i'm not sure i understand. turn ur compressor off?

first off.. what program are you using?

second, do you still want the "pumping" caused by the sidechaining without the kick being there?

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Originally posted by Emvy Hey guys, i currently sidechain using the kick drum as the trigger. How would you sidechain using something else? Something silent. i have parts of my track that its only the strings that need to be compressed but the kick kills it - i dont need it to be there.

Its quite hard to understand exactly what you mean but i think this:

I think you need to create a new track to use as your sidechain
signal input.

Create a copy of your kick drum, if needed remove beats from certain
areas of the song and use this as your signal input, it should be
possible depending on your compressor to have this track as silent
and only acting as an input signal.

yea thats what im trying to figure out how to do. When i mute or change my kick drum, the compressor stops. Anyone else have any ideas?

list your DAW and compressor then maybe someone can help, i dont
really have much experience in sidechaining so dont think i can
help any further, i only know its easy to do in FL studio with the
peak controller.

and try to re-explain the problem a little more clearer, it almost
sounds like you might be compressing your whole track with the kick
rather than choose single elements, but not sure :-)

yates.

well im using cubase and my compressor is free wear its called sidechain compresser lol.

But i rewire to FL studio so how do u do compressor in FL studio?

have a look here.

http://www.wonderhowto.com/how-to/v...-studio-130514/

Not sure how to do it in FL but in Cubase, make a 2nd channel of your kick, pull the fader all the way down so its muted, then use one of the sends on it to send to your channel that has your SC compressor loaded. This will trigger the sidechain even when all is silent. There is a more thorough method involving a quadro channel and 2 child buses but I would just Youtube sidechaining and there is a 2 minute tutorial that shows just how to do this.

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yea the way i currently do it is with a quadro group channel and 2 child buses and it works fine. but ima try this tomorrow again

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Originally posted by Emvy yea the way i currently do it is with a quadro group channel and 2 child buses and it works fine. but ima try this tomorrow again

Just create a copy of ur kickdrum track, turn the volume of it all the way down, and then use pre-fader send on the channel.

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Just create a copy of ur kickdrum track, turn the volume of it all the way down, and then use pre-fader send on the channel

What i was going to say. Just turn the fader down and set the channel to pre-fade. That way the signal is being sent before the fader. I use this all the time when balancing wet/dry effects on several groups.