Ducking
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In music, the ducking effect is applied in more sophisticated ways where a signal's volume is delicately lowered by another signal's presence. Ducking here works through the use of a "
A typical application is to achieve an impression similar to the "pumping" effect. The difference between ducking and side-chain pumping is that in ducking the attenuation is by a specific range while side-chain compression creates variable attenuation.[1]: 94 Ducking may be used in place of mirrored equalization to combat masking, for example with the bass guitar ducked under the kick drum, resembling subtle side-chain pumping.[1]: 96 A ducking system may be created where one track ducks another, which ducks another, and so on. Examples include Portishead's "Biscuit".[1]: 97
Used most often to turn down the music when the DJ speaks,
Sources
- ^ ISBN 978-1-4411-5607-5.
- ^ Izhaki, Roey (2008). Mixing Audio, p.374. Focal Press. Cited in Hodgson (2010), p.95.