Advanced Compression Techniques - Side-Chain Compression

Side-Chaining is such a handy tool to have in your mixing arsenal, regardless of style or genre; I’ve used it just about everywhere. Moving on from my “Compression Basics“ tutorial, it’s really quite simple to set-up, but an understanding of basic compression theory is essential to getting the most out of the SC on your compressor - the results of which are very much worth the effort. Generally, SC is getting one instrument to control the volume of another, by feeding the input of a compressor on the other