A simple and easy-to-see threshold control that works hand-in-hand with the visualizer.
Silencer - Get it free with the Artist Pass
Start Artist Pass ➔Cymbal bleed: solved.
Kill the bleed. Keep the tone.
Most drum gates make you work harder to deal with bleed. Silencer makes the problem disappear. No tweaking endless parameters. No compromising your tone. Just turn the knob and get back to making music.
Cymbal bleed that used to compromise your mix now takes seconds - and your live drums will sound as clean as samples.
Hear the difference
Take a listen.
Snare Btm
Kick
Toms
What it does
Built different.
01
No more noise. Just tone.
Traditional gates just turn it down. Silencer cuts bleed - the nasty high-frequency bleed from cymbals bleeding into your snare and toms. The attack, body, and tone of your drums comes through untouched.
02
Get more out of your drums.
For decades, mixers compromised their live drum mixes because of bleed. With Silencer, that bleed disappears - so go ahead and crank the EQ, saturation and compression twice as hard. Your live tracks sound as clean as samples.
03
Cleaner drums in seconds.
Dedicated modes for Snare Top, Snare Bottom, Kick, and Toms. Silencer intelligently filters out other parts of the kit to avoid mis-triggers. True lookahead means every transient you want gets through undamaged.
04
Dial it in. Move on.
A simplified interface and precision waveform visualizer let you get your de-bleed dialed in in seconds. Stop fussing with gates. Solve the problem and get back to the mix.
Under the hood
How it works.
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Our gating and debleeding algorithm is fine-tuned and optimized for Snare top & bottom, kick and toms.
3
Differentiates true hits from bleed so you can isolate the shells from the cymbals with extreme precision.
4
This controls the amount of attenuation when the gate is closed.
5
This defines the length of the sustain or ring you want to hear on each hit.
6
Automate this button on/off to easily allow ghost notes through when needed.
7
Tweak the amount of high-frequency de-bleeding that occurs in Silencer's de-bleeding circuit. This is the magic knob.
8
Engage side-chain mode to trigger the gate from another bus, while getting all of the tone and debleeding benefits of Silencer.
What pros are saying
Trusted by the best.
★★★★★
"Silencer is one of the best and most intuitive drum gates I've ever used. I highly recommend it. Great work BSA!"
Andy Sneap
Killswitch Engage, Dream Theatre, Fear Factory
★★★★★
"Silencer solves problems engineers have been searching to resolve for a long time. It's a tool that's versatile and will yield better drum mixes for novices and experts."
Michael H. Brauer
Dream Theater, Coldplay, Aerosmith
★★★★★
"I used to get into fist fights with drummers over their cymbal placement... Now I just use Silencer."
Josh Shroeder
Striker, Lorna Shore, The Color Morale
Simple pricing
Get Silencer +
15 more plugins for $99/yr
$1,165 worth of plugins. One subscription. Cancel anytime.
Silencer only
$99
One-time - perpetual license
- ✓Silencer plugin
- ✓3 activations
- ✓Free updates & support
- ✓Free trial available
Best value
Artist Pass - Annual
$99 /yr
$8.25/month · billed annually
Replaces $1,100+ in individual purchases
🎁 Own Silencer for Free
Join the Annual Artist Pass and one plugin is yours forever, even if you cancel.
- ✓All 18 current plugins
- ✓Free updates and support
- ✓Every future plugin - automatically
- ✓Bonus courses, sample packs and producer community
Artist Pass - Monthly
$12 /mo
Cancel anytime
- ✓All 18 current plugins
- ✓Future releases included
- ✓+ All bonuses included
Artist Pass
16 plugins. One subscription.
Everything below is included with your Artist Pass - plus anything we release next, so your pass gets more valuable every year.
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Technical details
System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.15 or higher
- Windows 10 or higher
- 64-bit only
- 200 MB free drive space
Plugin Formats
- AAX (Pro Tools)
- AU (Mac)
- VST3 (Mac & PC)
- 64-bit compatible
DAW Support
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- FL Studio 23+ (PC: VST3)
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