![]() ![]() Most commonly, you feed a quarter-note kick drum track into the sidechain of a compressor that attenuates the volume of a synth pad, bass or whole group of tracks when the kick drum sounds. You can think of it like the kick drum scooping out the frequencies from the compressed tracks. ![]() The technique uses the audio signal of one track to trigger a compressor (or sometimes a gate) placed on a second track so that the second track is silenced or quieted when the first track exceeds a certain dB threshold. Sidechain compression gained infamy with the extreme pumping sounds of French house (think “Around the World” or “One More Time” by Daft Punk for well-known examples) and is now just about required of any dance or pop music, especially music using four-to-the-floor quarter-note kick drum patterns. Ride the waves of their results after the jump. Since the technique is so ubiquitous, what is the best plug-in for the job? Three affordable short-cut plug-ins to sidechain compression make the process easy. It’s the technique that melds the bass to the kick drum and creates a rhythmic pulsing to the music that has moved dancefloors since at least ’97. ![]() If you produce electronic music in 2015, chances are you will need to apply sidechain compression to some of your instrument tracks. ![]()
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