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Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 5:38 pm
by mahzerwrath
I was wondering if it was a common technique to "duck" your kick for the entire mix, or even your snare for that matter. I understand it eases the competition for frequency space by "ducking" the volume of conflicting sources when the kick (or whatever is being processed) comes into play. Would it be appropriate to duck all of my drum tracks? ie: kick, snare, toms, or is ducking simply situational? Also if you guys have any other sweet production secrets share them wiff me
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Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:05 pm
by bidwell
Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:43 pm
by oWLinDaylight
Ducking is very situational. Try searching around the forum for more information on side chain compression.
The most basic and common method is just having your bass duck your kick, but some artists like to have their entire track ducking the kick, and then there's artists who don't like to side chain anything. Its something that you have to do some research on and play around with in your DAW to figure out.
Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:58 pm
by nnny
Sidechain + Shakers = <3
Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:06 am
by bayda
nnny wrote:Sidechain + Shakers = <3
yeah it's great for using with shakers, if you watch the kryptic minds master class they use sidechaining on a shaker and you can hear the possible effects of it, you can do the same thing with 16th note hi hat rhythms of all sorts!
Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 11:27 am
by AlexDarkDubz
Depends on what DAW are you using, search on Youtube for some tutorials
Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 2:03 pm
by tripwire22
side chaining is so fun on huge fucking pads
Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:45 pm
by Anne Droid
i wouldnt use it too liberally, i find a lot of time i dont even need to sidechain when I have other paramters changing in the right places
Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:47 pm
by Sharmaji
all the time. delay send sidechained by lead vox, various things sidechain-multiband comped by the kick, etc, etc, etc.
Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:39 pm
by scubacell
if ya wanna be a wanker sidechain anything that's playing when your kick/snare hit to allow 'em to punch through better, play around with volumes of the tracks until the effect is as gentle or dramatic as you want it to be. a lot of producers do it to make their drums stand out in the mix better.
also, for bonus fun try out a filter sidechain, i've had a lot of interesting results. you can even have a muted track as the input source to create some cool filter envelopes and patterns for synths and such
Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 9:38 pm
by Naan_Bread
Sidechained reverb sends
Re: Side-chaning (ducking) when to use it?
Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 10:03 pm
by RandoRando
Instead of aidechaining he actual snare, sidechain a rimshot that plays he same beat as the snare