Segwist

One of the most talked about music production techniques of the last two years has been a staple of the studio environment for decades, but has reared its mighty head with the explosion of styles such as the techier end of progressive house. Producers such as Eric Prydz/Pryda/Cirez D have cornered a trademark sound out of it and even a Segue live set will feature synths run through ducking on the fly to keep things nasty.

This does of course mean the forums of every DAW and synth manufacturer will be full of “how do i” threads. Some of them are useful, some of them arent. In fact, its not even worth my going into it as there are so many online such as this good one, this thread about it, and even this page. You can faux duck with an Auto-Pan, you can use plugins like Kjaehus’s excellent compressor or you can just get entirely silly. Heres my favourite example of sidechain “ducking” to date, care of the Ableton forums:

Quak Quak :P

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