Noise Gate Kills Feel?

[wesleyamltd]

For those that find the gate taking away dynamics, do you feel it's affecting dynamics that at times when the meter doesn't show its engaged? Or is it more that any gate used is taking away some attack?

I notice it whenever it’s engaged on my physical unit despite whether it’s triggering the gate.

I haven’t bothered to think about it when using the fractal. But on the. Fractal I usually set the gate so its closed when volume up on guitar not touching the strings.

 

[PSea]

New to Fractal and just got the FM3 and have used for about 10 gigs so far, after using a 100w Marshall JVM410H for about a decade. I think the noise gate works well to kill noise, but on lead patches, feel like it's killing sustain. Then I happened to see this video and he says he never uses the noise gate as it "kills the touch". Thoughts?

turn off the gate for the solo scene.