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| meneedit |
| What is the most kickass sidechain track you've ever heard? |
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| bobba lou |
| Jose Amnesia - Heaven Drops |
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| A.J. |
I'm guessing sidechain is some kind of waveform or synth or something?
I quite like Santiago Nino - Believe (Max Graham's Sidechain Remix), but i'm not exactly sure what a sidechain is.
Can someone please explain? :conf: |
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| Tranc3 |
The sidechain the OP is probably referring to is sidechain compression, where one track is linked to a compressor and triggers the compressor based on the compressor settings and the track feeding into it. With a low threshold, average-to-high ratio and no makeup gain, you can achieve a "pumping" sound much akin to someone putting their hand on the upfader of a mixer and moving up and down in a rhythmic fashion. Typically this is done on a four-to-the-floor track (not necessarily a 4/4 track for the musically ignorant out there), with the feeder track being the kick and the compressed track being a pad of some sort.
Of course sidechaining in and of itself doesn't necessarily refer to a compression technique. You could, for example, sidechain a beep onto a vocal, with a reverb effect being turned on and off. In effect, whenever the beep was heard, the vocal would get reverberated.
Sidechaining is also a form of daisy-chaining, where instead of having everything connected to a centralized focal point, something at the end of the chain must travel through several nodes before reaching the focal point.
So to answer the OP's question...I really like James Holden's Solstice - easily his best work. |
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| BshidoHEAT |
Holy crap, Tranc3 wins this thread!
Anyway, if you want to hear some sidechaining, I do it in my PVD remix. Pretty simple concept. Usually as, tranc3 said, done with 4 on the floor kick pattern, with a long note playing and fading in and out between kicks, I usually do it with my bassline.
My faveorite sidechain track would be Nu NRG and Murphy Brown - Aloa P |
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| Rodas |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nsonic
Sample, anyone? |
Go listen to pretty much any Probspot production / remix.
Rodas |
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| Nsonic |
so is a sidechain like the bass in the main eh..verse (after the climax) in
Scot Project - FM3 |
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| A.J. |
I would imagine that the deep, rolling baseline heard in many "McProg" tracks could be classified as a "sidechain" then?
Stuff like Probspot, Markus Schulz etc |
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| DRM |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nsonic
so is a sidechain like the bass in the main eh..verse (after the climax) in
Scot Project - FM3 |
yes and the lead is sidechained too and that was the track i was going to say too. Amazing sidechaining |
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| flavdave |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranc3
Sidechaining is also a form of daisy-chaining |
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| paranoik0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tranc3
James Holden's Solstice |
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