Original Message 1/20                 Date: 06-May-02  @  06:39 PM   -   Side Chain Compressing...

boo_meister

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I sidechain compress my Bass by sending a snare sound to trigger the bass compression as the Kick hits. It gives a nice 'bounce' to the bass, without being a cheesy kick bass kick bass offbeat thing...

Anybody else do this?? What do you think?

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Message 2/20                 Date: 06-May-02  @  06:55 PM   -   RE: Side Chain Compressing...

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not sure what your doing - why are you sending a snare instead of the kick to the side-chain?

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Message 3/20                 Date: 06-May-02  @  06:59 PM   -   RE: Side Chain Compressing...

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The Snare is just a 'control' sound and isn't actually heard, I just trigger it at the same time as the kick, but it's sent to the side chain input on the compressor I use for the bassline.

I use a snare because it is a sharper sound than the Kick and seems to have a fast attack. I could use a rim or something, but a snare just seems better.

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Message 4/20                 Date: 06-May-02  @  07:48 PM   -   RE: Side Chain Compressing...

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I guess the net effect would be superimposing the snare envelope onto the kick, so you get the snappyness of a snare but with low freqs instead.

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Message 5/20                 Date: 06-May-02  @  07:57 PM   -   RE: Side Chain Compressing...

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The Freqs in the trigger sound don't really do an awful lot here. They don't matter. The Envelope is what matters.

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Message 6/20                 Date: 06-May-02  @  10:37 PM   -   RE: Side Chain Compressing...

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I think of sidechain as something of a vocoder although that's really not at all the case except that one sound is modifying another.

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Message 7/20                 Date: 06-May-02  @  11:32 PM   -   RE: Side Chain Compressing...

bedwyr

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did you just mean to say something?

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Message 8/20                 Date: 06-May-02  @  11:52 PM   -   RE: Side Chain Compressing...

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never done it

always thought the sidechain was for using an EQ to get the compressor to hit a certain area...

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Message 9/20                 Date: 07-May-02  @  12:05 AM   -   RE: Side Chain Compressing...

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Well, try it!

 

I'm surprised nobody else here does it...

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Message 10/20                 Date: 07-May-02  @  12:32 AM   -   RE: Side Chain Compressing...

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with the eq thing, you can make a comp function as a de-esser by multing the vocal channel and using an eq into the side chain to zero in on the offending frequency. what he's talking about here almost functions like the gate trick in reverse. maybe it'd be cool to get it to make a verb pump rhythmically.

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