Expanders vs Gates for Podcasting

Thanks, Man!
This was super helpful.

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Thanks!

hahah was laughing about the part with ethan xD and man his set up is so nice ^^ and i thought the same "how can he turn around but we can still hear him nice" but you answere me the question thank you and awesome video! btw. i love my new dbx 286s and i know this is a total other video xD

Thanks for the demo! Very helpful. We've been trying noise gates and haven't got the results we were hoping for. Looks like expanders are the way to go!

Hey Shane. I have Behringer Autocom Pro, what's your thoughts on that one?? Cheers 🍻

I just purchased the combo cuz legit last night EVERY dbx 286s got sold in my area! Hope this works well with my sm7b

Love these videos. Thanks!

Do NOT open the gate!!!11!1 👻✌🤣

can you explain this using the dbx 286s ? :) not sure which knob controls the expander and which controls the gate :D thanks!

I'm hearing pops and scratches when you speak.

...you didnt who any settings :-(

if gates were inferior, they would be on any products, just like everything they are situational

Acoustic treatment really makes a difference 😊

This was super helpful, thanks so much Shane!

Thank you!

Can you explain how to set up a DBX 234 or whatever the one with XLR is? I literally have no idea if I need it or not...thanks, I'm just a noob and you're a straight to the point sort of guy.

Extremely helpful. Thank you much!

Hi...I have small room (10m2) which is completely covered (top to bottom) with Sonitus Pyramis 7 wall panels, almost death. In room is 4 Shure SM7-B mics to 18in8 Scarlet usb interface, distance around 1m, mics is 180 degree opposite each other. When recording dialogs second mic capture audio. Difference in levels is around 25dB (speaker peak at -6dB, other mic unwanted sound at -34dB). Can MDX2600 resolve this? thanks for good videos!!!

I never understood why people were using gates, as I learned to work an expander pretty early on in my studio experience.... Nice explanation!

Hey buddy - funny finding you here :-). I actually wanted to buy a gate for my guitar rack. Was looking at a 4 channel gate, so each amp in my amp switcher has it's own gate. On the high gain settings - it's noisy when I stop playing, even with the volume of the guitar down. I see Behringer makes a 4 channel gate/expander/compressor/limiter, which looks ideal, but I wonder if this would work for guitar? Behringer Compressor (MDX4600 V2). Always welcome your input brother! So happy I found a video by you on this topic! \m/

This is exactly what i needed! Thanks man!

Hello!
I bought a behringer multigate like this, but my unit is having some white noise/hiss noise, like an amp with high volume, not interferences, when I apply gain to the mixer it is connected to, is this normal?
If I connect the mics directly to the same mixer and apply the same gain on the mixer I don't get any noise.
Even the red leds that indicates the sound attenuation are making some different noise.
Does this gate have really clean outputs?

I plug dynamic mics into the gate's xlr input and then send the gate's xlr output to the mixer's input, all via balanced, shielded xlr.
Is this correct?

Even if I don't plug anything into the gate input, I still get hiss if I apply any gain to the mixer it's connected to.
Thanks!

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really good video - thanks for posting

OMG!!! I love your pic of muddy waters in the background. I am a friend of the family and know them very well.

The nice thing about using your expander method is you can always gate it in post if you want to, but you're not baking in anything into the recording that you can't undo later.

Been playing with this a Lot the last year, if you have alot of room noise a downward expander is easily the way to go, It's alot cleaner because it also eliminates the noise when you speak which a noise gate does not do and it means you typically do not need noise suppression either which always lowers the quality of your audio a bit.

Thank you so much! Now I understand the differences of the two.

Hello, I wanted to use Composer Pro-XL for my guitar. But, I have an issue. The composer is connected to my Audio Interface with Send/Return, when I play the guitar while The Composer is off I can hear my guitar but once the Composer is on the sound cut-off! Would you please help me with this matter? Thank you :)