Ableton/Live/UG/29 Audio Effect Reference/09 Compressor/02 Compressor Tips
- Ways to use Compressor's sidechain.
- To make background music duck under a narrator, put Compressor on the music track and pick the narration track as the external sidechain.
- Put Compressor on the bass (or Main) track with the kick as the sidechain, so the bass makes room for each kick.
- With only a mixed drum track: use it as the sidechain, enable the sidechain EQ with the low-pass filter, and tune Frequency and Q until only the kick triggers it. Sidechain listen helps.
- Compressor's algorithms were updated in Live 9 with Dr. Joshua D. Reiss of the Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London.