Thanks SebP!!!

I am a beginner too.

So: what if some of my music is more dreamy and less aggressive? Should I just put the level of the bassdrum down a bit?

No problem, Leo!

Hey Deole,

Glad to hear you’re finding the tutorials useful!

Here’s some answers to your questions:

1. Well, if you use it for achieving that ‘ducking’ effect, then yes. In the “real” sidechain compression, signal A (in EDM, that’s usually the kick) controls the amount of compression applied to signal B (bass, synth, etc in EDM). And keep in mind that compressor is basically an automatic gain controller. If you use Gross Beat for achieving that ducking effect, you basically draw manually how much you want the target signal level to duck.

2. Did you try link? https://howtomakeelectronicmusic.com/how-to-use-sidechain-compression-in-fl-studio/ (let me know if it works or not)

Hope this helps!

I’m a regular on your site, and I have to start off by saying that you have made a huge impact on me as a beginner producer. I’ve learnt so much.

I only have two questions….

1. Is sidechain compression the same as sidechaining with let’s say Gross Beat [I use FL btw] or Kickstart?

and
2. Could you check on the link for the sidechain compression tutorial, because it says the page doesn’t exist when I try to follow the current one

Thanks, in advance,
Deole

What I don’t get is how to layer the drums, or if I’m supposed to divert them to the same insert, like, say 3 kick drums, all to Insert 1. The second question would be: when I sidechained the snare to the kick, it buried everything else, flattening the entire sound that came off worse than when I didn’t attempt any mixing at all! So that’s another thing – if I sidechain more than one thing to the kick, does the gain control them all, or just the kick in relation to the rest?

One more. I haven’t used patterns/playlist yet, as I need to be able to have the whole thing on one screen I can edit as I’m listening through it, so I usually end up on Pattern 1 with 100+ bars, easy. My idea was to split the track into patterns (i.e. Pattern = Instrument) and THEN layer/edit/mix/etc. or is that just doing it backwards? I mean, will it help to have them all on one pattern?

What’s making it harder is, I’m on a Vaio laptop, so it starts to skip and crack pretty quickly if add effects and stuff to more than two prominent tracks, or, if too many instruments are in one place. Can’t even listen to it on FLStudio without headphones, cracks up instantly.

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