soft-knee compression work for sidechain bass/kick?

[bebopcola]

when you electro guys side chain the kick into the bass, do you always use hard-knee compression? imagine in a live scenario... would soft-knee work do you think?

[bebopcola]

maybe this is the wrong forum for this question.

[Smithcok]

Originally Posted by bebopcola

maybe this is the wrong forum for this question.

Not necessarily the wrong forum - but the question is too vague to offer a helpful answer.

In your original post - it's impossible to comment without hearing the particular kick same about which you are talking. Compression is tailored to the source signal. Hard knee for some sounds, soft knee for others.

If you post examples, I think people will be able to offer suggestions.

[bebopcola]

Originally Posted by Smithcok

Not necessarily the wrong forum - but the question is too vague to offer a helpful answer.

In your original post - it's impossible to comment without hearing the particular kick same about which you are talking. Compression is tailored to the source signal. Hard knee for some sounds, soft knee for others.

If you post examples, I think people will be able to offer suggestions.

Think an 808 kick with short decay triggering a sidechain on a dirty reese electro bassline. The compressor has a sidechain EQ. The question may be moot since the pedal DOES do hard-knee compression if you crank the ratio knob.


A guy I know on Talkbass has all the equipment to do the experiment, waiting to hear the results.. I guess his roland rhythm-77 drum machine from 1977 has a pretty weak kick so he'll have to improvise a bit.

[bebopcola]

Here's a great overview and review of the pedal -- I guess I was a little bit off about the EQ. It sounds like you can use it to adjust the sidechain or to just EQ the compression to make up for whatever it inherently does to the sound, without anything in the sidechain.

FEA OPTI-FET

[jasonm911]

Originally Posted by bebopcola

when you electro guys side chain the kick into the bass, do you always use hard-knee compression? imagine in a live scenario... would soft-knee work do you think?

anything works for electro.