Creative Use of Multiband Sidechain

Team DECiBEL | 19 Jul 2021 | 1.87GB

DAW – Ableton | Run Time – 01:18:41

A technique made popular many years ago by legendary producers, Daft Punk – sidechain compression has become a staple part of dance music ever since. But – nobody said staple had to mean boring, right? Correct. To breathe new life into this widely known but commonly underused technique, we asked one of electronic music’s most prolific producers – BOT – to take a new look at multiband sidechain methods of production and shine a creative light on some new and exciting ways to implement it into your own productions. Across five chapters, BOT shares his own techniques for using Multiband Sidechain, Compression and Expansion in a creative way; you’ll learn how the process affects the sound, how it can help add a ‘human touch’ to electronic music, how to use it when working with hi hats, and how it impacts the final mixdown. Working from Ableton and using  Pro-MB plugin, BOT’s Creative Use Of Multiband Sidechain tutorial for Mixtank is a masterclass in how to get the very best out of your sound using tips and tricks that BOT commonly applies to his own productions which have seen releases on Mad Decent, Southern Fried, Dirtybird, Relief, Fool’s Gold and more.

OSS v3.0 WiN MAC

Team DECiBEL | 13 Jan 2020 | 64.2 MB

(AU, VST, VST3, x86, x64)

Classic & Timeless Design

OSS delivers every ounce of that magic, classic sound. There’s a sidechain filters (Detector). Plus, you can choose from even more colors by flipping a switch and bypassing the interstage transformer. Perfect for basses and vocals. The “Detector” filters will shape your compressor sidechain. Control low freqs, mid freqs. High Freq will control your high freq sensitivity and tame it. OSS is all about delivering that classic sound, without the classic’s limitations. Another extra feaure is MIX. Now, you can mix your compressed and uncompressed sound!

X v1.3.1 WiN MAC

P2P | 26 June 2021 | 93 MB

X was created with the goal to achieve the biggest sound perceivable within two channels. Utilizing multiple psycho-acoustic effects it has quickly become a unique effect beyond a simple imaging tool. This is your X factor, if a sound is not where you want it, put your secret weapon on it. The power is in your hands now, I know you won’t disappoint me. You are now a sonic dimension creator!

Deflector v1.0.2 WiN

Team AudioUTOPiA | March 13 2016 | 33.3 MB

..:: AAX*, VST, x86, x64 ::..

There seem to be two types of mix engineers: those who own a pair of the original units this plug is inspired by, and those who want to. I can’t give you the original, but I can give you my twisted take on it. For starters, I tweaked the distortions to make them fuzzier, because I have a fondness for dirt & grime. I added a 250Hz sidechain HPF option which leaves all bass frequencies uncompressed, as well as a 6kHz sidechain ‘push’ to smooth out harsh, aggressive stuff. Most compressors press sounds back, this one pushes them forward. The original is in every million dollar studio, now my version can be in yours

MuSiCX v1.03 VST x86 WiN

R2R/MaGeSY® | 19.03.2021 | 2.64 MB

MuSiCX (Multiband Sidechain Compressor & Expander) is a dynamic parametric equaliser with five adjacent bands separated by filters of 2nd to 20th order. Each of these bands’ envelope generators are controlled by pre-filtered signals of any track in a project. The routing between the tracks is done via internal host-independent side chains.

Sidechain Compressor v1.1.0 AU VST MAC

Kleen | 22 Dec 2015 | 20.5 MB

Sidechain Compressor is a flexible VST/AU compressor plug-in. It can be used as a regular channel strip compressor for clean crisp compression & limiting across a wide range of mixing jobs (e.g. adding punch to drum tracks or presence to vocals). For additional flexibility, the sidechain controls (Lo Cut/Hi Cut/Shape) let you customise the compression response. However, Sidechain Compressor’s real party trick is its Universal Sidechain section. This lets you easily do vocal ducking (standard vocal processing in radio production, to fade out music when a narrator is speaking) or add synchronised ducking effects to dance mixes (making your whole mix “pump” or “breathe” by following a kick drum). Universal Sidechains work in most multi-track applications, even those that do not directly support side-chaining. It only takes a few mouse clicks and you’re up and running!

Sidechain Gate v1.1.0 AU VST MAC

Kleen | 22 Dec 2015 | 22.7 MB

Sidechain Gate lets you perform clever mixing techniques, by using a source track to gate a destination track. For example, you can use a complex hi-hat pattern in one track to rhythmically gate a synth pad in another track. Or simplify a busy bass guitar by gating it from a kick drum track (so the bass guitar is only heard when the kick drum sounds). Sidechain Gate also performs brilliantly as a conventional insert effect. The EQ and Shape controls allow you to intelligently gate problem recordings. Say you want to clean up a noisy recording of a snare drum, which has some bleed-through from a crash cymbal. Simply use the Hi Cut control to filter out the higher frequencies, and then the gate will only open when the snare is hit.