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by JshWright 2327 days ago
> But the end result is with a configured noise gate the audio coming out will not appear to have as much hiss or room noise.

> Check out the Youtube video I linked of his. It's super noticeable. With Sony MDR-V6 headphones, I hear a huge amount of hiss in his audio. To the point where it's distracting and drowns out his voice.

If the noise floor is high enough that it interferes with the actual signal, a gate is just going to make it more annoying to listen to (as you hear the noise cut in and out).

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> a gate is just going to make it more annoying to listen to (as you hear the noise cut in and out)

my experience as well. its best to just use an EQ to dampen all high frequencies over a threshold so that its not distracting.

It would like this in the EQ: https://dt7v1i9vyp3mf.cloudfront.net/styles/news_large/s3/im...

I was a recording engineer at a TV studio before I got into programming. When we used gates it was very shallow, long compression so you couldn't notice abrupt changes.