Mix Smart

CHAPTER 6 Expansion and Gating

 

The most underutilized effect: hear what you are missing.

 

MIX SMART QUICK START : Expansion and Gating

Goals

• Practical motivations include noise reduction and leakage reduction.
• Fit tracks together in your mix more easily through cleverly reshaped amplitude envelopes and supportive gated reverbs and ambience tracks.
• Feature tracks by extracting exaggerated ambience and artifacts, manipulating timbre, and tremolo.

Gear

• Master the unusual set of parameters and features: threshold, slope, attack, release, fade, decay, hold, and range.
• As you learn compression/limiting, you get better at expansion/gating, and vice versa.

 

With expansion and gating, the concept of a compressor gets logically inverted. ...