Side chaining

esamaxe · 11th December 2008

Hi. Got PT HD 3 System. been doing a lot of mixing. particularly r&b and rap, some rock.
Any way, I would like to know how to side chain properly, or duck certain elements in mix. few application ideas:

Duck guitar(s) against vocals
vocal against vocal
usually an r&b or hip Stereo track against ALL vocals
when the bass is to heavey in stereo track to maybe a multiband compressor
also use of gates, cuting certain frequencies in a track with gate

I know it can get complicated but i would apreciate some advice, I also have metric halo chennel strip which helps and I think has a lot of capability in this area.

thanks

MagnumXK · 11th December 2008

hey,

usually i would create a new track with whatever it is you want to feed into the compressor, if its your vocals than you can just use the same track and send it out to an empty bus. Then wherever you have the compressor you just enable the sidechain function and load that bus to it. I ussually use the digi compressor/limiter, it looks like a key and is located on the top right of the plugin. then you adjust everything(attack release and threshold) to taste. Im sure you can find videos of that on youtube or somewhere. On the tips and tricks page you will also find some info of someone explaining a little better than me.

11th December 2008	#1
esamaxe Gear interested Joined: Jul 2006 Posts: 20 Thread Starter	Side chaining Hi. Got PT HD 3 System. been doing a lot of mixing. particularly r&b and rap, some rock. Any way, I would like to know how to side chain properly, or duck certain elements in mix. few application ideas: Duck guitar(s) against vocals vocal against vocal usually an r&b or hip Stereo track against ALL vocals when the bass is to heavey in stereo track to maybe a multiband compressor also use of gates, cuting certain frequencies in a track with gate I know it can get complicated but i would apreciate some advice, I also have metric halo chennel strip which helps and I think has a lot of capability in this area. thanks

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11th December 2008	#2
MagnumXK Gear nut Joined: May 2008 Location: Boston Posts: 102	hey, usually i would create a new track with whatever it is you want to feed into the compressor, if its your vocals than you can just use the same track and send it out to an empty bus. Then wherever you have the compressor you just enable the sidechain function and load that bus to it. I ussually use the digi compressor/limiter, it looks like a key and is located on the top right of the plugin. then you adjust everything(attack release and threshold) to taste. Im sure you can find videos of that on youtube or somewhere. On the tips and tricks page you will also find some info of someone explaining a little better than me.