How to ACTUALLY sidechain in FL Studio

Automation vs Fruity Limiter vs "Hybrid" Method
Plus I take a look at "Smoothing" and how it affects sidechaining.

Disclaimer: The content in this video has been used for educational purposes in accordance with section 107 of US Copyright Law.

You can use my instrumentals/remakes for parodies/covers/etc (credit is appreciated), but remember, you should always have permission from the song's publisher and/or rightful owners!

[DylanTallchief]

Another point against sidechaining with automation (both methods) is that it can become desync'd if there lots of latency on the track getting sidechained.
So it won't sidechain in time with the rest of the track and will feel off.

If you use automation to sidechain it doesn't make you a bad producer or that you make bad music, but it's a flawed method and there are better alternatives out there imo.

[coilovercat]

*sidechain 101:*

step 1: make a song without bass
step 2: make the bass
step 3: publish both songs, separately
step 4: in description, ask people to play both parts at the same time
step 5: with bass part, ask people to turn down volume at the correct times
step 6: ????
step 7: profit

[OscarSantosMusic]

How to ACTUALLY sidechain:

play the audio and record it with microphone

Move microphone closer and further

Done 😎

[mickey]

Tip: instead of routing and turning the volume down on the sidechain channel right click the arrow and select sidechain instead of routing!

[happyw]

Fruity Peak Controller for sidechain 😎

[isnanrooney]

Producer : Spent so much time for a very advance and detailed mixing technique to make your music sounds amazingly good


Listener : I don't hear any difference, it's just literally sounds like music

[vantasycai]

Noob: volume automation
Pro: Fruity Limiter blablabla...
Me: KickStart

[MaemiNoYume]

All Nighter vol. 3 album is fantastic. I can't get enough of it. Every track is absolutely gorgeous

[DJGRILO]

I always use the Kickstart plugin, and then i automate it on the playlist, and i turn it up or down depending of the track section. It´s easier. Nice video!

[MuttleyGames]

Put a Peak Controller on the bass
Put a Stereo enhancer on the thing u wanna sidechain.
Link volume knob to Peak controller(peak)
Fine tune the amount of sidechain with the peak controller with
a visual representation of the curve.
Easy :D

[Aerox]

I've used peak controller for sidechaining since 2003, and I have no intentions breaking up with it! 😂

[hamronepal]

I just come closer and further from my microphone while screaming

[vitoftw]

Ok so let's have a deal, I'll iron your shirts and you tell me how to master my music skills.

[WhoCaresThough]

Why is no one talking about the peak controller? Imo far easier to set up and pretty much the same results

[belkadimusic]

I've never learned so much about sidechain till this video. Thank you Dylan.

[AlvoGTR]

whenever i do use volume automation, i use balance because it's so old it doesnt have smoothing.

[NiedzwiedzMistrzu]

I love Sidechain with LFO Tool. I really recommend that.

[Rannument]

My technique is to put the kick and the side chain tracks to one channel with the limiter, I would increase the volume of the kick really high and set a ceiling. So whenever the kick plays the limiter has to decrease the volume of the other things to let the kick in. This is a technique that Fox Stevenson uses as well.

[waterbottle]

I use automation for sidechaining then grouping the kick with the automation clip so they move together when copying so you don't have to select both. Also, I like using automation because I don't just use them for sidechaining but also volume automation. I like having both features.

Edit: NEVER use the fader for sidechaining or any automation. It has smoothing. Like Dylan said, you can't adjust your fader anymore. Use Fruity Balance because it doesn't have smoothing. Shout out to SeamlessR! Thank you for teaching me this!

[lilkeish]

Every time I watch one of your vids I learn something new, I appreciate these