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by devmunchies 2319 days ago
> 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.