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Just looking for some tips and tricks on using gated reverb, mainly on percussion.

Things I've found personally:

Use a very short release and slight hold time to gel a drum track.
Use a short to mid release to get the future garage stick sound and a shorter hold time for rolling hats.

time the gate so that it's working at some sort of rhythmic speed-- 1/16, 1/8, etc.

Sharmaji wrote:time the gate so that it's working at some sort of rhythmic speed-- 1/16, 1/8, etc.

That's a pretty useful tip, just been messing around doing that

It sounds good.

I've done this just recently. My snare had a rather big/roomy reverb on it for about 5 seconds (way too long, obviously), I threw a gate on there so that just before the next kick comes in, the reverb kind of phases out of existence. It's like a reversed side chain. hehe. Created quite a nice, almost bouncy effect actually, which I quite liked.

amphibian wrote:I've done this just recently. My snare had a rather big/roomy reverb on it for about 5 seconds (way too long, obviously), I threw a gate on there so that just before the next kick comes in, the reverb kind of phases out of existence. It's like a reversed side chain. hehe. Created quite a nice, almost bouncy effect actually, which I quite liked.

*stealing idea now*

That's used tons in hardstyle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL3yZWZhOGk
@0:40 in

Assassin wrote:Just looking for some tips and tricks on using gated reverb, mainly on percussion.

Things I've found personally:

Use a very short release and slight hold time to gel a drum track.
Use a short to mid release to get the future garage stick sound and a shorter hold time for rolling hats.

Why gated?

serox wrote:Why gated?

Google: Hugh Padgham.

and see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gated_reverb

...which has a basic description of the analog and digital approaches, respectively.

Also, SoS bit that touches on it (but page format is wonky):

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_ar ... fects.html