FL Studio - Sidechain EQ Using Izotope Neutron

hello good morning good evening wherever you are in the world today this is dj verium in the uk with my first fl studio tips and tricks video uh and it's mainly around an issue which i struggled to find an answer to to try and figure it out so once i did figure it out i thought i would upload a video see if it helps anyone else um so if it does then please leave a comment like share follow whatever you want to do that would be nice so that i know that some people have benefited from it and it's around using isotope neutron and using that to side chain and side chain using dynamic eq as opposed to traditional kind of side chain compression um so let me pull up my mixer track there we go uh so this is just a project that i'm kind of working on at the minute and i've just got to the point i've kind of done most of the arrangement and i'm just getting to the point now where i'm starting to eq stuff and starting to mess around with the sounds so it's a good opportunity so i'm going to just turn the volume down a little bit at the top there so it doesn't come through too loud and let's just turn off my uh no i'll leave my base on turn off my fx and my lead bus so we don't get any of that coming through and the hat the snare and the collapse and i've just got the kick in the base uh i do also use this method with vocals i use the vocal to trigger um eq dynamic eq within the leads normally um sometimes on the bus sometimes on the individual leads depends where the mass skins kind of taking place let's just play this for a second to see what it roughly kind of sounds like so that's the basic kind of beat that's the kick and the and the bass go in there so i've got neutral oh well first thing we need to do which is the same as if we were doing side chain compression select the kick in the mixer and then right click on the base here and side chain to that track so in the mixer i'm now side chaining the kick to the base easy peasy and that's what you do if you're using the limiter to side chain compress or side chain limit whatever you're doing um so i've got neutron on both so we'll just pull up neutron on the kick and as you can see it's called and then let's pull up neutron on the base and i'm not called that one anything currently so let's just change that to base there we go so while stuff sidechained in the mixer here neutron doesn't see that side chain neutron is unaware that i've sidechained so it's not receiving the signal so the first thing or the main thing that you have to figure out uh is the next bit and this is the bit that i couldn't get my i couldn't figure out i found lots of ways to do this on cubase and ableton and other softwares but fl studio works slightly differently so we have to go into the wrapper settings um so on the base because it's the base that i want to be affected i want the kick to trigger an effect on the bass uh and it's important just to realize which way around you want that because if you're making house music maybe you might want the bass to be more dominant than the kick and you might want to side chain the other way around but in this case i want the kick to instigate a reduction in the base so on the base i go into the wrapper settings here and then click on that cog there and then i need to go into processing go into processing and this line here don't touch anything else but in this line here number two stereo orgs in turn that on right click and it should say kick there now neutron is now receiving that side chain signal from the kick and that is the main part of this now you might notice i'm in neutron 3 advanced pretty sure this works in neutron 3 standard i'm pretty sure it works in neutron 2 standard and advanced as well i'm not sure about elements as to whether this works in elements in terms of side chaining um but give it a go if that's what you're working with so now that i've got that set up i'm going to just press play but turn the volume down so we can see the uh see the eq going on there so let's just turn that volume down so as you can see kicks there bass is there now neutron has this feature called masking you turn it on them both if you want but you don't need to under on the base i'm going to turn the masking option on and set it to the kick that now shows me the orange line is my kick the grey line is still the base you can switch between the two here if you wanted to but you don't need to at this point uh and if you inverse the link i'm going i'm digressing now if you inverse the link it means if you raise one it will lower the other but anyway so we've got masking turned on uh you can see these bits of orange popping up and that's where most of the masking is occurring that's most of where we've got the same information on both tracks the same frequencies if you turn the sensitivity right up there it'll then kind of give you a more visual idea of where the worst places are and obviously kick and bass the worst problems here around 100 hertz so let's just move that one out of the way because i'll probably want that for a high pass at some point i'm going to add a node here i want it to be a bell uh i'm going to bring it down to there to start with and a lot of this is then just to taste just listen listening with your own ears as to how much you want it to duck um but now let's turn that on we need to turn on dynamic and as you can see instantly it starts working and you might even think oh there we go it's working but it isn't because at the minute it's taking the signal from itself the base is triggering the base because it's taking its own internal signal we need to switch that to external and now it's taking it from the kick it doesn't look any different but you'll see that we're about to get to a part where there's no kick and that should stop if it doesn't then it's still taking the signal internally um so you just need to make sure it's on external and should stop now there we go no kick and the bass comes back up to normal um so that is how you sidechain the dynamic eq in neutron um this selection here band five obviously because that's the fifth band i've put in there it's number five so um it's just saying do you want uh do you wanna use that information from that band um which generally speaking you do you could put it on full spectrum because it doesn't really matter too much at this point um but i would leave it on band five um so that's it i hope that's helped um if it has leave a comment like follow maybe i'll become popular and do more videos um if there is anything you want a video on and it's within my capabilities then um let me know and i'll see what i can do

Channel: DJ Varium

Views: 3,162

Keywords: FL Studio, ImageLine, FL20, Izotope, Neutron, Sidechain, Dynamic EQ, Producing, Mixing, Mastering, djvarium, music production, edm, kick, bass

Id: ENbbi4pdl6Y

Length: 8min 30sec (510 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 12 2020