deliberate pumping

[Gert van Santen]

Michael Zacherl schreef:
> On Feb 26, 2008, at 12:41 AM, Gert van Santen wrote:
> 
>> I think the compressor pumping is rather
>> "hip", a bit like certain Daft Punk and
>> Madonna songs. OK, it;'s a bit too much,
>> probably...
> 
> can you name some tunes? Daft Punk for instance?
> altough an utterly genre I'm often running into "artistic  
> indecisivness" when it comes to such things.
> I'm not talking about mastering, but mixing style.

I can't mention any track or album 
names, but most of the Daft Punk stuff 
features this pumping. When I heard it 
for the first time, at leas some 7 years 
ago, I thought it sounded terrible, but 
I got used to it, and a lot ofother 
bands/producers started using it.
As far as I understand it's done by 
using side-chain compression on (mostly) 
the bass, where the sound of the kick is 
used as input for the compressor.
Ableton live has a very nice side-chain 
compressor, btw. There's also some 
Youtube tutorials on it. Very 
interesting :-)


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