Gates are a staple tool in every audio production job, but anyone who has used one knows that balance between cutting noise and chopping off your signal.

Gatey Watey is a gate that, through a simple crossover network, lets you have significantly more transparent gating without cutting off the sound you want to hear.

By breaking up the reduction into two bands and giving independent range controls, it allows you to cut the high frequencies more while letting the low frequencies through, letting your instrument ring out while it decays.

It also provides a more transparent transition from open to closed, reducing that “silence after noise” pumping that happens on broadband gates.

Gatey Watey gives you

Dual Band Gain Reduction

• Independent range control over High and
• Low bands.
• Customizable crossover frequency.
• Link High and Low bands for standard gate style reduction.

Extra options for every situation

• Internal and External sidechain
• Lookahead for cleaner gate opening

What’s New in V2?

V2 has the same simple layout as V1, so you won’t get lost in the options. But we’ve revamped it to be a bit more powerful.

• Apple Silicon Native
• External and Internal Sidechain
• Resizable GUI
• Independent range controls over High and Low band

Cut just the noise that matters.

Gatey Watey takes advantage of a couple of physical and perceptual realities of sound:

1) Most sustained, musical sounds concentrate their energy in low frequencies

2) Our ears are highly sensitive to high frequency noise

That’s why we don’t need to treat all frequencies equal. If we can simply cut the high frequency noise and retain the low frequency sustained tones, we can have a much more effective gate that doesn’t cut the signal we want to hear.