This is a problem solver when gating snares. Typically snare gets clipped at its front when gating, so here is the trick. Put a gate on your snare track and enable the sidechain. Duplicate your snare track to a new audio track, pull down volume all the way and move it slightly earlier with a pre send sent to sidechain on original snare track. Gate will now be triggered ahead which will rectify clipping problem.
