Sidechaining a reverb to kick AND a snare

[Citizen]

What is the best way to do this?

Send both the K+S to a reverb send channel, and place a two compressors on the reverb, one is sidechained to the kick, the other to the snare...

...OR...

Bus the K+S to a single channel, and place one compressor on the reverb, that is sidechained to the bus.

[re:dream]

Both could work.... what do your ears say?

I have even seen people create a reverb 'bus' for each instrument,and put a reverb and side chain in each. And then modulate the wet and dry signal in each channel.


Play around and see.

[Rationalizer]

Make a dedicated sidechain source track with one sound (kick drum for example) and program the beat with kicks and snares to it. Mute the channel and send that to the reverb track with the compressor on sidechain mode. Works for me.

[Galt]

All of the above.

[Nokatus]

Make a return channel, set its output to "sends only" so anything you send into it doesn't add to the signal, and then use that return channel as the sidechain key signal. Now you can conveniently send as many sources in the mix as you like to trigger the sidechain compression, and you can set their individual strengths just by adjusting the send levels - or even automating them at different points of the tune.

But yeah, no one single way to do it, what ever works for you.