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Rhythmic Compression and Gating

November 19, 2013 By John Moeller

This tutorial by Blue Rooms shows how to make a pad pulse to the beat using a compressor with a bass drum as its sidechain input. This technique is pervasive in dance music and can be disorienting, hypnotic, or nauseating depending on how you use it. At the end of the video he shows how […]

Filed Under: How-To Tagged With: dance, psychoacoustics, rhythm, sidechains

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