What is a good gate to use for vocals? Help!

Hi Guys
I'm still relatively new to Logic... I'd love some advice from those more experienced...
What is the best way to eliminate background noise from the spaces between words on a vocal part? I experimented with some of the gate options, but I ended up just making the vocal part really quiet (and even then if I turned up my headphone amp, I could still hear the hisses and foot shuffles of the singer, in between the sung words)...
Does anyone have some advice on (a) which gate in Logic I should use, and (b) some good settings to try to get a cleaned-up vocal take that has silence in between the words, without sounding too quiet or too un-natural?
If anyone can point me to some useful info on this or make suggestions, I'd be very grateful!
Cheers and thank you,
Mike

I'm probably in a minority, but I don't like using gates on vocals. I'd much rather take the time and manually clean up vocal tracks in the sample editor, taking out noises, pops, background noises, reducing breath sounds, changing gain etc. Although it takes much longer of course, I prefer the results which sound much better and more natural to me. With a bit of practice, you can zip through tracks quite quickly.

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