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sixer2007
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Last night, I was working on a track and found something a bit odd.
The track has some gang vocals in a sparse outro that were over powering the lead vox at points, so I set a side-chain comp to duck them a bit for the lead. That was all fine, and I was using the standard Cubase compressor.
Then, I wanted to duck the bass track a bit to the Kick in the outro as well. I proceeded to put the comp on the bass track, and activate side-chain. Then, when I went to the kick track, the side-chain couldn't be selected from the sends menu, although the gang vox one was present.
I'm wondering if this has to do with my busses? I'll explain...
I have a mic'd and DI bass track, routed to a mono buss (this is where I put the compressor). All my drum tracks are routed to a buss. Both of those are then routed to a final buss that I call "groove". So, is it not possible to side-chain two things like this that both end up at a final fader? That doesn't really make sense, because in the end, they all go to the master fader anyway right?
At first, I thought maybe you could only have one side-chain set up per project, but that seemed impossible. I then tested this to put a side-chain on some guitars keyed to the vocals, and it worked. My send menu gave me a new little folder called "Side-chains" and the two for the vocals were there.
Any ideas?
The track has some gang vocals in a sparse outro that were over powering the lead vox at points, so I set a side-chain comp to duck them a bit for the lead. That was all fine, and I was using the standard Cubase compressor.
Then, I wanted to duck the bass track a bit to the Kick in the outro as well. I proceeded to put the comp on the bass track, and activate side-chain. Then, when I went to the kick track, the side-chain couldn't be selected from the sends menu, although the gang vox one was present.
I'm wondering if this has to do with my busses? I'll explain...
I have a mic'd and DI bass track, routed to a mono buss (this is where I put the compressor). All my drum tracks are routed to a buss. Both of those are then routed to a final buss that I call "groove". So, is it not possible to side-chain two things like this that both end up at a final fader? That doesn't really make sense, because in the end, they all go to the master fader anyway right?
At first, I thought maybe you could only have one side-chain set up per project, but that seemed impossible. I then tested this to put a side-chain on some guitars keyed to the vocals, and it worked. My send menu gave me a new little folder called "Side-chains" and the two for the vocals were there.
Any ideas?