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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.

timothyallan wrote: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.

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?

timothyallan wrote: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

then just enable the eq on the comp...

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

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.

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

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

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

timothyallan wrote: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?

tw1nstates wrote: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