Sidechaining in rock

emreyazgin · 5th July 2006

If we forget the fact that there are not much right's and wrong's in mixing for a minute I want to ask something about sidechaining in rock music.

I would like to try and compress a couple of tracks with a key input like vocal etc. I guess its a common trick to compress 5th powerchord type of guitars with vocal track as key? Any other applications I might consider?? Eg. Key:Vocals, compression:Keys? etc. ?

Thanks a lot in advance...

Emre

JonCraig · 5th July 2006

hmmm... if the kick is getting lost in the bass, i'll duck the bass off the kick. never tried guitars off the vox. makes sense, though. i usually do volume automation.

--jon

RobR · 5th July 2006

If you believe the artist might ask the mastering engineer to crush the crap out of your mix, then I might urge against this. Otherwise, do what you feel.

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emreyazgin Gear addict Joined: Apr 2006 Location: Cyprus Posts: 346 Thread Starter	Sidechaining in rock If we forget the fact that there are not much right's and wrong's in mixing for a minute I want to ask something about sidechaining in rock music. I would like to try and compress a couple of tracks with a key input like vocal etc. I guess its a common trick to compress 5th powerchord type of guitars with vocal track as key? Any other applications I might consider?? Eg. Key:Vocals, compression:Keys? etc. ? Thanks a lot in advance... Emre

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JonCraig Lives for gear Joined: Apr 2004 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1,800	hmmm... if the kick is getting lost in the bass, i'll duck the bass off the kick. never tried guitars off the vox. makes sense, though. i usually do volume automation. --jon __________________ "My job is to make music sound great and to not whine too much." --George Massenburg Learn PT Techniques from Multi-Platinum Engineers. Click Here.

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RobR Gear addict Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 446	If you believe the artist might ask the mastering engineer to crush the crap out of your mix, then I might urge against this. Otherwise, do what you feel.