We sidechain kick and bass not particularly to save headroom - though it might very often save some headroom - but to have a more consistent and controlled bass in the mix by avoiding phase cancellation. When the bass instruments play together at the same time phase cancellations can occur between the two waves because the bass sounds are more prone to cancellation due to occupying a closer frequency range to one to another(20hz-200hz) compared the rest of the frequency spectrum where you have a lesser chance of frequencies clashing with each others . Sometimes you actually increase the peak by sidechaining the kick and because you got rid of the phase cancellation which was lowering the overall volume.

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a trick you can do is the 60,000 second trick then divide by whatever note you want musically and set the compressor release accordingly

@yinjiro4984

2 ай бұрын

Bro i make beats, ur explaining Einsteins theory of relativity lol jk but us there a name to this trick?

@Tightwire

2 ай бұрын

@@yinjiro4984 idk any official names but it can be a really good way to get clean compression especially when sidechaining

@targaryen2077

2 ай бұрын

What he means is to divide the BPM of the session by 60,000. This will give you the quarter note time of your actual session in milliseconds. You can then choose to divide the quarter note time in half (if you’d like). You can use that time to set the reverb time, compression release time or any other time based effect.

@Tightwire

2 ай бұрын

@@targaryen2077 yes thank you 🙏