Kiln · Vocal gate
Kiln
Damper
Drums out, singer in.
A vocal gate that rides like a fader. Route in the drums and it learns how they bleed into the vocal mic, so it opens for the singer, not the snare.
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The nameThe damper is the plate in a kiln's flue, eased open or shut to control the fire.
What it does
Learns your bleed
Pick the drum bus as the side chain. Damper learns how the kit leaks into this mic, by itself or with one press of Learn.
A fader, not a switch
Up quickly a moment before the first word, eased down after the phrase, never all the way to silence unless you ask.
Clean under the words
Gently takes the drums out from under the vocal, band by band, so a snare hit mid-line dips and the voice doesn't.
Hear what it takes
Removed plays only what Damper is taking out, so you can check there's no voice in it.
Watch
Controls
- Damper
- How far the background drops
- Learn
- The drums' bleed print
- Fade · Phrase
- How the fader moves
- Sensitivity · Breath
- What counts as the singer
- Clean
- Drums out from under the words
- Listen
- Output · Removed · Side Chain