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Sidechaining the whole mix or other elements is more of a dance music thing. Listen to Daft Punk's around the world.
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I get that it's distinctive and has its own particular sound but when I'm checking out new music as soon as I hear that effect I'll reach for the next track button.
too much low information in the sides.. Jesus.
It can happen, but you've got to have a pretty weird mix for there to be too much bass in the sides and not enough up the middle lol.
I've read about mid side, but I really don't see the point in worrying about it when mixing.
If you can mix properly, mid/side processing isn't really that important IMO.
plus tracks usually have to be recorded using the M/S technique to fully exploit it.
You can use plugins to make the bass mono below a certain frequency. But sometimes I fail to see what the difference is between having it come out of two speakers rather two speakers.
You usually pan bass mono up the middle. That will still come from both speakers in a stereo pair.
My guess is that someone is using words that they don't really fully understand.
Plus, low end is omni-directional. It's difficult to discern its origin.
A simple hi-pass filter on some of your panned elements should probably suffice.
Don't get bogged down with shit that simply isn't important just because some pretentious twonk enjoys the technically accurate way to the musical way.
PLENTY of utter rubbish which is borne mostly of pretentiousness gets spouted so often on forums. Including here.
OMG I can't believe you didn't do mid side, or hi passed your kick drum, or tamed the sustain of your toms with a gate or parallel compressed your kit, or sidechained everything to everything else, or automated that vocal or whatever else some people spout is a necessity for a good mix. Lol.
WALOB.
It's entirely possible to make KILLER mixes with bog standard EQ and compression moves and a little bit of fader riding.
A mix is about good balance. Fancy processing and routing does sweet F all to an imbalanced mix. It won't miraculously fix it.
Mixing is about the small percentile increases. Like cooking. Taking something ordinary and creating the illusion that it's extraordinary.
It's about how everything fits together and how it's balanced.
It's not about mid side processing. So don't worry.
Although I'll be honest and say that I use techniques and routing far more advanced than the above. But only when it can't be solved with a simple balance adjustment in either the time or frequency domain or if I'm looking to do something fancy on purpose.
Unfortunately for most, the best tool to have when mixing, is experience and simply knowing what you are actually listening for and knowing how to balance correctly.
that's the crux of it. It's also the hardest bit to get right/learn.
several FX in the Axe-FX can be side-chained..
one thing I found works quite well is to apply it to the delay.. so when you're having a bit of a shred, the delay ducks and keeps you tidy.. then as you play less the delay's wet level is allowed to get a little stronger..
the tricky part is getting the delay's ducked level right and the speed that it comes back in.. cos if you set it too strongly is can sound quite unnatural.. I know of some folk that like to do this.. for me personally though it didn't really hit the spot..
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