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Re:In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" –... by wartywhoa23 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @05:58AM (#48205373)
I agree, there are countless both purely engineering and creative use cases for sidechaining!

My absolutely adored kind of sidechaining is spectral, that is, when it's not merely a loudness envelope of a source that drives the gain of a target, but when both are split into FFT bins and the envelope of each bin of the source drives the gain of the corresponding bin in the target.

That allows for carving out the target signal with the frequency response of the source, surgically. Works miracles is modern bass-heavy styles, along with spectral limiting.

There is one particularly amazing VST plugin at this, but I won't advertise here.

Re:In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" –... by xanderlewis on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:44AM (#48206176)
You won't advertise? Please do.
Re:In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" –... by wartywhoa23 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @08:12AM (#48206428)
Alright, Melda MSpectralDynamics)

But before anyone blames me for advertising a commercial product, I'll balance this out with an open source alternative: Nih-Plug Spectral Compressor.

Re:In 1979 engineer Hugh Padgham discovered "gated reverb" –... by krighxz on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @07:57AM (#48206305)
Probably referring to the Trackspacer VST plugin