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Jon Musgrave Jon is a London-based platinum awardwinning mixer, producer, composer and club remixer with a diverse CV that spans dance, pop, rock and music for media. He’s also a long-term contributor to Computer Music. Jon usually handles final mixdowns, which is why we’ve got him to share some of his pearls of mixing wisdom here
Most commonly associated with the kickdriven, audible pumping effect that’s become popular in club music, sidechain compression can be a very useful tool that adds energy and space to individual sounds, submixes and mixes while keeping things punchy. It can be used in many different ways and so we’ll be splitting the topic across more than one tutorial.