NOISE GATES (per direction): raw analyser levels at/below the gate render as TRUE
silence — without this, an idle microphone's room-noise/auto-gain floor keeps the EQ
dancing and the direction stuck on "user" while nobody is speaking. The mic gate sits
a touch above the output gate (playback silence is actual zero; mic silence isn't), but
NOT so high it swallows normal speech: 0.08 over-gated — typical Mac-mic normalized speech
peaks well under it, so the meter read silence the whole time the user was talking. 0.045
(≈ the presence floor) suppresses idle room-noise while letting real speech drive the EQ.
NOISE GATES (per direction): raw analyser levels at/below the gate render as TRUE silence — without this, an idle microphone's room-noise/auto-gain floor keeps the EQ dancing and the direction stuck on "user" while nobody is speaking. The mic gate sits a touch above the output gate (playback silence is actual zero; mic silence isn't), but NOT so high it swallows normal speech: 0.08 over-gated — typical Mac-mic normalized speech peaks well under it, so the meter read silence the whole time the user was talking. 0.045 (≈ the presence floor) suppresses idle room-noise while letting real speech drive the EQ.