Slate Digital's Gates Bundle offers two dynamics processors in a single software package, both of which help eliminate unwanted background noise or mic dropout between drum beats, vocal runs, and more.

Use these plug-ins in your mixes whenever you need to make silence bleed quickly and intelligently.

The Gate is one of the most important weapons in an audio engineer's arsenal. Used tactically, it can eliminate or reduce background noise from recorded material. Used creatively, its applications are virtually limitless. Previously, Slate users had to access gates directly from their DAW or third-party plugins. But those days are history...

Introducing two new gate modules: Gate: Classic and Gate: Drums. Now you can access nearly infinite gate options without having to leave the Virtual Mix Rack workflow!

Gate: Classic is a traditional, straightforward gate that is highly effective at removing background noise from guitars, vocals, and other acoustically recorded material.

Gate: Drums is a highly sophisticated drum application. It combines a transient detection-based gate with intelligent dynamic filtering, so you can achieve much cleaner drum tracks than with a conventional gate.

Characteristics:

Gate: Classic

One fierce gate to rule them all! Easily kill unwanted background noise across a variety of source materials. A classic gate configuration with traditional parameters – threshold, ratio, range, attack, release, slope and two distinct gate modes:

• Classic: pattern detection based only on signal amplitude. The input signal can be filtered with highpass and lowpass filters.
• Vocal: introduces internal filtering that better detects a vocalist's natural breathing. A unique timing circuit is added to facilitate gate opening and closing.

Gate: Classic also features highly accurate side-chain filters, providing a variety of creative options throughout the mix.

Gate: Drums

Unlike Gate: Classic, Gate: Drums is based on transient input. This means the gate is triggered by sharp, smooth transients rather than volume levels. With this unique processing, you can separate the transient from the tail of the signal and apply different processes to each!

Gate: Drums is divided into three sections; from top to bottom:

• Transient Detection: The first step in the workflow – tuning the detection to capture only the desired transients.
• Gate: the second step of the workflow – adjusting the gate floor and timing.
• Debleed: the final step in the workflow – filters the tail when a transient is captured.

Detection filters: filter the signal before detection so that the gate only reacts to certain frequencies.

Detection Threshold: By excluding low levels, you can focus on a specific amplitude range and have incredibly accurate transient detection!

Debleed: Debleed On/Off allows dynamic filters.

Release: controls the speed at which the filter activates upon detection of a transient.

MAIN FEATURES

• Gates Bundles against noise with two modules
• Gate: Classic provides general-purpose gate with traditional parameters
• Gate: Classic includes Classic and Vocal modes and sidechain filters
• Gate: Drums provides drum-specific gates based on transient detection
• Gate: Drums offers a lot of envelope shaping options – especially when you combine it with a compressor
• Works within Slate's Virtual Mix Rack – no more switching between the VMR and your DAW or third-party plug-in