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Gate effect.
Studio people tell, the GATING is a typical oldschool technique.
You can find it in various FX plugs, or on Digital mixing consoles, and external FX hardware. To tell the truth, I've never used it.
Actually I like to know if anyone over here can tell on what kind of purpose you would use a GATE effect.
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i use it if im engineering a band..
when you record live drums even the best mics get a little bleed (ie: some hats coming thru on snare track) so you add a gate to cut out as much of the bleed tail as you can.
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yeah, u usually want to use a gate to avoid bleeding from other instruments, like on a snare or kick drum (on a real drum kit)
oh, and even vocals too, like when you hear the singers headphone mix bleeding into the mic or some slight breathing
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gate "closes" down the signal (mutes), based on the setting you put. it is used to eliminate the unwanted noise or, for example, breathing in / out.
originally it was used to mute tape hiss, that was produced on tape machines.
where to use it in techno? i sometimes made nice effect of cutting bass+kick in some breakdown, but generally it is easier for me to automate manually what gate would do.
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Thanks guys.
I'll keep this in mind!
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As well as the usual noise gate method, i like to use them for creative sounds.
A good example is triggering them with midi. A long held note with a filter sweep, then apply a midi triggered gate to create a rythmic filtery fx sound