Need a Good SideChain Compressor/Ducker

[fabriciom]

Hello, Im having a hard time creating that nice bumping effect on my bass using the kicks as a sidechain signal. I remember I could do this in Pro Tools perfectly. Can you guys recommend a plug that will do this well?

 

-Thanks

 

P.S. Im using as a signal my processed kick audio track. Maybe Im doing something wrong?

[David Nahmani]

Logic's "compressor" plug-in can do it very well. Make sure you adjust the threshold (downward) until you can see activity when you hear the kick, and raise the ratio to taste.

[fabriciom]

Logic's "compressor" plug-in can do it very well. Make sure you adjust the threshold (downward) until you can see activity when you hear the kick, and raise the ratio to taste.

 

I could not get it to work as well as say softube valley people dyna-mite. Best I could get was with the expander.

[David Nahmani]

Not sure why you can't get it to work, it works great. I do it all the time. Many of your favorite dance music acts are doing it with the Logic compressor, I saw them demo it at the WMC.

 

I remember one producer who wasn't doing it with a compressor at all, but with fade ins: using Option-scissors to slice the bass region in many equal-length regions, and applying batch fade ins to all of them, adjusting the length and curve of the fade to get the desired effect.

[Kent Sandvik]

Logic's "compressor" plug-in can do it very well. Make sure you adjust the threshold (downward) until you can see activity when you hear the kick, and raise the ratio to taste.

 

I could not get it to work as well as say softube valley people dyna-mite. Best I could get was with the expander.

 

Suspect it has to do with the settings you did with the built-in compressor. YouTube has many examples how to do side-chain compression with Logic's built-in compressor.