Micro Tutorial 18 - Sidechain compression Video Lecture | Reason Tutorials: The Ultimate Guide - Video & Sound Editing

welcome to another micro tutorial today
we'll take a look at how to use
sidechain compression and record
sidechain compression or sidechaining is
basically triggering compression of an
audio signal from another audio source
before we go into the details let's look
at an example here's my voice playing on
this track and triggering the compressor
on this audio track when we turn on the
compressor the music will start ducking
when I speak Ostrow Nissi honest finnish
forest reindeer my hovercraft is full of
eels anyway a more musical use for
sidechain is to have the bass drum
trigger the compression of another sound
such as vocals a pad or a loop like in
this example
whenever the bass drum plays the pad
ducks giving us a pumping sound popular
and electronic dance music there are two
compressors you can do this with the
dynamic section in the mixer and the
m-class compressor let's start with the
m-class one here we have a bass drum
loaded into a reed rum device will use
this kick to trigger the compression on
this pad first we'll create a compressor
as an insert on the pad channel then we
flip the rack by pressing tab and take
the two device outputs from the drum
channel and connect them to the
sidechain inputs on the compressor now
we only need to adjust the amount of
compression to our liking and by our
liking I mean
dialing everything up to 11
when using the dynamic section in the
mixer we just need to connect the cables
to the dynamics inputs on the pads mix
channel and turn on the compressor in
the mixer
like so
side chain compression record cheesy as
that