So I use the sidechain compressor for all of my instrument compression in Ableton Live (If this isn't the way I should do it please tell me), and I was wondering... Say you compress a closed hi-hat against a ride cymbal. The ride occupies the 800Hz - 20kHz frequency zone, and the closed hi-hat occupies 5kHz - 20kHz, but does frequency have anything to do with how the compressor acts? In other words, does it compress by shear volume of the instrument you're compressing, or is it possible to say, compress the closed hi-hat against the ride but leave 10kHz and down, out of the compression?
Before you ask, I do have a genuine use for this, if it is possible. I just haven't thought of a way yet, besides doing for example a highpass on the part that I want compressed, and duplicating the track with a lowpass on the second track for the part of the sound I don't want compressed. Unfortunately, it would probably take up too much CPU if I duplicated an entire instrument just for that.
Submitted May 24, 2017 at 01:23AM by MadAveMusic https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/6czxf4/sidechain_compression_frequency_question/?utm_source=ifttt