With the first technique, we’ll use Fruity Limiter to sidechain a kick to a bass saw synth. Infographic by: Sidechain Compression in FL Studio Using Fruity Limiter Get a look at this handy infographic for a quick run down. This article will outline three different ways to get it done. Sidechaining in FL Studio can be done a few ways depending on what you want your end result to sound like and how much control you want over the sound. The bass volume “ducks” under the kick when the kick is triggered, and this effect makes the low end of the kick more present. The kick signal is used to control the presence of the bass in the mix so the two are not competing against each other in the bass regime of the frequency spectrum (40 Hz to 250 Hz).
In electronic music like trance, house, and techno, we usually do it with the kick and the bass. Sidechaining is a signal processing technique where we use the amplitude (volume) of one signal waveform to control some parameter of another signal. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to sidechain in FL Studio.
