Sidechain gating vox reverb

I've been trying to set this up so the reverb is gated until the dry vocals drop in level below the gate threshold so that the verb doesn't muddy up the lyrics. I can't figure out why it isn't working. Any help is appreciated! Here's the setup: -2 vocal tracks within 1 folder track. -1 track for vocal reverb I set up two sends from the vox folder track to the vox reverb track, one of the sends going to ch 1-2, the other sending to ch 3-4. I placed ReaGate after the reverb insert on the reverb track. I have reagate taking ch 3-4 as the aux input, and 1-2 as the main input and "Invert Gate (duck)" is checked. Now I thought this should work but the gate isn't gating when the vox are above its threshold or below it. It just plays through like there is no gate.

Personally, I just use a compressor (ReaComp), as it gives you more control over how the signal gets ducked (ratio, knee). By description, your routing seems correct, try it with compressor. To me it looks like the ReaGate invert function is broken, it behaves exactly the same when unchecked. e

I just realized that the Parent folder track can't send the audio to ch 3-4 of the reverb track for some reason. When I just sent the audio from the child tracks to the reverb track, I get signal on ch 3-4 and in turn the aux input detector. Is this a bug or am I overlooking something that is at play? Maybe the media items have to be on a track to send it?

^ Feedback routing is what you've done - if you have a track receiving audio from its parent folder, you have a feedback loop and reaper will block the audio stream to prevent potentially crazy results, unless you have "allow feedback routing" checked in Project Settings. Routing to the reverb from the two vox tracks is the right way to do this.

Oh, you have a reverb track within the parent? In that case, yeah - detected feedback routing blocks the signal path by default. Just put the reverb track out of the vox folder, this way you maintain only one send control for multiple vocal tracks. e

No, i'm not sending audio from a child to it's parent folder. It's like this. Vox Folder Vox 1 Vox 2 Vox Reverb Two sends of vox folder->vox reverb. One is to ch1-2 & one is to ch3-4.

post a project file if you still need assistance. e

Ok here it is. You only need to pay attention to the vox tracks & vox reverb. What's wrong with my routing? :(

Ok, I checked out your project. You are only sending to the aux (3/4 on my system) channels. Believe it or not, you actually need to send to the main channels AND another send goes to the aux That goes for both vox1 and vox2. Now you could be sending the vox folder in there, but you may have other reasons for doing it this way. It looks like you have comp on there now instead of the gate, which is good. Keep adusting the threshold and ratio until it ducks during the vox and then blooms when the vox stop. It's a cool effect but I sometimes find that "all or nothing" is too extreme. Don't let it duck all the way out.