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More Sidechain Technique Discussion (and massive love)

Post by decklyn » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:30 pm

First off, I just want to re-iterate my love for massive.
here is a bass I made in massive, which will be discussed further in a moment. IT'S SO GRIMEY!
http://www.epicacademy.com/downloads/de ... ngrime.mp3
@ 320kbps. Obviously made for house @ 125bpm. Do with the contribution what you will, tho!

Okay so I was working on a house track (cause my wife loves house and wants me to make a track that she can forward to all of her huge toronto DJ friends/associates in the house scene to get played out).

And I was ducking the bass under the kick to keep the subfrequencies clear. But what happens if you want to have some rhythm in your bass (as in the sample) which plays through the ducking? I thought about it for a moment and came up with a solution.

As it is primarily the bass frequencies that get muddy, we can keep the higher frequencies in tact. So here is what I did.

I set up all of the sidechaining/ducking as describe in the other tutorial

But I routed some of the bass from a send channel to another group. I low passed the bass out of the compressor, and high passed the bass out of the second group. That was the low frequencies are ducked, but the high frequencies are preserved.

Here is the result:
http://www.epicacademy.com/downloads/de ... grime2.mp3

Here is a flow chart.

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Post by subframe » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:32 pm

^^^ that's the most beautiful post ever :lol:

I do this a lot as well. It's obviously very useful to split frequencies on different auxes/sidechains for compression or ducking, but can also be useful when sending to reverbs, or distortions, or delays, most other effects.
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Post by decklyn » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:39 pm

subframe wrote:^^^ that's the most beautiful post ever :lol:

I do this a lot as well. It's obviously very useful to split frequencies on different auxes/sidechains for compression or ducking, but can also be useful when sending to reverbs, or distortions, or delays, most other effects.
Yeah for sure! Gives you SO MUCH CONTROL!
Glad the contribution is appreciate! nuff respect, subframe.
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Post by deadly_habit » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:40 pm

heh might have to get on msn more despite weirdos so we can do some shit together for the forum

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Post by future one » Fri Apr 13, 2007 6:06 am

Nice one :)

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Post by cjpa » Fri Apr 13, 2007 12:51 pm

decklyn, you're a born teacher!

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Post by inasoundubs » Fri Apr 13, 2007 2:56 pm

nice1 , this is really helpful, definitely makes sense to separate the frequencies when ducking

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