"Ken Kearney" <reptilesphere@yahoo.com> wrote: >Is this the same thing as "side-chaining" w/ a compressor? No, it's nothing like it. Side-chaining means that a different signal is causing the compressor to kick in/out. The "normal" use of a compressor is that the very signal that is being compressed is the same one that is causing the compressor to kick in/out. Sometimes the sidechained signal isn't completely different one (like when the kick drum causes a bass' compressor to kick in/out) but a modified version of the compressed signal like in de-essing, where a treble exaggerated version of the to-be-compressed signal is causing the compressor to kick in/out. You don't hear the sidechain. Rather, you hear the RESULT of the sidechain. f-erenc szabo, smarty pants Z+E+R+O+B+E+A+T "NOW POWERED BY THE MIRACLE OF THE TRANSISTOR!" <http://home.goodmedia.com/~zerobeat>