
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.
