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Sidechain Compression & Volume Ducking Explained - Creating Tracks

For more helpful music production tutorials, visit these great websites! http://creatingtrance.com http://creatingbreaks.com http://creatingelectronica.com http://creatingedm.com This video tutorial breaks down how to set up side chain compression to achieve professional volume ducking for your music production. It's a great way to get your kick drum to cut through the mix better and it's super easy to do! There is no reason for this topic to be as confusing as many people make it. It's a basic process of routing audio into a compressor to use as a trigger for volume ducking. In this case we look at using the audio signal from a kick drum to automate volume ducking on a synth pad to create more room for the kick drum in the mix. It's a very common practice in today's music production world, especially in the electronic and dance genres. Ducking just means that you reduce the volume of one track to make room for audio on another track in a project. There are a couple of really great reasons to use a compressor to accomplish this. First, you can automate the ducking, saving you valuable production time. Second, you can be rather surgical in how the ducking is handled and delivered through making use of the compressor settings. The term side chain (also commonly spelled as one word) simply refers to an auxiliary or alternative audio source or signal for your plugins (or hardware devices, in the real world) to respond to. By default, most plugins are immediately receiving and affecting audio from the track they are running on. But a side chain feature allows you to route audio from another channel or track into the device. In this case, we routed the audio signal of a kick drum into the compressor affecting the synth pad in order to automate a consistent volume reduction at the same time the kick drum is heard in the mix. The end result is a simple solution to the problem of having so many sounds vying for both the listeners attention and the speakers ability to reproduce the audio accurately. For a fraction of a second the kick drum can shine above one or more sounds in the mix, allowing it to drive the music forward. Cheers, OhmLab