In this video, I demonstrate the following: 1. What is sidechaining; what is a side chain? 2. How to set up a side chain compression ducking effect. 3. How to use sidechaining as a mixing tool to make room for vocals. 4. how to use the side chain input in the ES2 synthesizer to control modulation effects. Support the sponsor of this video, Boombox | bit.ly/boomboxsponsor For mixing/mastering work, contact me at my website | carneymediagroup.com Follow MusicTechHelpGuy on Instagram | instagram.com/musictechhelpguy Support the channel on Patreon | patreon.com/musictechhelpguy Timestamps: 0:00 What is Sidechaining? 2:08 Sponsor Segment 2:47 Ducking Effect 7:59 With Drum Machine Designer 9:10 Input Filter 12:00 With Arpeggiators + Reverb 14:31 RMS vs. Peak (Heavier Ducking) 16:00 Mixing with Vocals 21:25 With Synth Modulation (ES2)
Holy shhhhhhit. I wish u can do tutorials on the logic instruments. I never understood some of the parameters in, among others, ES2. I was always wondering what those parameters do. Man u explain this so easy. It’s shocking what u can do with those parameters 😱. So amazing 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾. Pls do more modulation techniques explaining the parameters of the logic instruments starting from the top of the list pls. Btw that rms and sum docking/peaking in the compression was always a mistery. U explain it so good using the low end of the drums. Thank you sooooo much. Another mistery solved. Especially if u want to sidechaine using a drum sample. That’swhy I never use drumsample, but now I will try because of the low end filter technique in the compressor to sidechain.
Well this is the topic that I never really understood so far: side chaining. Especially parts 1 and 2 are very important for me, probably not part 3 as it’s too time-consuming for me. I‘ll use kick and bass side chaining from now on and probably also the instrument/vocal side chain. Thanx so much. I’m a little behind in watching the modules (that concerns #46 and 48) due to lack of time at the moment, but they‘re there when I need them. 💪🏻👏🏻👍🏻🙏🏻 So next will be #50 …
Do you ever use a Bus/Aux when using side compression instead of placing directly on the track? I see this done at times and wondered what the pros/cons to this are. Thank you for this whole series of vids MTHG.
Not the velocity, per se, but the volume level of the output of the instrument. So if the side chain source is an instrument that is velocity sensitive for volume, then yes, it will make a difference.
Hey Josh, Say I have a song with a lot of instrumentals and my lyrics come in and out in between several bars. Suppose I want the singer to duck the instruments while singing. Would I want to use side chaining on the instruments (and how would I set that up) or just use automation on the various volume levels? This is all just hypothetical. Gianni❤
The use case about making space for vocals doesn't seem intuitive to me. It seems like the louder the vocals are, the more the instrumental will get ducked, but shouldn't it be the opposite; the quieter the vocals are the more the instrumental will get ducked?
Yeah that changed a long time ago. In the earlier versions of Logic 10, you could only have audio tracks be side chain sources, so you'd have to convert MIDI to audio in order to do it, or route through an aux track first. I think as of version 10.2, you can route directly from instrument tracks.
Dang I didn’t even know but did see instruments for side chaining and just thought that you had to still do it using an audio track for some reason I didn’t know. That’s cool. Thanks.
It definitely ducks more than RMS because it's taking into the full dynamic range of the transient. I'd definitely use it if you want a more noticeable ducking effect, and for softer effects RMS works well.
I find myself wanting to do more custom sound manipulation and engineering inside of alchemy. I know my way around serum very well and that’s what I always use if I have to manipulate the parameters of a synthesizer simply because I will kill me is not as user-friendly on the interface. I would love to know how to manipulate alchemy the same way I know how to manipulate serum because alchemy has some really cool synthesizers but it’s hard to use them if you can’t really manipulate them to work within your track I hope someday logic will update the user interface on alchemy and make it more user-friendly
