Gated reverb on a snare drum, produced by a plugin.
Gated reverb or gated ambience is an audio processing technique that combines strong reverb and a noise gate that cuts the tail of the reverb. The effect is typically applied to recordings of drums (or live sound reinforcement of drums in a PA system) to make the hits sound powerful and "punchy" while keeping the overall mix clean and transparent sounding.[1]
1980s pop inspired instrumental track with gated reverb on the snare.
As one of the more prominent effects in many British pop and rock songs of the 1980s, it was brought to mainstream attention in 1979 by producer Steve Lillywhite and engineer Hugh Padgham while working on Peter Gabriel's self-titled third solo album, after Phil Collins played drums without using cymbals at London's Townhouse Studios. The effect is most quintessentially demonstrated in Collins' hit song "In the Air Tonight".
Unlike many reverberation or delay effects, the gated reverb effect does not try to emulate any kind of reverb that occurs in nature. In addition to drums, the effect has occasionally been applied to vocals.[1][2]
^ abFink, Robert; Latour, Melinda; Wallmark, Zachary (2018-09-18). The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-998525-8.
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