Waves Multiband Compressor Sidechain

The waves audio c6 multiband compressor commonly used for sidechaining.

Waves multiband compressor sidechain.

Softube also gave the 1973 mid side functionality giving engineers the ability to. Well for now i ll simply stick to ableton s sidechain compressor and use waves for everything else effect wise. Building upon their beloved c4 multi band compressor the waves c6 gives engineers a powerful toolset. Waves c6 user guide listen is used to monitor the sidechain.

Compression is triggered by an external key input. The main job of an audio compressor job is to amplify attenuate the peak volumes of a track in order to create volumes closer to the overall average volume. Hope you enjoy my links. The following information is taken from the waves renaissance compressor manual and has been adapted slightly to explain its usefulness and industry standard effectiveness as a side chain compressor.

17th april 2012 7. Let s briefly review the function of a compressor before getting into how to sidechain. This is my first ever tutorial video. Renaissance compressor is a classic warm compressor and expander with a simple optimized interface.

A multiband compressor allows you to split a track into different frequency ranges called bands and compress them independently. You can choose to compress only a certain part of a track s frequency spectrum or apply different flavors of compression to several areas of the spectrum. This is a bit above beginner levels stuff and since i only h. Hey y all i m back with another video.

3758b9b5 045c 4b7d b020 80f9b068d990 07 10 am est. I m thinking if it could be done it ableton i would go into ins and outs then set up some external bus. Internal external. This one s just an insight on the sidechaining process that i use in fl studio.

All the features of the c4 are still present and have been augmented with two additional floating bands and a sidechain among other features. Read more about it here. I made this for the waves tutorial competition. Source is used to choose the sidechain source.

The addition of a sidechain allows the compressor to react to external sources if you need to trigger the gain reduction. I prefer simply choosing an external source and saving the time though.