Great Videos, in a easy to understand way.

New sub here, just picked up an Xr18 and suspect these videos are going to be very useful.

This sounds useful for an enclosed arena with a separate monitor engineer but in any other type of room I think this would kill the drum sound.

Nice video, but You have forgot to turn on those key filters, so they were doing nothing to the gates ;) and key solo works also only when you turn the key filter on hence no change in sound when changing filters :)

fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!! :))

thanks

nice bro

Can someone explain me why James went to the key filter and key solo of the compression settings while actually talking about gating at around

ExcellentTutorial. Best i have seen. Thx

Thank gour

moving the key filter with the key filter off???? wierd

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What about using the expander setting?

Church sound engineers if you can actually call them that are the worst in the world about gating and compressing the life out of the drums. I'm a drummer and sound engineer myself and when I play conferences and events I come across situations where the toms are comp'd so heavy that I literally have no dynamic range at all that I can hear in my ears. No matter how hard or soft I hit there is no discernible difference which makes playing worship music which is very dynamic music very difficult. I would like to take these guys with me out to the real world to learn.

Thank you for the video! I'm still kind of new to the X32. How exactly (step by step) do I keep the musicians from hearing the gates in their in ears? Thank you! I mean, what exact buttons do I push what knobs do I turn. I've watched A LOT of videos, hoping to find my questions answered and I'm still striking out. Thank you!

And the drummers leg is dead after having played the bass drum 10000+ times for just a soundcheck....

I actually keep my range much lower, like 3-5 db. But maybe i can get away with that with the kind of bins that I use.

Do the same principles apply to evil music?

As a long time working drummer, I can safely say there is nothing worse than an engineer that gets a bit too eager with the gates. So many gigs I get to a quieter song and all of a sudden there is no cross stick snare sound as the gate is too tight, or the kick disappears when you play a quieter ghost note. Use sparingly!! :)

What mixing board are you using.?