Hey guys, so I've messed around with sidechain compression before and my buddy showed me a track of his where he didn't use an actual side chain compressor just Nicky Romero - Kickstart on a bus. I don't understand how he applied this and made it effect other tracks

1.Could anyone give me a quick instructional on how to set something like this up and how to apply it to the other tracks?

2. What settings with regards to volume etc do I need to apply to the kickstart bus?

3. How would you route various busses like Bass, Leads, Drums through this?

Thanks for your help!

it is its own vst

so basically when you add it as an effect on an instrument it will do the effect for that instrument regardless.

a.k.a. he simplified sidechaining for you but does not give you the option to use that specific vst to route to other channels.

if its on the bass then its sidechaining the bass based on your perimeters of the vst itself.

hope that makes sense

the volume is automatically at 100% so use it as your ear sees fit. (100% is usually a good start, not 0%)

Ok, so you don't need to create a seperate "Kickstart bus" that other busses route into? You just apply it to the individual busses or tracks as you need like I've been doing?

Yeah. That's the way I do it anyways. I don't do any routing at all with Kickstart. I just slap it on a lead/bass bus and bypass it when I no longer want it there.