Noise Gates vs Noise Reduction - Which is Better?

Hi, I'm radioham listening to noisy signals coming in, can I use a rowing noise gate inline with my external speaker to cut out the noise on my radio.

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Permit me to disagree a bit. The noise gate helps you set a threshold on the levels of signals you want to allow through. If you set a noise gate to take off everything below -34, it takes it off even those in the original recording.

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Appreciate your vids...been mixing for 40 years but everyday is an opportunity to learn...which leads to my question...when using eg RX for removal...have you ever done a phase check? Ie like when everyone uses hp filtering and it clouds the upper harmonic phasing but no one talks about it?
Might be helpful, especially for newbs to show a little history of gates eg on a console etc and how even basic tools like a gate did wonders on even eg 70s records when they first really hit the ground in a big way

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How do I choose Noise Gate threshold and level reduction numbers if I am not trying to get rid of any noise necessarily but to set volume levels more even and make my compression and limiter effect apply easier. I am hearing noise gate makes those two much more better.

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Great, simple video. Toward the end there you seem to indicate that the noise will exist during the recording process, regardless. So, you're saying that noise reduction is something to be processed after recording, or can it be done during the recording process?

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A hope this gonna help me like ae was struggling too

Will noise reduction make me lose high end on my vocals?

so is there an easier or faster way to do the noise reduction method. i have a lot of tracks id have to do this to each one 1 by 1?

Simple terms, like it, some videos just make my mind go like mush lol, thanks

Simple and precise. Thanks

I detect a difference between the two guitar examples (beginning at 1m30s) of perhaps 5%.

I know you're not trying to punk your audience, that wouldn't make sense.

Please use examples that are more egregious. Besides, string & finger noise is often what provides context and ambience to the larger mix. Have a listen to Quincy Jones vocal takes when Jacko was recording Thriller: Unless you're doing a completely solo guitar recording, what you're removing in the first example is inconsequential. (by the way, I'm not a troll, but a fan of your videos, so please don't take this as abuse, merely a suggestion that those of us with less sensitive hearing need more stark evidence that this procedure holds water :)

What do you think about universal Audio API Channel strip gate can I use it for tracking and still get good in your face emotion in my vocals ?

I think any amateur recording can benefit from a plugin like X-Noise. I dont have alot of noise in my recordings but they sound anyways so much better when i have it on top of the chain with the right not too aggressive settings.

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excellent explanations. thanks. i am so glad you clarified when to use noise gate: i mostly record my instruments in the large empty room i have as my studio (which is NOY soundproofed, and is on a street with quite a bit of traffic: in Indian cities, that is the case pretty much as EVERYwhere!), and i was wondering why i was hearing myself so loud in the room (on a tin whistle at 1:00 am!) but the recording was so low! the imac’s mic and my lavalier mics were giving completely different results. i think it was because of my use of Noise Gate with a high threshold: mistaking precisely what you pointed out: it listens, and cuts off everything below a Level, and Boosts everything ELSE, regardless of the frequencies! since i was playing very low decibel, and low pitched notes on a BFlat TinWhistle (which by itself is very ‘airy’ literally AND figuratively), and long extended notes to get Clarity in microtones between BFlat and C! i finally see how the same pitch when i sing, is so differently recorded by the mics, and treated by ‘noise’ reduction/gate software. i guess there is no substitute to getting the recording at the BEST volume possible in the room, at which there is the least room resonance (which as a Baritone i use a lot in live performances). thanks a ton. it would really help if you could have some cations/labels. especially when you are pointing out subtleties like below 50 and 50-100. unfortunately for me, most of my voice falls in that category upto about 1600. with sinuses and humidity, this range is so difficult to record with any level of fidelity…

No never do denoise because it takes away all of the important high end frequencies and the mix sounds very thin and without body. I was using denoising for years but will not anymore. Fab Filter Pro G is just working miracles to me.

From Noise Gate to Noise reduction, I really do not think there is any that can beat the LawoGate from Lawo. An old plugin but it just works wonders. Just recently, I had to reinstall it again and bridge it with JBridge.

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Yeah but denoising vocals fucks up the mic quality much worse than ppl say it does

I have always understood Noise Gating as closing a gate, just like your live vocal recording example or guitar and amp. So when your guitar is not playing, as you said, the gate closes and any noise doesn't get through in between. For me, the word Gate in the title is a dead giveaway. :)

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Alguin que haya entendido me puede informar en español la conclución? que es mejor plugins de noise reduction o puerta de ruido? gracias!

a noise gate is a gate for the noise to enter the room ;)

Would you say the juice isn’t worth the squeeze using a gate to reduce breath sounds? For my podcast, I’ve been applying the default Audacity noise reduction prior to importing to Fairlight for edits and adjustments. Solo podcast SM58 to Zoom Podtrak P4

Your videos are just great.

thank you so much for sharing all this knowledge! Which noise reduction plugin would you recommend? thank you so much I am looking for one rn!

does using somthing like a NS1 or Accusonus on a vocal track ruin the vocal? is it similir to your way??

does using somthing like a NS1 on a vocal track, ruin the vocal?

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Y'all here noise. I hear a nice Lo-Fi sample 😂

This made so much sense. I thought I was using my noise gate wrong when really I just need a denoise plugin

Excellent video, thank you so much!

Thank you so much for this video, really great explanation!!

Extremely helpful and clear, Michael. Thank you for all of the insights you share on this channel!

Great explanation of noise gate vs noise reduction. Obviously, you're focusing on music production, where noise gating is used to eliminate mic bleed and feedback. However, the gate is also extremely useful for voice over and podcast when there are long pauses between dialogue, breaths, and other noises. For example, audio books require room tone ceiling at -62 db, which is pretty much dead silence (unless you've got your earphones/buds fully cranked up). Good time for the noise gate to cut out everything until it hears your desired RMS, which you've determined in Audition or another DAW.