Anyone have experience with an EQ on a side-chain to limit or control just specific frequencies?

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Anyone have experience with an EQ on a side-chain to limit or control just specific frequencies?

There are little clicks and clucks on some bass tracks and if I could compress or limit those frequencies without squashing everything, that would be excellent. Most insights I see online are about making techno, hip-hop, and other types of modern sounds. What I'm doing is damage control on stuff that's more old fashioned.

Also, if anyone knows of the feature in Final Cut Studio that is supposed to sample certain sounds like that (like the ticks on vinyl records) and filter those without destroying the rest. Of course it's not perfect, but I was told that if you set it subtly so not to get all of it and re-sample what was left, it could be useful and not especially destructive.

Logic Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jun 5, 2013 1:46 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 5, 2013 8:52 PM in response to maclif

can you post the sound somehow?

describing with words isn't the most informative.

how many of these clicks and clucks are there?

how long is the piece?

is the bass track merged with the whole sound or do you have the multitrack?

a side chain with an eq built in may help you attenuate, but only at a single frequency. without hearing the sound, the advice you get may only partially help.

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gen_

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Jun 12, 2013 8:06 AM in response to maclif

If you are trying to remove clicks like scratches and dust on a vinvl record, you will need to use a declicker/denoiser. This is partly becasue a compressor simply won't 'bite' quick enough to stop a pop from getting through, and partly becasue, even if it did, it would be reducing everything in proportion and the pop would still be the loudest sound...meaning you'd lose the rest of the track material before you lost the pop.

If on the other hand you are adamaant about compressing the clicks down, you don't want sidechain compression, your want multiband compression. Use the Multipressor and read the tutorials.

Finally, if you are trying to MAKE a sidechain with only a few frequencies in it, then send the sound to a buss, solo the buss and apply the filtering/eq to that buss. Then use it as your sidechain input with the compressor.

Best of Luck

Gen

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