side chain for gates

[izzyParticipant]

i’d like to use the signal generator to create a low sine, patch it to a channel and control its gate by the bass drum signal via side chain. this would be an easy way to add some extra punch to the bass drum sound.

[Anonymous]

wow!?
That’s a very old fashioned way of adding punch to a kick drum.
From memory they used to use an external generator to do that?
You could easily take out some drivers with that method 🙂

[izzyParticipant]

This is a feature we actually use in larger venues with an iLive desk, which has side-chain support for the gates. Since the Qu-Pac ducker is already capable of side-chaining it should be easily possible to implement this for gates/compressors as well.

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