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Oxford Drum Gate 2 v1.02.0 – The Align Tab, Rebuilt

Oxford Drum Gate 2

29th Apr 2026

Oxford Drum Gate 2 v1.02.0 – The Align Tab, Rebuilt

Mixing drums means working through bleed from neighbouring mics, phase relationships that sap punch and clarity, and manual nudging that eats up session time before you've made a creative decision. Ox … Read more

How To Gate Snares Without Losing Ghost Notes With Oxford Drum Gate 2

Oxford Drum Gate 2

8th Apr 2026

How To Gate Snares Without Losing Ghost Notes With Oxford Drum Gate 2

Conventional noise gates fall short when you try to keep both the accents and ghost notes. They react to the level of the signal, regardless of the drum being played. This means that snare drum record … Read more

This Shouldn’t Work: Oxford Drum Gate 2 Extracts Drums from a Phone Recording

Oxford Drum Gate 2

24th Mar 2026

This Shouldn’t Work: Oxford Drum Gate 2 Extracts Drums from a Phone Recording

There is now a way to take a phone recording of drums and turn it into something genuinely usable. Not through stem separation, but through a different approach to how drum detection works. In a recen … Read more

See Why the Pros Are Switching to Oxford Drum Gate 2

Oxford Drum Gate 2

25th Feb 2026

See Why the Pros Are Switching to Oxford Drum Gate 2

It’s been just under a week since we released Oxford Drum Gate 2, and the response from the audio community has been incredible. We designed V2 to be much more than just a standard noise gate. W … Read more

Oxford Drum Gate 2

18th Feb 2026

Oxford Drum Gate 2 Is Here

Clean, mix-ready drums from the first hit. Intelligent detection. Phase-locked alignment. Adaptive decay. Built for the way drums actually need to be mixed. Stop fighting your gate Inconsistent hits … Read more

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Oxford Drum Gate 2 v1.02.0 – The Align Tab, Rebuilt

How To Gate Snares Without Losing Ghost Notes With Oxford Drum Gate 2

This Shouldn’t Work: Oxford Drum Gate 2 Extracts Drums from a Phone Recording

See Why the Pros Are Switching to Oxford Drum Gate 2

Oxford Drum Gate 2 Is Here

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