Yeah I think that about covers it, try it out. If you have a slow attack this defeats the purpose. It controls how fast or slow the compression releases before it is triggered again by the kick, or whatever else you have set to trigger it. Also, consider the release, it's a self explanatory knob. If you go soft, it won't be as noticeable but the kick will shine cuz for that split second the compression is tightening up on the synth and the volume is going down somewhat, depending on where you have the threshhold and compression set. Now slowly increase the compression ratio and listen to how the synth ducks behind the kick! If you go hard it will be obvious, and will sound like something deadmau5 made.

Set the threshhold so its about 2/3 of the way down from the peak of the kick waveform. Drop the threshold and as you do it, you will see the wave form of the kick in the display behind the wave form of the synth. Now, ignore the limiter feature, change it to the compressor setting. There won't be any other options but 0 and 1 so long as only the kick is sidechained to it. Drop the compressor THRES amount, and increase the RATIO. In the SIDECHAIN box, either mouse wheel up or click and drag it until it says 1. Put Fruity Limiter on the synth channel, then the little number box on the bottom of the plugin, change it to '1'. Open up your Fruity Limiter on the bass track, and change it from LIMIT to COMP mode. What really makes the kick stand out is this - Sidechain the kick channel to the synth channel. All that Eqing stuff is great and all but it won't get you all the way there. This is how you mix the kick and the synth. Its impossible to create a guide without having to disclaim it since every song, sound and kick are different to another.īut I usually seperate my kick and leads with a -3db volume difference and work on stereo spacial aspects of the lead whilst eqing, that way the lead isnt just dead center to the kick and both have some more space to breathe in the mix, EQ is well described above in one of the other posts, use as a guideline not a rule. I found that if you add reverb in the kick making process, and sample it down to audio and then process it with a gate compress on it to knock out any unwanted tailreverb your kick gets a nice warm air to it without dirty-ing the kick, its a useful thing to try if you find your kicks are not all that prominent. Ive layered kick with clap/ride with reverb, so that kinda helps, but its still not there, so any other tips? And compared to pro´s tracks, it sounds very different. Kok1n:So Ive figured proper reverb setting, but I have one question about kick in mono.īecause after doing that the kick sounds soo dry.

How to sidechain with fruity limiter