Sidechaining cymbals with a kick drum.... settings and/or combinations?
Hi all, I'm a new FF user and have been greatly enjoying the unparalleled flexibility that these plugins give in creating new soundscapes and concepts. As someone still learning the ropes, I just had a bit of a tricky question about sidechain compression as it relates to the wonderful rabbit hole of mixing drums.
For context, I'm running a set of MIDI drums into Logic through Kontakt and have individually routed dedicated channels for kick, snare, toms, hats, ride, and OH's, with an extra bus channel for reverb/room mics.
So... in terms of what sound I'm shooting for, I have my cymbal channels sidechained to the kick in Pro-Q 4, Pro-MB, and Pro-C as part of an experiment (which... I'm not so sure I need all of them sidechained in this way but it's for testing right now). I'm attempting to get a ducking sort of sound where the initial impact of the crashes are greatly softened until immediately after the kick drum's impact, resulting in a heavy wash of cymbals in the immediate wake of the kick.
I've been playing around with the knobs and various settings of the above three plugins along with Pro-G (which, at least from what I'm seeing so far, will help decrease wash time after the cymbal wash is heard), but have been unsuccessful in this regard. So my question on this topic is: what settings should the EQ and compressor(s) have, and what order in the signal chain should they be to achieve this particular sound?
Hi all, I'm a new FF user and have been greatly enjoying the unparalleled flexibility that these plugins give in creating new soundscapes and concepts. As someone still learning the ropes, I just had a bit of a tricky question about sidechain compression as it relates to the wonderful rabbit hole of mixing drums.
For context, I'm running a set of MIDI drums into Logic through Kontakt and have individually routed dedicated channels for kick, snare, toms, hats, ride, and OH's, with an extra bus channel for reverb/room mics.
So... in terms of what sound I'm shooting for, I have my cymbal channels sidechained to the kick in Pro-Q 4, Pro-MB, and Pro-C as part of an experiment (which... I'm not so sure I need all of them sidechained in this way but it's for testing right now). I'm attempting to get a ducking sort of sound where the initial impact of the crashes are greatly softened until immediately after the kick drum's impact, resulting in a heavy wash of cymbals in the immediate wake of the kick.
I've been playing around with the knobs and various settings of the above three plugins along with Pro-G (which, at least from what I'm seeing so far, will help decrease wash time after the cymbal wash is heard), but have been unsuccessful in this regard. So my question on this topic is: what settings should the EQ and compressor(s) have, and what order in the signal chain should they be to achieve this particular sound?
Thank you so much!