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Without a threshold level, you won’t hear any compression, so you need to set this first.ĭepending on your signal, you might have different settings here. The threshold will set the db level at which your compressor will begin to react. Next, you’ll want to start changing the threshold, attack & release settings on your compressor.įirst, change the threshold of your compressor. If you want to duck a certain frequency range, you can add multiband sidechain compression, which we’ll explain further down (really useful for sub heavy sidechain Bass compression). Filtering just gives you a slightly altered input that may change the speed and precision of your sidechain compression. The compression will duck the entire signal no matter what. Some tutorials online say that the EQ can affect where the frequency range of your sidechain is ducked, however, this isn’t true. Especially in EDM when you want the sidechain to be heavy, it’s useful to leave much of the low end in, so you can get that long pump effect you want. Sometimes you may want this longer, heavy effect that’s not as precise. If you filter out your lower-end bass, up to 100-200Hz, this leaves the body of the Kick and gives a more clean, precise sidechain compression. Specifically Bass can be a tricky frequency, and due to its loudness, it can cause the compression to squash your signal longer than it needs to be. Using this you can remove some of the Bass from your sidechain input signal, which can be useful when you don’t want the sidechain compression to overload, and last too long. You can choose from a number of filters, but the most likely one you’ll use when sidechaining the Bass to the Kick, is the low pass filter, or the low shelf. The headphone button allows you to listen to the EQ’d/filtered signal that is going into the compressor. This will allow you to sculpt your sidechain input before it goes into the compression phase of the process. Next to the sidechain button, you can select the headphone & EQ button.