whats side chaining?
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Lets' lay it all out straight and get things clear.
Sidechaining is when you send an external signal into a channel/processor/effect/plugin etc to listen and act by, instead of listening to the normal input signal.
In normal english that means that you for instance have a plugin loaded on a mixerchannel, however this plugin does not listen to the input volume from the sound which mixerchannel it's loaded onto, like it normally would if you only loaded it up onto the channel and left it there and then started tweaking it - it instead listens to an external source, meaning a sound on another channel that has been sent to this mixerchannel using sidechaining.
The most obvious example is of course the sidechained compression with the kick, as mentioned before in this thread.
Let's say you have a mixerchannel with a pad sound on it, and another mixerchannel with a steady kick rythm on it.
Then you add a compressor on the mixerchannel with the pad sound, and you set a threshold, ratio etc. Normally the compressor would listen to the pad sound and reduce the gain, or compress the audio all depending on how the pad sound acts.
But instead you send the kick channel to the pad channel using sidechaining, and then you set the compressor on the pad channel to listen to the kick instead of the pad.
This means that the threshold will listen to the kick's amplitude instead of the pad's amplitude. And the gain reduction will more resemble the shape of the kick, and the sound will duck down and up (in this case).
Yes, you let the kick control the pad's volume by using this certain technique.
No, the kick doesn't mix up with the pad on the channel because "you sent it to the pad channel", that is known as routing or bussing - sidechaining is all about sending a sound to another just in order for different processors to listen to and react to - it doesn't blend with the original sound.
Of course sidechained compression is just the start of it, once you learn the princible of the art of sidechaining there are more tasks to apply it to.
Is this necessary for you to know and learn? Well yes, just as much as any other technique.
You may not produce EDM (if I read it right in the posts you produce Rap), but there's more to it.
Learning sidechaining is a very powerful technique to know for mixing. It may be most easy to hear in EDM these days, but it's used in many other areas, such as in Rock music - often to let the vocals control the volume of the guitars so the vocals are always heard, without having to squash the dynamics of the vocals.
Look up any words you're not familiar with, since you seem to be fairly new, at least to my impression.
Hope this helps
Sidechaining is when you send an external signal into a channel/processor/effect/plugin etc to listen and act by, instead of listening to the normal input signal.
In normal english that means that you for instance have a plugin loaded on a mixerchannel, however this plugin does not listen to the input volume from the sound which mixerchannel it's loaded onto, like it normally would if you only loaded it up onto the channel and left it there and then started tweaking it - it instead listens to an external source, meaning a sound on another channel that has been sent to this mixerchannel using sidechaining.
The most obvious example is of course the sidechained compression with the kick, as mentioned before in this thread.
Let's say you have a mixerchannel with a pad sound on it, and another mixerchannel with a steady kick rythm on it.
Then you add a compressor on the mixerchannel with the pad sound, and you set a threshold, ratio etc. Normally the compressor would listen to the pad sound and reduce the gain, or compress the audio all depending on how the pad sound acts.
But instead you send the kick channel to the pad channel using sidechaining, and then you set the compressor on the pad channel to listen to the kick instead of the pad.
This means that the threshold will listen to the kick's amplitude instead of the pad's amplitude. And the gain reduction will more resemble the shape of the kick, and the sound will duck down and up (in this case).
Yes, you let the kick control the pad's volume by using this certain technique.
No, the kick doesn't mix up with the pad on the channel because "you sent it to the pad channel", that is known as routing or bussing - sidechaining is all about sending a sound to another just in order for different processors to listen to and react to - it doesn't blend with the original sound.
Of course sidechained compression is just the start of it, once you learn the princible of the art of sidechaining there are more tasks to apply it to.
Is this necessary for you to know and learn? Well yes, just as much as any other technique.
You may not produce EDM (if I read it right in the posts you produce Rap), but there's more to it.
Learning sidechaining is a very powerful technique to know for mixing. It may be most easy to hear in EDM these days, but it's used in many other areas, such as in Rock music - often to let the vocals control the volume of the guitars so the vocals are always heard, without having to squash the dynamics of the vocals.
Look up any words you're not familiar with, since you seem to be fairly new, at least to my impression.
Hope this helps
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Lets' lay it all out straight and get things clear.
Sidechaining is when you send an external signal into a channel/processor/effect/plugin etc to listen and act by, instead of listening to the normal input signal.
In normal english that means that you for instance have a plugin loaded on a mixerchannel, however this plugin does not listen to the input volume from the sound which mixerchannel it's loaded onto, like it normally would if you only loaded it up onto the channel and left it there and then started tweaking it - it instead listens to an external source, meaning a sound on another channel that has been sent to this mixerchannel using sidechaining.
The most obvious example is of course the sidechained compression with the kick, as mentioned before in this thread.
Let's say you have a mixerchannel with a pad sound on it, and another mixerchannel with a steady kick rythm on it.
Then you add a compressor on the mixerchannel with the pad sound, and you set a threshold, ratio etc. Normally the compressor would listen to the pad sound and reduce the gain, or compress the audio all depending on how the pad sound acts.
But instead you send the kick channel to the pad channel using sidechaining, and then you set the compressor on the pad channel to listen to the kick instead of the pad.
This means that the threshold will listen to the kick's amplitude instead of the pad's amplitude. And the gain reduction will more resemble the shape of the kick, and the sound will duck down and up (in this case).
Yes, you let the kick control the pad's volume by using this certain technique.
No, the kick doesn't mix up with the pad on the channel because "you sent it to the pad channel", that is known as routing or bussing - sidechaining is all about sending a sound to another just in order for different processors to listen to and react to - it doesn't blend with the original sound.
Of course sidechained compression is just the start of it, once you learn the princible of the art of sidechaining there are more tasks to apply it to.
Is this necessary for you to know and learn? Well yes, just as much as any other technique.
You may not produce EDM (if I read it right in the posts you produce Rap), but there's more to it.
Learning sidechaining is a very powerful technique to know for mixing. It may be most easy to hear in EDM these days, but it's used in many other areas, such as in Rock music - often to let the vocals control the volume of the guitars so the vocals are always heard, without having to squash the dynamics of the vocals.
Look up any words you're not familiar with, since you seem to be fairly new, at least to my impression.
Hope this helps
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