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wiooi · Post by **wiooi** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:22 am

Does anyone use side chain comrpession for superimposing a snare onto a kick (my case is electro house, but in general) or do you do it using eq's?

Very general, just interested to know. I tend to get issues using side chain compression but i think its untimatley the better way of doing it.

Funkstar De Luxe · Post by **Funkstar De Luxe** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:28 pm

Side chaining will kill your snare. Just Eq them until the sound 'good'. Side chaining is only used to remove certain bits of audio when your kick plays (for example...). You do not want your snare dropping with every kick

wiooi · Post by **wiooi** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:07 am

cheers, i meant the other way around however (snare sidechained onto the kick, thus the kick loses volume on matching frequencies)

having said that i havent been using it.

legendCNCD · Post by **legendCNCD** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:43 pm

yeah. ducking bass with kick - moderate, ducking kick with snare - light and fast attack and release. set thresholds accordingly

cYrus · Post by **cYrus** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:22 pm

there's no sidechain compressor which removes only the matching frequencies. it will lower the volume of the complete kick (or snare). so it wouldn't make much sense to use sidechain in this case..

Side Chain compression with drum loop development