Skip to main content
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Download PDF
  • Research Article
  • Open access
  • Published:

Automatic Noise Gate Settings for Drum Recordings Containing Bleed from Secondary Sources

EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing volume 2010, Article number: 465417 (2011) Cite this article

Abstract

An algorithm is presented which automatically sets the attack, release, threshold, and hold parameters of a noise gate applied to drum recordings which contain bleed from secondary sources. The gain parameter which controls the amount of attenuation applied when the gate is closed is retained, to allow the user to control the strength of the gate. The gate settings are found by minimising the artifacts introduced to the desirable component of the signal, whilst ensuring that the level of bleed is reduced by a certain amount. The algorithm is tested on kick drum recordings which contain bleed from hi-hats, snare drum, cymbals, and tom toms.

Publisher note

To access the full article, please see PDF.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. The Centre for Digital Music, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, E14NS, UK

    Michael Terrell, Joshua D. Reiss & Mark Sandler

Authors
  1. Michael Terrell
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Joshua D. Reiss
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Mark Sandler
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Michael Terrell.

Rights and permissions

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Terrell, M., Reiss, J.D. & Sandler, M. Automatic Noise Gate Settings for Drum Recordings Containing Bleed from Secondary Sources. EURASIP J. Adv. Signal Process. 2010, 465417 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/465417

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Revised:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/465417

Keywords