Next up let’s talk about another tool in FL Studio, called Maximus. I know that’s a weird analogy, but I’m such a visual person that it helps me think about what I’m trying to accomplish with a noise gate. So you have to balance the release time to be fast, but not so fast that you get an unnatural sounding vocal. If it pops up quickly, that’s like a short release time, meaning the least amount of noise will get through.īut sometimes if the release is too quick, it can cut off some of the vocal. If it takes the dock a long time to pop back up, that’s like a long release time, meaning potentially more noise will get through. The speed at which the dock pops back up above the water line you can think of as the release time for the gate. The dock will bob down into the water as the ducks crawl on it, and then it will pop back up and sit above the water as the ducks get onto the dock. get the ducks on the dock with the least amount of water). You are trying to capture the audio with the least amount of noise (i.e.
When they do this, some of the water gets on the dock, and it bobs a little bit in the water, meaning some of the water will still get onto the surface. This is what is called setting the threshold.Īs the ducks float down towards the dock, they can climb on to the dock. You are trying to set the level of the noise gate just above the water line (noise floor). It’s floating right above the water level, not too far up that the ducks won’t be able to get on it. The intention of this dock is to get the ducks out of the water. Most of the duck is out of the water, but there is some parts of the duck that are sitting below the water, or the noise.ĭown this stream, you set a little dock that is floating on the water. The water, the stream, represents the noise. The ducks represent the audio that you want to keep. I want you to picture a group of ducks floating down a stream. So let me give you a visual picture of how this operates.
And Thres is the threshold, or the point at which you want the gate to start working. Gain is how much of the gating effect you want applied to the signal you are processing. Rel is short for release, and it controls how long the gate stays open after the signal has come through that you want.
On the right side of the plugin is a set of three knobs that make up the functioning of the gate. I think it’s greatest strength is using it as a compressor, especially for me, since I am such a visual person, and the interface for compression makes sense to me from a visual standpoint.īut it also has the ability to operate as a noise gate for the audio that you want or need to process. Fruity Limiter is a pretty versatile plugin inside FL Studio.
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