Multiband compressor for side chaining the snare?

[Gigabaros]

So I've been toying with the idea of using a Multiband compressor to side chain the snare. I couldn't imagine it not working well.
Say putting a heavy side chain around the hz where the punch of you're snare is. I don't have a multiband compressor that does this, though, so I can't try it myself atm. Just a thought!

Would there be any downsides to this? Anyone tried it?

[jrisreal]

I do a similar technique regularly. Put an eq on every instrument that occupies the same space as the snare and take out those frequencies. Sidechain that eq to the snare so that it only applies when the snare hits. Then when there is no snare, other instruments won't sound awkward being eq'd like that.

[Triphosphate]

@jrisreal

[Mammoth]

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[jrisreal]

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[Triphosphate]

HAHA the face that guys making

I came really close to making that same face when I read your post, but this guys obviously better at it.

[Teknicyde]

Sidechain everything to everything else. Its a creative process. Your building rules up where there are none.

and besides, you said yourself it would work perfectly for what you want to accomplish (ducking certain frequencies)

The whole idea of producing is to understand how the tools work, and then use them in creative ways.

[Manic Harmonic]

I do a similar technique regularly. Put an eq on every instrument that occupies the same space as the snare and take out those frequencies. Sidechain that eq to the snare so that it only applies when the snare hits. Then when there is no snare, other instruments won't sound awkward being eq'd like that.

How would you do this? I've used a similar technicue using a noise gate on a phase inverted track with that frequency range boosted, but this sounds way easier. I have quite a few eq's and I don't think any of them have a sidechain input.

[narcissus]

hmm... took me a second to get what you're saying. i like it! gonna mess around with effects racks tomorrow and try it, also maybe with white noise builds to.

[mikeyp]

I do a similar technique regularly. Put an eq on every instrument that occupies the same space as the snare and take out those frequencies. Sidechain that eq to the snare so that it only applies when the snare hits. Then when there is no snare, other instruments won't sound awkward being eq'd like that.

How would you do this? I've used a similar technicue using a noise gate on a phase inverted track with that frequency range boosted, but this sounds way easier. I have quite a few eq's and I don't think any of them have a sidechain input.

not sure what you're using but in FL using parametric eq 2, for example, you'd just link the band that was at the frequency you wanted to dip out to the peak controller

[Triphosphate]

Alternately, in FL you can send everything you want to be sidechained to a send and have the sidechain control the wet/dry value of the EQ. It'll just have to be at 0 or 100% to not introduce phasing, right?

[jrisreal]

Yeah Mikey has it right. Could also use the envelope controller for more precision.