Sidechaining a certain frequency possible?

[timothyallan]

Hrmm, I was thinking he wanted to SC a certain chunk of the spectrum, and maintain the rest of the sound. Like a multiband sidechain where everything else is intact. Orrrrr I could be totally over complicating and should just get back to work.

[cacti]

Hrmm, I was thinking he wanted to SC a certain chunk of the spectrum, and maintain the rest of the sound. Like a multiband sidechain where everything else is intact. Orrrrr I could be totally over complicating and should just get back to work.

yea pretty much, but i can work around this.

[Tone Deft]

so make a rack...
slot 1 - bandpass filter for the frequency range in question, then compress it
slot 2 - put a bandstop filter a the same frequency range


cacti - is there noise you're trying to eliminate or?

[bagginz]

Umm, didn't he mean he wanted to sidechain (duck) a certain frequency?

Yeah, that's how I read it. Also a very good question I thought...

In which case using the filter provided on the compressor's sidechain wouldn't work.

Unfortunately the mulitiband had no sidehain input.

As someone else mentioned, a simple sweepable crossover plug would be a useful tool in the Live's toolkit.

Would save the hassle, extra cpu and potential phase problems of fudging a solution to this by using 2 x eq 8s as well as having many other creative uses.

cheers,
bagginz

[3dot...]

then just enable the eq on the comp...

[timothyallan]

That's not going to do what the OP is asking about.

[3dot...]

so use the multiband comp... compress only the middle freq...
close on the freq you want to compreses by adjusting the x-over freqs of the high and low
adjust 'attack','release','ratio'...
done.

[timothyallan]

... but then it's not sidechained and you have a statically set frequency

[3dot...]

I don't understand the purpose of this ...seriously.

[timothyallan]

lol he wants a multiband compressor which will take a external key. I think Sonalksis make one, but Live ain't got one

[assessingaccess]

lol he wants a multiband compressor which will take a external key. I think Sonalksis make one, but Live ain't got one

I've read on this forum that one might want to duck certain mid-range frequencies when vocals are present. would this be the way to do it? and is this what you guys are talking about?

[ethios4]

Ableton could do with a crossover, that would sort the problem, in a rack.

Made one a while back....
http://forum.ableton.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=48922