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timbres ·
Does anyone know of a gate that will allow sound to come through above a certain threshold, but still keep everything below that silent? Every vst plugin I've tried works like a on/off switch instead, meaning that once you hit that threshold, the gate opens and everything comes through.
I'm playing an electric guitar with a high compression setting for tapping out a celtic style song, and each time I tap the fingerboard with my right hand, other open strings or harmonics ring out.
Thanks for your advise.
Richard
stefan ·
Do you mean that for instance if one string is loud and another is very silent you only want the sound of the loud one to be let through?
If so, that's not really doable, for the gate there's just one sound, it does not know anything about the sources etc.
BasherT ·
I agree that there is no software solution to the problem that you have identified.
however, being the old git I am, I can remember reading an article in a guitar mag ages ago (1980's) which suggested that Eddie Van Halen (I think it was him!) simply removed some of the lowers strings from his guitar before recording his tapping to tape. If there are no strings there they don't ring out! It is a lo-tech solution and, of course, it rather limits what you can do musically with only one or two strings to tap but it does solve the problem. 😈
timbres ·
That's exactly what I was thinking of Stefan, kind of like a multi-band compressor except that it would work with levels instead of frequency.
It can't know about the sources, but can't it work like a comb filter, allowing only what's above a given threshold to sound?
BasherT,
That's exactly what I did yesterday, but instead of removing the other strings, I stuffed tissue paper under them to keep them muted.
Thanks for your thoughts guys.
5010 ·
Hmm... I wonder.
A vst filter where you set up a list of notes that are included in your riff (to prevent it from having to analyze every note and waste cpu).
It could then filter the audio signal and see which frequency is the loudest from the given input.
From that cutoff, calculate a bunch of harmonic frequencies to be fed into each parallel filter on the original signal. Combine the result into the output with gain adjustment.
My guess is it would probably sound like crap compared with removing strings or using tissue paper. 😕
timbres ·
And 2-ply tissue absorbs any moisture from my strings 🙂
I listen to guitarists like Eric Johnson, David Gilmore and Allan Holdsworth and I don't hear ANY secondary string noise. Especially Holdsworth because he has such a simple setup.
Dallas eh? I was born 70 miles south of there.
5010 ·
I bet fix up the instrument to max the signal-to-noise during recording. Very hard to clean-up downstream.
timbres wrote: Dallas eh? I was born 70 miles south of there.
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