!
Many of my clients are hard to convince and want the original drums without replacing any sounds (in these types of cases I am not producing, just mixing).
Thank you for everything God put me in front of an excellent mentor that is you ...... God bless you David
I wonder if that tom trick would also work with the new Split EQ from Eventide, since looks like it have the same transient/resonant treatment as Slate's Drum gate, but with other functonalities
I need to check it out! The only question is whether it has a gate built in?
Does anybody do this on the way in? We tried last night during a session. I had mixed results. Seems like dynamics are really important when gating on the way in.
Ooof! I'd prefer to do it after tracking for that very reason. If it misses hits you're screwed... You could always bus the non-gated toms to a new track and place the gate on that for listening but then you'll have the untouched raw for editing if need be.
@@TheMixAcademy agreed. I had everything working perfectly during sound check. Until the drummer came in haha! And then i turned it all off! But it has me thinking about dynamics. As a guitarist, i play into gates and compressors all the time. Its part of my sound. I’m just curious if there are drummers out there that have a similar kind of control. I’m getting into the habit of making decisions on the way in now that i can record THROUGH plugins. Thnx for the response!!
Trying tomorro🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👌🏽
Let me know what you think! :)
@@TheMixAcademy ok great thanks I’ll do so 🙏🏼
@@TheMixAcademy 👌🏽it works I’m using this trick as my go to Tom trick. Thank you very much man 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼👊🏼🤩🤩
@@TheMixAcademy it works 👌🏽I’m using this trick every time it’s going to be my go to Tom trick. Thank you very much man 🤩🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@sifisombebe3318 So pumped to help! Thanks for the support!
Your dope man
The feeling is mutual. 🙏🏻
Slate gate is good, any other good gates out there? How about making a gate shootouts?
Someone just told me about the Oxford Drum Gate... It looks sick as well!
@@TheMixAcademy just got inflator and drum gate and thought about getting some others in there Fall sale, just built a new pc so funds are a bit tight at the moment, had to do some hard thinking there because of their culmination discounts, but I only paid £68 instead of £272 (British pounds, don’t know what that would be in dollars!), should have got the limiter too but, as I said been giving way too much money out for the new pc build
@@murraywebster1228 Nice! The PC is WAY more important. :)
@@TheMixAcademy ASUS X570 ProArt, Ryzen 5950x, 1 & 2 TB Samsung 980 Pro’s, 64 GB G.Skill Ripjaw V 3600 MHz, CL14-14-14-34, Ice Giant ProSiphon cooler , Fractal R2 case…😎 and a Radeon Pro WX 3100 graphic card
Boz Digital's "Big Beautiful Door". Also, Harrison MixBus has a custom Tom gate plugin.
Really? This is The Tom Trick...? You said it in the beginning, the real Tom Trick is have an assistant 😂
Just take SpectraLayers 10 and any bleed is gone.