GGate is a free Noise gate plug-in developed by GVST. GGate is a noise gate which silences the incoming signal once it drops below a user-defined threshold. This kind of effect is useful when source material contains background noise during 'silent' passages, such as the hum of an amplifier or artefacts from an effect chain.
This time on bpb Freeware Studio, we’ll be covering the best free noise gate VST/AU plugins for Windows and Mac.
A noise gate is not the sort of effect you’d use all over your mix in electronic music (especially if you’re working with virtual instruments, which means there’s no unwanted noise
). But if you’re processing live recorded audio like vocals, guitars, or external synthesizers, a noise gate is an essential tool to have at your disposal!Don’t forget that a noise gate can also be effectively used for shaping sound envelopes – I often use this technique on acoustic kick drum tracks to shorten those subby tails and leave room for the bass guitar. Noise gates with an attack control can also be used to soften the attack transient of percussive sounds, much like you would do with a transient shaper!
Follow the links for screenshots & download info:
- Auto Gate/Expander by slim slow slider (Windows)
- Floorfish by digitalfishphones (Mac, Windows)
- G8 by platinumears (Windows)
- Gate by xhip (Windows)
- GGate by GVST (Windows)
- preFIX by Variety Of Sound (Windows)
- ReaGate by Cockos (Windows)
My two favorite noise gates from the list are preFIX by Variety Of Sound and Floorfish by digitalfishphones. Both plugins are easy to use, yet offer most of the functionality you’d expect to find in a noise gate. preFIX is more than just a noise gate though – it’s a great all-round utility plugin with transparent filters to clean up the lows and highs, as well as a phase correction module to calibrate an audio track perfectly before sending it to further processing.
preFIX by Variety Of Sound.
If you’re looking for ultimate simplicity, make sure you check out GGate! It features only three controls and it’s extremely easy to use, making it a perfect tool for less demanding tasks (like noise gating an electric guitar track before sending it to a virtual guitar amp). Definitely not the most feature-packed noise gate out there, but sometimes a quick and efficient tool is all you need.
Finally, here’s a handy video tutorial on how to set up a noise gate on a multitracked acoustic drum mix – it shows how a noise gate can be used to remove bleeding signals from individual drum tracks and thus clean up the mix as a whole (video by recordingrevolution):
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“Frontier is a studio-grade limiter plug-in with simple and straightforward user interface. It allows for quick and efficient controlling dynamics of a channel, bus or master output. Frontier can be used as very transparent mixing / mastering limiter (at certain settings) with just licking the loudest amplitude peaks, or can be utilized as sound-shaper too, when more extreme settings are at stake. Especially with soft-clip option is enabled.
Quality and performance makes Frontier a perfect tool for almost any studio situation. Its simple and clear interface in combination with excellent sound quality will surely be appreciated by any engineer looking for efficient way of controlling dynamics of a channel, bus or even master output. Frontier can be used as very transparent mixing / mastering limiter (at certain settings) with just licking the loudest amplitude peaks, or can be utilized more creatively, as sound shaper, when more extreme settings are at stake.
Algorithm for automatic gain makeup used in Frontier automatically normalizes the signal’s volume after it passes limiting section. It contributes to efficiency boost of setting the plug-in up.
Mind that Frontier is not just simple limiter. With selectable Control Input and optional Soft Clipping you get in your hands a quite versatile ad creativity-releasing tool. Appropriately configured in your DAW Frontier can act as e.g. mono ducker (using Left or Right channel as control signal for the input feed). Or enabled soft-clip option in combination with more drastic settings will reveal Frontier’s wave-shaping capabilities. Surely with time you’ll find more and more applications for this useful unit.
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Key features:
- Configurable control input.
- Automatic output gain make up.
- Controllable release characteristic.
- Optional soft clip.
- Tag based preset browser.
- Two alternative GUI sizes.
- MIDI-learn functionality throughout.
- 64-bit internal processing.”
Windows : VST / AAX compatible host application (32bit or 64bit)
Mac : AU / VST / AAX compatible host application (32bit or 64bit)”
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