#03 Sidechain bass and drums
Apr 20, 2022
3 minutes
with Ashley Thorpe
Let’s start with the basics: compression squashes the loudest parts of an audio signal and boosts the quietest parts, ie reduces the overall dynamic range. Ideally, you should let a song breathe, meaning it should have some dynamics. But compression is a very useful tool used lightly.
Sidechain compression is essentially when the level of one instrument causes a compressor to activate on another instrument. In this tutorial I’ll be using Logic Pro X to show you how to use sidechain compression on
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