There are a lot of reasons to use noise gates aside from 'you don't know what you're doing'. Some synths and drum machines are just noisy, and when you add a bit of drive or compression it just gets worse. And in fact I also have a degree in electrical engineering, so I am a musician and an engineer. I even basically have my studio in a faraday cage I had to build because of a noisy cell phone tower nearby. I have great cables that I soldered myself and no ground loops or hum or hiss or anything like that.
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No, I am not asking because I don't know how to fix noise issues. You will have more usable dynamic range and a better signal to noise ratio. If you learn some good information about how to fix these problems for less money you will indeed have a better final product (music) without the dynamics or EQ being modified by gear you really don't need or want processing your signals. You might be a victim of marketing but there is a fix for that. There is no money to be made by DBX telling you how to fix your problem for free. Plenty of companies will sell you hum eliminators or noise gates because that is one more product they can sell to musicians who are not engineers. My understanding is that OP wants to use a noise gate because OP doesn't know how to fix the problem.
I think OP would have asked about dynamics for drums or maybe gated drum sounds. If someone wants gated drums that is really a completely different scenario. That is not helping anyone find and fix the noise floor. Fixing a ground loop in your studio will do nothing to the dynamics. Swapping out bad cables for good ones is not the same thing as adding a compressor. It depends why there is noise and what can be done to address the problem. The claim that there is no way to improve noise floor when playing live without crushing dynamics is bullshit %100. Some fuzz pedals are actually gated so they actually work like noise gates! Think about that. That does not mean that high gain pedals are the source of noise in every case. High gain guitar pedals will amplify the noise more because they are high gain. You are half right about high gain guitar pedals. If you are already there then you don't need to do anything. Fixing the noise floor involves making it better than what it was or making it meet some specification that is acceptable to the user IF it is a problem. Noise floor is a measurement that can be taken anywhere for any piece of gear. This is a bad way to describe noise floor. I recommend one of the cheap multi channel dbx units. if you are jamming live and recording to 2-track, there is no way to fix an individual parts noise floor without crushing the dynamics of the whole mix. there are many reasons to use noise gates on individual channels in a mix. also percussion can be made punchier w noise gate envelopes. anything w distortion/fuzz will have a noise floor.
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