Sidechain Compression in FL Studio Tutorial

Sidechain Compression Tutorial

Using sidechain compression is a technique that musicians in many genres implement. You’ll hear it a lot in dance and other forms of electronic music, but the effect can be used in any genre with a little creativity. Sidechaining is basically using one signal as an input to compress another signal. A common example of this is using the kick drum to compress other tracks to give them that classic pumping sound. Here’s some audio to give you an idea of what I’m talking about.

This is the uncompressed synth and hi-hat track.

Uncompressed example

Next is the same track with a sidechain compressor on it.

Compressed example

I’ve made the compression really pronounced here to emphasize the effect, but the amount can easily be adjusted to fit your song. Also the kick drum is muted here to make the effect stand out. You can hear how the music gets smashed on each beat, gets out of the way of the drum, and has the pump effect.

To set this up you can use the compressor that comes with

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