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Originally Posted by bbuyuk  Lagerfeldt, do you prefer to use Sidechain (hipass) compression or M/S compression (and may be M/S EQing too) for keeping the sound of kick "tight" on mastering the dance tracks?
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I was referring to mixing, not mastering.
External sidechain compression in mixing where you control the bass with the kick for instance. Not only can it give you 2-3 dB of extra headroom when setup correctly, but it can make the whole track seem tighter and "faster" since you avoid the heavy downbeats on 1 and 3.
In mastering, using an internal sidechain HP filter isn't the answer for getting a tight kick, on the contrary I would say, since it lets low frequencies through uncompressed. It could be the solution in other cases, but not for this problem. M/S compression/equalizing could work well but generally speaking it's simply a question of good eq and broadband compression.
Multiband compression on the low band could the answer in some cases too, but it all depends.