I haven’t the option to use two rooms for recording, which I am told would solve the issue. Am I misusing the function or just encountering the limits of a ‘basic’ inbuilt noise-gate plug-in… (as opposed to a separate one that I have to download online)? I know I can tweak other settings but to no great improvement. Applied post-production, this is eliminating the hum of the fan but causing choppiness to my vocal, which is necessarily low and quite nuanced.
The threshold in Cubase AI only goes as far as -47DB. I imagined applying the gate to the settings before recording would be more beneficial… but how does the gate work in pre- versus post- production terms and can I get away with post-production treatment? I see you can apply the noise gate to a track post-production.
I have a few issues and questions before I can start making sense of this so any indications and help much much appreciated. My amateur sound engineer status means I only just started studying the noise gate function on Cubase AI. I’m recording vocals in my bedroom and have come up against the old computer fan in the mix problem.
