• Gating 101 (06:16) - Learn what all the basic controls of a noise gate do and hear how they work, clinically, on a square wave.

• Understanding Downward Expansion (06:33) - Hear how downward expansion works as a subtler means of reducing signal levels when they fall below a specific threshold; demonstrated with the McDSP Channel G and Waves C1 plug-ins.

• Electric Guitar Noise (03:47) - Explore the way SSL based downward expansion versus gating works on a noisy high gain electric guitar.

• Dialogue Noise (05:30) - Hear how gating and downward expansion with two different plug-ins work on a noisy female dialogue recording.

• Drum Gating Pt. 1 (06:34) - Hear how the Gate module on the Metric Halo Channel Strip plug-in is used on a drum kit's hi tom and floor tom channels to minimize bleed from the other kit piece elements. Gain staging in and out of the gate module, along with the side chain filter is used to tweak the gate's detection.

• Drum Gating Pt. 2 (07:12) - In addition to controlling leakage, explore ways to use gating and downward expansion on kick and snare tracks to shorten, or muffle, the drums natural sustain.

• Breath Reduction (05:57) - Discover how gates and gentle downward expansion are used to minimize breath sounds between vocal and dialogue phrases in a natural way.

• Transient Enhancement (05:17) - Explore a slightly unconventional use of gating, as it is applied aggressively on parallel kick and snare drum tracks. The attack portion of the signal is isolated for further processing and then blended together with the un-gated tracks.

• Gated Reverb (04:31) - Learn how to create the classic gated reverb effect and see how downward expansion yields different and interesting results.

• Locking the Timing Together Between Two Tracks (04:32) - See how side chaining is used to have a gate tighten up the timing between two tracks by acting upon one track based on what it is hearing from another.

• Creative Sidechaining (07:25) - Explore ways of using a gate to have sustained sounds chopped up to staccato rhythms being fed into the gate's side chain input.

• Gate Control (03:47) - Explore an unconventional use of gates to separate loud and quiet notes for independent processing.