Make bangin choons with your newfound production technique. You are now free to mess with the THRESHOLD and RATIO knobs to get the right amount of sidechain compression. Now, when the kick and 808 are played together, the kick should duck the volume of the 808, creating a ducking effect, aka sidechaining. Turn the THRESHOLD knob down to about -24 db and the RATIO knob can be turned up to 2.5:1 The kick is routed into the sidechain compressor applied to the pad track, meaning that when kick signal is received, the compressor pulls the pad track down. Click on the option that says "COMP" and a window with "SIDECHAIN" below it should appear.Ĭlick inside the little window and drag upwards until a "1" appears. Then, click on the 808 mixer track and add a fruity limiter to the effects rack in the 808 channel. Then, while the KICK channel is still highlighted, RIGHT click on the little arrow pointing upwards on the 808 mixer channel.Ĭhoose the SIDECHAIN TO THIS TRACK option and click it.
Place both the kick and the 808 in separate channels in the mixer. You might sometimes set your bass at 8ms and -8ms for a kick.
Remember to as well set your delay for basses at 6ms, yeah, plus 6ms. In order to sidechain with the fruity limiter, you have to: But anyway, if you don’t use automatic, try setting kick at -8ms or -12ms delay. This is how you achieve the ducking effect that you hear in many, if not all, mainstream music. I will try to explain it as best I can because I use sidechaining through the limiter for my tracks.įirst, sidechaining is used to duck the bass and other song elements whenever the kick hits, so you can think of it as a "volume" automation so that the kick can come through loud and clear.