Topmusicanswers
- Can you use sidechain compression?
- Is sidechain and parallel compression the same?
- Is sidechain compression necessary?
Can you use sidechain compression?
Sidechain compression can theoretically be used in any genre of music, but by far, it is most associated with dance music—EDM, house, and pretty much any other genre you'd hear in a contemporary nightclub.
Is sidechain and parallel compression the same?
Parallel compression adds focus and contrast to a signal where as side-chain compression is used for dynamic control of a specific element in a signal.
Is sidechain compression necessary?
It's pretty much always a preference, because the main reason to sidechain is to give the kick/snare more room. You can also sidechain certain frequencies of a sound to drop whenever another sound comes in, etc. But, with proper EQing, sidechaining isn't completely necessary. It's just really helpful.
