Stereo side chain compressor?

[UvRayz]

Hi,
I've been playing around with a sidechain compressor, but I can only use it by putting it on a group channel and then sending the key to the left and the audio channel to the right. that way I lose the stereo signal for the audio I want compressed.

Is there a plugin that does that in stereo? (and sounds good)

Thanks

[citizenchunk]

well, Vanilla Compressor does just that, but whether it "sounds good" is a matter of opinion... (do you want mine?)

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[Rune L-H]

Hi,
I've been playing around with a sidechain compressor, but I can only use it by putting it on a group channel and then sending the key to the left and the audio channel to the right. that way I lose the stereo signal for the audio I want compressed.

Is there a plugin that does that in stereo? (and sounds good)

Thanks

The basic concept of this is identical to most stereo sidechain compressors. The trick is to define the group channel as a quadro group channel and route the audio to the front speakers, and the sidechain to the back speakers. This will allow true sidechaining.

Check out this video tutorial: http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=75879

[kritikon]

And Rune is being very modest by not recommending his Compadre compressor.

So I will instead - Compadre is the very stereo sidechain compressor (that also happens to sound extremely good) that you want.

It's cheap for the quality it oozes, you get a mono version, a stereo version, and it competes with Kjaerhus GCO1 IMO for real character compression.
And it's got one of the nicest GUIs (always helps when it looks pretty ).

Seriously - it's a good'un. Follow the link at the bottom of his post for OtiumFX.