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hey everyone my name is Mike and I am

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the host of a podcast called our big

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dumb mouth obdam and today I'm gonna

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talk to you about noise gates and how

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they can improve the sound quality of

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your podcast I broadcast and record in a

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very small room I don't have a lot of

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noise padding up and it's an apartment

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and so there's a lot of outside noise

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and so I have to use noise gates in

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order to calm down the background noise

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in fact right now I have a fan going in

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my room because it's low hot and you

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probably can't notice that it's on so

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let me turn off the noise gate there it

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is the noise gate is off do you hear how

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that background noise

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yeah it's really annoying and especially

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when you have multiple people in the

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room or if you have someone on skype

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that you're podcasting with you have to

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worry not only by your background noise

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but their background noise and you guys

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yeah I'm not used to not using a nosegay

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now it's uh it's harder to get used to

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when we turn this thing back on

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there we go and boom now I'm using noise

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gate on my Korea my DV ax preamp the

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power this microphone right here and

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this is about a 200 other preamp you

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don't have to spend that much money on

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it I also have a preamp or I'm sorry a

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nose gate down here right here this

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barons your compressor which is about a

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hundred and twenty dollars it has yeah

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I'll turn off this noise gate alright

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here we go

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that's off and I'll turn on this noise

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get down here there we go so I have two

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different noise gates going

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why well this one's for me and the one

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down here is for the rest of my crew who

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pretty much live on skype they call them

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through Skype and I mix them and they

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are taken care of by this noise gate

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down here and I use this one up here or

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me there we go I'm back to where I was

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now there are noise gates that you can

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use in post-production it's they're very

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handy and the reason why I like because

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you can throw a lot of gain through this

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microphone and it won't sound like it's

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distorted you won't get that background

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here I'll throw a lot of game at this

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thing you know it'll start to get a

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little over driven and if you didn't

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have a noise gate

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it would probably produce a lot of

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feedback but here we go let's let's

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throw a lot of game this thing okay a

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lot of game is being thrown at this and

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you can hear that it's a

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I probably went up in volume but it's

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it's very distorted it's kind of got

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that classic yeah let's crank it up here

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we go yeah there we go

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and I'll crank up the the the drive and

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the and the compressor so now I'm overly

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impressed and overly driven and it's

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almost that classic 1970s me turn back

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down 1970s ever you DJ kind of effect I

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saw the the the compressor but the

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Northgate allows you to experiment

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around with your own tone on your

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podcast you want something a little bit

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more gritty or do you want something

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clean-cut like an NPR sound that goes I

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go a little more gritty I like the over

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driven kind of ultra compressed sound I

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have a lot of compressors have a

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compressor right here that I I do some

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additional post-production work with a

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multiband compression using VST plugins

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in sound Forge and maybe I'll do another

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video on that and how to dial in your

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sound that you want with free plug-ins

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that you can get on the web that's it I

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think that's all I got for today that is

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the importance of noisy so I'll put it

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on again here we go the the noise gate

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is being bypassed and bypassed

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everything and you can hear the

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background noise we go noise gets on

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saves you and it just increases the

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quality of your podcast that much more

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so when people tune in for the first

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time they go hey these people have their

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[\h__\h] together I'm gonna continue

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listening I'm not saying that happens to

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me but it might happen for you alright

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wait thanks for watching and hopefully

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you learned a little something about