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  • HireProducer changed the title to Sidechaining
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Here's a good link:  https://www.sageaudio.com/blog/pre-mastering/sidechaining.php

 

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Sidechaining is a production technique used in a wide variety of music genres where an effect is activated by an audio track. In other words, it’s using an alternative audio source to trigger a processor. The alternative source is set to a threshold, which when exceeded activates the effect.

 

One of the most common examples of this is when radio DJs are talking over some background music. When the DJ speaks, a limiter is activated upon the background music by the audio signal of the DJ talking. This causes the music to drop way down so that it doesn’t interrupt the talking. When he’s finished talking, the silence on his track deactivates the limiter on the background music and it once again becomes louder in the mix.  A popular name for this is "ducking."

 

Another common sidechaining is used is in electronic dance music (EDM) where there’s heavy kick and bass. Often, producers will put sidechain compression on the bass of an EDM track and have it triggered by the kick. This reduces any muddiness that might happen from having too much low frequency sound when the kick and bass play simultaneously.

 

 

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Hey

 

You will find a section on side chain here:

 

https://www.songstuff.com/recording/article/compression/

 

Side chain relates to the source of a threshold trigger and using it for other purposes. One first uses was for the “ducking” effect, ie when a DJ speaks the music automatically turns down to let the DJ’s voice cut through. It can be used for many other purposes too. For example helping a vocal cut through, to automatically affect reverb levels etc.

 

Cheers

 

John

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