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Yep thanks, that works like a charm. it would be really cool if the gate had a built in eq like that as well too hey.

Ok I could have explained myself better.

What I want is:
Track 2 playing. I want to sidechain a gate for track one so that when the mid frequencies of track two go above the threshold of the gate, it opens.

So I want the gate to ignore the low and high frequencies of track 2, and only use the mid ...

Is it possible to have an EQ that isn't effecting the sound but however is used by a sidechain to make the sidechain's activation more selective?

Example: You have channel playing a track, and have an EQ on that channel that isn't effecting the sound. The EQ is used to make the activation of a ...

I had an idea of something do with with a rack but I can't figure out how to do it myself.
Can you link an eq to a sidechained gate?
for example you only want the gate to open if the sidechained channels mids reach a certain level?