AA3 Week 6 - Side Chaining

This weeks exercise was to use side-chaining in three examples. I choose three ways in which I have actually used it in my music "career". Yes my career still has a long way to go but I have used side-chaining a fair bit particularly in the last year or so.

In my first example I have a song playing in the background and I have plugged in a microphone (a real cheapy from home which is why it sounds soooo dodgy) into my mbox. The input of the microphone is the input sidechain to the compressor on my track with the song playing. Then I have done a typical voice over for Fresh FM. I work at Fresh FM in production and as a DJ. I have a long release time on the compressor so you can hear the volume gradually go up again.

The second example is a song I've produced that uses side-chaining on the bass with the kick drum. I have included two clips since the section I wanted to show went for too long.

The third example is simply using a gate instead of a compressor. The only time I use a gate is when I produce with analogue gear to hide the noise floor. In my example I have simply sent a tone generator through a gate and triggered with a snare.



tone triggered using a snare through a gate


AUDIO
Voice Over Example [1.2MB]
Dance Track Example [872KB]
Tone Gate Example [216KB]


[1] David Grice. "Audio Arts: Semester 1 - Week 6 - Side-Chaining". Lecture presented at the Electronic Music Unit, University of Adelaide, South Australia, 8th April 2008

[2] Mellor, David. 1996, STAR GATE! Using the Drawmer DS201 dual gate Sound on Sound, http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/1996_articles/jan96/drawmergate.html (viewed 13/1/2007)

[3] White, Paul 2001, Advanced Gating Techniques 1, Sound on Sound, viewed 12/2 2007, http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/apr01/articles/advanced.asp (viewed 12/2 2007)

[4] White, Paul 2001, Advanced Gating Techniques 2, Sound on Sound, http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may01/articles/advancedgating.pt2.asp (viewed 12/2 2007)