Sidechaining help on HH bleed

[whataburger]

Howdy,

I am a Nuendo user and have never tried to use sidechaining. I know that one of the gripes Nuendo users has is that the program isn't set up for sidechaining. I have heard that there are workarounds for this. That is what I need. I have a multitude of plugins that have sidechaining options including Waves C1.

My main problem with this snare track is that I have alot of High Hat bleed. How can I use sidechaining in the box to correct this. If someone could give me step by step instructions on how to gate it out, I would be appreciative.

Thanks.

 

[Yareek]

I guess you could do this with sidechaining ducking (i.e. on a hihat mic), but I'd imagine you'd get better results with a noise gate that has sidechain EQ. Floorfish is a cheap one that isn't really all that fancy, but gets the job done. I use Sonitus (Sonar), which is the best gate I've found. Don't know about the Waves stuff, but doesn't the C1 have a sidechain EQ for gating?

 

[Atterion]

Well there are tutorials available from Voxengo and Slim Slow Slider, on how to use there plugins with a 4 channel Group object for side-chaining. But those plugins are designed to side-chain via normal ins and outs that are setup to utulise the group channels I/O. The Side-chain inputs in your waves plugins (As well as others don't function this way). Steinberg is still working on this. This is the only reason I didn't upgrade from Cubase SX2 to SX3, and still keep my old copy of Logic around. Rumor has it though that VST3 which is to be introduced in SX4 (Not sure for you Nuendo users), will finally included proper side-chain support. Yaayy!!!!