Kick And Bass Sidechain: 5 Minutes To A Better Mix - TheRecordingRevolution.com

Part 11 of 31 - Are your kick drum and bass guitar fighting in the mix? This little trick might just help you get a bit of separation.

[Stevo]

Its ok to show subtle but also show a little extreme and then back to subtle to drive the lesson home. there's the hot tip for ya, Graham. Keep up the good work.

[TheBigBird]

My ears have always noticed side-chained kick and bass although i used to have no idea what that was. I assumed it was possibly my ears naturally compressing the sound in a rock mix. I've loved that effect, and now I know how to emulate it! Thanks!

[busyworksbeats]

This is a great technique I almost forgot II used it in my old tracks

[DavidEstioco]

Your tutorials are so straight forward and simple and easy to understand. I have little knowledge of mixing and for me to understand everything you've explained means that you did a really incredible job in explaining.

[jeromesheerin]

one of the best protools tutorials technique Iv seen on youtube...

[JayLoveBeats]

Great video ! Short n sweet & to the point. Thanks.

[Derpadeedooda]

These videos are the best mixing tutorials on youtube. Thanks a lot

[danabarnes]

Basic instructions. Perfect! Thanks. Your production sounds lovely too

[lusic]

NICE! I'm going to try this tonight on some stuff I recorded last night!

[LucasMichalski]

Why do you have to create new bus and send that kick to that bus? Why cannot you use just kick track to trigger that compressor? Same thing you were doing using side compression on vocals, sending guitars to different bus and using that bus to trigger the compression. Why you have to use new bus and cannot use the actual track? For example using kick track to trigger side compression on bass? Thanks

[KaslarProductions]

For you metal guys out there, I like to side chain my snare to the guitars. So my snare triggers the key on the guitars compressor. you need to be more carful with this one but It will help give the snare some room to cut through.

[AOK]

This may be a bit too deep discernible wise for the newbie BUT they'll use it down the road. I was wondering what all you'd do in the 30+ days. I figured you'd have to delve into much deeper processing...and you do. Rock on, or as always, we'll hurt 'cha bad if you don't! Good one again. Blessings

[QueEstaPasando_YT]

Simple but great explanation.

Ty sir!

[RYAN-zmkr]

Great explanation, straight to the point!

[SerjDin]

great tip! it's very helpful. thank you very much for your videos.

[MaximusRoy]

Thank you very much! Straight to the point and clear.

[sighermike]

+Dear Me, don't be too frustrated.  It's something that comes with a little time and training your ear to hear them. You just have to keep working at it and eventually you'll hear nuances that you never heard before. I find myself hearing things in pro mixes I never realized were there before I started mixing.  I've been doing this for a few years now.

[SamuelginTV]

this technique is great live to use with the bass/keys and kick, as well as something like vocals compressing the lead guitar, and the lead guitar compressing the rhythm guitar, so there's a pecking order for the more important elements without eliminating the meat and potatoes

[arthurazoubel]

Great tip, but I have a couple questions:

1-Why did you send the original signal from the kickdrum to a buss and then made the sidechain assigned to that buss? Why don't simply assign the sidecahin to the original kickdrum channel (pre-fader)? Would that be wrong?

2-What if I got a faster kickdrum? I mean, not a heavy metal one, double bass, not quite that, but just not so mellow like this one. I would have to adjust the release of the bass compression to match the input signal (in this case, the kickdrum), but the bass could sound to bumpy, right? How could I manage that?

[LeoAr]

I'd say it's not just another trick in the book. It's really standard, listen to the last three green day cd's, Huge ducking (this trick) and it was mixed by CLA. Not to promote my channel but I used this on my last two covers. Cheers.