Gating drums?

So I want to replace our drummer's kick drums using Drumagog. Drumagog is missing a lot of the hits, though, for whatever reason. He has some soft, uneven hits here and there, but even the soft hits are clearly visible above any background noise. I started to go through and manually cut out the in betweens. But that will literally take me about a month to do all of the songs this way. Is there another way to gate on Guitar Tracks?

Hi there Sam

Here are a few free VST's that should do the job for you - I've tried them all out on a drum loop and they all work pretty well - see which does the trick for you:

* The BlueFilter Z mentions is up to the task, as long as the kick drums' frequency is lower than the rest of the kit - CLICK HERE to go to the Blue Line Pack download page - the free download button for the whole set of VST's is at the bottom of the page. With a sample drum loop, I set this up with the HP [High Pass] filter and the 4 pol setting [whatever that is!] and pulled the frequency up until the kick just about disappears, at roughly 340Hz.



* The Antress Modern Painter plug in, available to download FROM HERE does the job equally well - this has a multiband function as well as some peresets [including the high pass you'll need].



* CLICK HERE to download the GVST GBand band-pass filter VST; choose the Grymmjack skin version - the interface is much easier to use. This is a combined high and low pass filter and seems to work OK.



* The last one is very easy to use; the TAL VST Multi Filter has a high pass, low pass and band pass filter - the download page IS HERE.



Hope that helps Sam, let us know how you get on.

Steve






Edit - screenshots

Sam, the GT3 'Squeeze' unit is a compressor.

It won't be much use to remove the kick drum - it maybe only help in accentuating the other stuff in there, such as the snare drum.

Did you get it sorted out Sam?

Hey Z, I think we mentioned before that it's kind of nice to get some feedback, positive or negative, that's why I asked.

I think someone's upset him.