Sidechain Song

Tips & Tricks
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Hi Guys.

I’m not very active on this forum, i just wanted to share something i learned in the studio in Rotterdam.
With the right settings you can make awesome sidechaining.

2 Tracks. a kick and a lead with 2 send devices sending those 2 tracks to S01 and on S01 a compressor with the proper settings. It’s actually pretty simple.
Also the reverb responds very well to the sidechaining effect :)

For some reason i think this sounds better then using the signal follower or the bus-compressor on S01.

http://cid-97ebb1d9ea7127dd.office.live.com/browse.aspx/SideChain

Let me know what you think, no VST’s are needed. You need Renoise 2.7b1 for this example song.

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Is that really sidechaining or just compression?
It seems to do a very big cut on the lows of the kick.

3

That’s definitely not sidechaining.

4

Hmm strange because it sounds like sidechaining to me.
The compressor (S01) on the lead is following the kick’s signal but i noticed it only works when the 2 tracks are played together because there is no pre-fader option?, otherwise it doesn’t give that typical sidechaining-sound. Mute/Off/Pre or Post in the mixer nothing works unless the 2 tracks are played together.

Technically what i did is Kick+Lead(Track1 and Track2) → Send-device to S01 → S01 compressor.

I’m sorry if this is in some way not true-sidechaining technically but it pretty much sounds like it to me :)

I just tried changing the kicktrack from “Send-Device” into “Signal-Follower” (S01 → Compressor → Ratio) with a bit of dest-max alteration, also gives the same kind of sound and then the lead keeps sounding like sidechaining even when kicktrack is muted.

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yeah, not sidechaining, you need to use the signal follower though even thats not real sidechain compression. sometimes i use it on the compression threshold instead of the gainer though so you could try that, and experiment with the signal follower in general, it rules

6

thats pretty cool though, you can get sidechain-like effects with just the compressor and maximizer

also note the effect you’re talking about only works with the reverb on, at least from what i can see

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I sidechained some things in this track of mine. Just use a bus compressor and a signal follower.

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The weird thing was that today my teacher in Rotterdam tried it with real analog hardware the same way, so 2 tracks from the hardware mixer-panel routed with wires into the compressor and it worked like sidechaining. (track 1 is normally routed into the compressor and the other track into sidechain/return port). Or something like that.

Ahh well i will experiment some further, routing is great ey :D