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What is it?

Please don't start pointless threads. If you have an in depth question then maybe.

I looked in google but i don't understand it for a bit. I'm a total noob, you see, but i see it tossed around so much that i have to have a clue of what it is. Any help?

just youtube man, i just searched sidechaining in fl cause thats what i use, n theres like page after page after page of vids showing u what needs to be done n what effect it has...

Sidechain compression is just like normal compression but with sidechaining the compressor is set to only activate when a certain sound is playing. I.e. kick sidechained to the bass, every time the kick plays the compressor on the bass activates and thus compresses the bass. The pulsating effect can be achieved this way, but there are many other uses for sidechain compression.

you can sidechain more than just compression
it means that an effect is triggered by another track

deadly habit wrote:you can sidechain more than just compression
it means that an effect is triggered by another track

You see it applied to gating often which is like compression in reverse so that a sample doesn't play until something else plays.
Consider you have a sub - gate it so it's silent and then when a kick hits your sub plays so it has a big bassy boom

hey yeah, that would be pretty usefull.