alt Hacker NewsInteresting read, in effect, the live room level defined the envelope of the added reverb in the original discovery at least- I was not aware of this detail.
Perhaps much more subtle and useful, (certainly more timeless...) is the technique of gating the bass guitar sound with the envelope of the kick drum, either reducing the volume of the bass guitar on the drum hit, or the dropping its volume except when the kick drum is hit.
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My inherent pedantry drives me to say "this sounds like compression, not gating". Do lots of people use "gating" to mean "automated volume control"? In 30ish years of hobbyist music production I have only encountered it to mean "automated in/out control". It's "compression" that automates dynamics.
Thinking out load a bit here:
- maybe the existence of West-coast style "low pass gates" proves me wrong...
- gates sometimes have release controls, which would make them "automated volume control", but I still contend that aiming for zero gain when the gate closes makes them in/out controls not "dynamics" controls).
> the technique of gating the bass guitar sound with the envelope of the kick drum
Also known as sidechaining.