My new favourite drum gate.
The sonnox drum gate is by far the best drum gate I used so far. It’s easy to use and yields great results for some clean gated drums!
Say goodbye to bleed-filled drum tracks with Oxford Drum Gate. It smartly detects hits, reduces spill, and preserves the natural ring—giving you clean, punchy drums. For tight control or effortless editing, Drum Gate delivers every time.
The Sonnox Oxford Drum Gate redefines precision gating for drum and percussive tracks, solving the common challenges of bleed and mis-triggering that often plague drum mixes. Using intelligent drum-hit detection, this advanced gate plugin accurately isolates and controls each drum, ensuring clarity and impact without losing the natural feel of your performance. With its adaptive decay feature, you can tailor the gate’s release to match the resonance of each drum, capturing the full sustain without unwanted noise.
Optimized for studio professionals and mixing engineers, Oxford Drum Gate’s detailed frequency control allows you to refine individual elements in a drum kit, from tight kicks to shimmering cymbals. It integrates seamlessly with leading DAWs, enhancing workflow with efficient, high-performance processing. Designed with Sonnox’s DSP technology, the plugin delivers pristine sound quality while minimizing CPU usage, making it a versatile addition to any producer’s toolkit. Perfect for music production, mixing, and post-production, this gate is essential for achieving a polished, professional drum sound.
"Never isolated bass drum and snare drum so easily with such accuracy. Even subtle ghost notes in a very dynamic jazz performance!"
Nils Hahmann, Audio Engineer and Abbey Road Institute lecturer
"Drum Gate is just smarter than anything else designed to detect drum hits. Dynamics handling is out of this world!"
Dax Liniere, producer/mixer at Puzzle Factory Sound Studios
"This plugin is amazing black magic sh*t! I can't believe what I just did to fix a crappy drum track"
Will Russell, Grammy award-winning engineer/producer
"It’s already blowing my mind. They are calling this a drum gate but it’s a magic box of tricks and a drum mixing dream come true!"
Greg Wells (The Greatest Showman, Adele, John Legend, Keith Urban, Deftones)
"Separating a kick/snare out of a loop, if even possible, was always a total pain in the a*s. I have no idea how Sonnox did it but they figured it out!! What a time saver. You’ve made my assistants so happy!"
Michael Brauer (John Mayer, Coldplay, Bon Jovi, George Ezra)
"This is a great one-stop-shop of a plugin. Drum gate achieves what I’ve been trying to do with 3 separate plug-ins and more"
Andy Sneap (Killswitch Engage, Megadeth, Bullet for my Valentine, Opeth)
The sonnox drum gate is by far the best drum gate I used so far. It’s easy to use and yields great results for some clean gated drums!
Amazing! Nothing else to say!