5 Minutes To A Better Mix II: Sidechain Compression - TheRecordingRevolution.com

[xMasterxRazorx]

As a live sound engineer...I am jealous of all the tools you recording people have available to you.

[Selinus42]

Thank you.



[bobhowyousay]

Graham,

What I'm unclear about in this situation is whether you are sending directly from a vocal track or from a bus that the vocals are sent to.

[recordingrevolution]

@bobhowyousay I'm sending the vocal to a bus, which is then sent to the compressor's key input

[KerepesiMarcell]

For the further tutorials, could you include the name of the songs that you are using, just so we can have a listen to the final product? Thanks. :)

[benjaminpatingjr]

Nice!

[Stevo7388]

that one's gold! onya graham.

[buisk]

cool!

[hotboy2093]

Thanks Graham for all these vids..they will help me a lot on a project i'm doing.

Have a good one!!

[TCKeys7]

I saw the side chain option om my compressor but I never knew how to use it. Thanks for putting this information out there. I know I definitely can use this in my mixing. I should have asked you all along. :) Been following along with you all month. All of the tips and techniques have been very helpful!! Blessings!!

[Elnufo]

great trick. now the only thing left to do for me is trying to figure out how to do this in FL Studio. Anyone out there who has an idea on that ??

[HerrKitzler]

@Elnufo Check your YouTube! inbox.

[facteurkaloun]

What a wonderful world :) Thanks Graham.

[Hedleyk1]

Very good tip. What is the song out of interest?

[nexusser]

Great video!

[xx2n26]

The guitars sound unnatural and squashed with the compressor. Adjusting volumes and eq is probably a better option.

[kernman2]

Awesome tip! They do this very thing in broadcasting, like the radio, as music fades in or out. Listen to the radio d.j. as he/she announces a song, or relates who sings it, as it ends or begins. Thanks so much for the whole 31 days worth!

[TheMusicDude1997]

ATTENTION EVERYONE !

I would like to know how to achieve the long reverb used in many Radiohead songs, for example, House Of Cards - check it out here on youtube. I have tried many things, like using 2 reverbs, one of them with a predelay.

ANY IDEAS ??? ANYONE ??? thanks ;)

[byouno93]

@TheMusicDude1997 it's basically a reverbed delay. Just judging by the character it sounds like it's through some sort of hardware verb too.

[DynastyUKOfficial]

@TheMusicDude1997 Isnt it just a ridiculously long Decay? but on a seperate bus.sounds like a slight echo effect in there too. but the echo is on the reverb bus, :)

[Elnufo]

@TheMusicDude1997 i think the reverb is on an extra bus and after the reverb some kind of compression is going on to keep it audible for so long.

[sdeanmusic]

Nice! TY!

[JrdnDncn]

Is this either Silverstory or Backward Glance?

[jericho667]

that's really helpful! thank you!

[HughHeyworthMusic]

This is perfect for a mix I'm working on at the moment, thank you so much,

[TCOMrecords]

this is so effin simple.. BUT WHY IN DA HELL DID I NOT THINK OF THIS B4 ..O_o.. haha thanks Graham!

[1MaginAZN]

This is an AMAZING tip! Thanks Graham!

[SaulAeneas]

Thanks Graham, this tip was just what i was needing for my clients rock version of Gym Class Hero's "@#$ Back Home". I use sidechain comp on drums quite a bit but never thought of using it on guitars, I always figured that when guitars are overdriven their compressed enough and don't need anything except maybe a limiter and a little eq. Great tip as always!