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Re: Side chaining trick that makes your kick punch right through.
« Reply #15 on: January 08, 2016, 02:51:15 am »
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Kill the noise posted a video on facebook regarding this. Will try to find it and link it here

From his Facebook...
https://www.facebook.com/killthenoise/videos/10152804881451822/
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Re: Side chaining trick that makes your kick punch right through.
« Reply #16 on: January 08, 2016, 08:19:37 am »
Quote from: Djemps on January 08, 2016, 02:51:15 am
Quote from: Tiongcy

Kill the noise posted a video on facebook regarding this. Will try to find it and link it here

From his Facebook...
https://www.facebook.com/killthenoise/videos/10152804881451822/
Awesome thanks. I actually went back to VolumeShaper for this, and am sidechaining the sub very hard, with the rest of the bass sound only by about 25%. Makes it all pump quite nice but not overly noticeably.
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Re: Side chaining trick that makes your kick punch right through.
« Reply #17 on: January 08, 2016, 08:35:42 am »
Quote from: Scribit on January 07, 2016, 04:44:01 pm
Quote from: Luke Bond on January 07, 2016, 03:26:13 pm

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.



I really agree with this. Never use the kick in your mix as the side-chain trigger. It causes you to change your kick just to change your side-chain effect. In order to stay in complete control you should separate the two and have them changeable without effecting each other.

welp time to redo all my sidechains
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Re: Side chaining trick that makes your kick punch right through.
« Reply #18 on: January 08, 2016, 08:41:32 am »
Another good technique to help with CPU is to just route all your synths through 1 compressor since they'll all have the same sidechain anyway (and if anything has a unique sidechain you just give it its own compressor).

In Ableton you can do this by setting your channels to "Sends Only" and just have them go through a send that has the compressor on it.  I can post a pic guide if needed
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Re: Side chaining trick that makes your kick punch right through.
« Reply #19 on: January 08, 2016, 01:44:34 pm »
Quote from: Eskai on January 07, 2016, 07:41:59 pm
Quote from: Aerithos on January 07, 2016, 07:40:38 pm
Quote from: Eskai on January 07, 2016, 07:27:07 pm
A quick question on Sidechain -

Does anyone ever use multiband sidechain compression? In this particular instance, I'm looking to duck only the Sub from my Bass bus but not the higher frequencies. I was playing with Trackspacer for this purpose.

Would be interested to see what other techniques people use.
What I recommended previously, Volume Shaper 4, will do this perfectly. It's a 3 band volume envelope processor with MIDI triggering.
Oh very cool. I'll check this out!

Also, Tokyo Dawn Labs's free Nova dynamic EQ plugin has a sidechain, so you could do sidechain dynamic EQing with that?
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