To create some interesting sound aesthetics (like when sidechaining hihats with heavy reverb to the kick).
That 'pumping' effect you know from like every single EDM track out there There are three basic reasons why to use sidechain: The most obvious example is what I've already suggested in those parentheses - as the kick drum and the bassline share a lot of frequency content, it's extremely common to apply a sidechain on the bass that makes it go almost silent for that short amount of time when the kick drum hits, giving that kick some space to cut through the mix. In other words, you are making one audio track somehow react to another audio track. Simply put, sidechaining is a production technique where you use some parameter of a sound (eg kick drum's volume) to automate a different parameter of a different sound in real-time (eg bassline's volume.that's not exactly a different parameter, but you get the picture). They've heard it Sid echaining: The basicsīefore we get our hands dirty and try out all the different sidechain techniques, let's get some things straight first and make sure you understand what a sidechain actually is - if you don't know that already (in that case, you can skip to the second part of this blog post). For a lot of beginner producers, the sidechain is something like a magic word from Harry Potter.
