Sidechaining in FL

[ephyks]

If you're an FL user you most likely sidechain through the mixer by sidechaining two channels together. From your kick channel to your synth/effect channel. Then use the FL basic fruity limiter to sidechain.

Okay so here's my issue that I've never figured out.

I have a kick on channel 1. I have it sidechained to channel 5, which I have two of my basses on. The effects on that channel are a reverb, distortion & a limiter. With the sidechain effect fully working on my basses, my kicks pick up all the effects that are on that channel. So my kick also shares that reverb & distortion. How in the actual fuck do I make that stop? Is this not the "perfect" way to do sidechaining in FL? Having your basses sidechained to your kicks?!?

[webstarr]

Did you send it as a 0% dry signal? Sounds like its your problem

[ephyks]

Did you send it as a 0% dry signal? Sounds like its your problem

Hrm, not entirely sure what you mean. Elaborate if you could please.

[webstarr]

Did you send it as a 0% dry signal? Sounds like its your problem

Hrm, not entirely sure what you mean. Elaborate if you could please.

when sending it, make sure the send knob is turned down to 0%

[nowaysj]

Read the flstudio q&a thread. Or do a search for sidechain flstudio or something like that. If you use the limiter to sidechain, make sure you turn the lookahead down or you will have unwanted latency. Sidenote, you can put your sidechain device at any point in your fx stack, so like you are sidechaining the dry signal but still getting reverb tails, or whatever, just something to think about.

[webstarr]

Make sure this is at 0%

[ephyks]

Make sure this is at 0%

Huh? But if that is at 0% then no sidechaining occurs. My brain is full of fuck.

[nowaysj]

Yes it is, read the flstudio q&a.

[webstarr]

It does sidechain if it's 0%

[DubMikey]

Channel 01: Kick
Channel 02: Sidechain Kick (Apply nothing but a Peak Controller to this channel)
Channel 03: Subbass, mid-range or whatever. (Link the Peak Controller to the volume of the channel you want to sidechain. Adjust hereafter the volume of this channel on the knob far left on the Peak Controller (if I am correct))

This is what I do and it works perfectly fine.

EDIT: If there's any "better" way to do this, feel free to speak up!

[theedman]

Peak controller on the kick channel and then link the compressor or volume you want to sidechain to it

[Augment]

It does sidechain if it is at 0%, remember, the signal still gets sent to the limiter. Works like a charm for me