Hey Folks,

I'm looking to switch to a new DAW from Logic. It's severed me well over the last 5 years but lately there are so many GUI performance bugs with El Capitan & Yosemite its driving me up the wall, and apple don't seem to be doing anything about it so I've had enough.

Currently running dual boot on a Hackintosh so have access to either Windows or Mac.

This is something I've been doing for a while now and it's greatly improved my mixes.

NOTE: This is for mix control as not the "Ducking effect" (I recommend something like LFO tool for that)

A lot of people tend to use their kicks to trigger their side-chains, which works great in some cases but the tail of the kick often leads to it going over the top and loosing a lot of the sound.

I've attached a really tight "Tap" which I use as the trigger for my side-chain, it has no tail at all and makes all the difference.

LINK: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5limc6187qbrh06/TIGHT%20SIDECHAIN%20128BPM.aiff?dl=1

Here are my compressor settings.



I use this a lot of my sounds;

Lead Bus
Bass Bus
Pads

Anything thats prominent in the track and going over a beat.

Give it a try and see how your mix turns out, your kick should really start to punch through nicely.

Here's one of my tracks that I've applied this technique.


Hope it helps ;D