How to sidechain fruity limiter

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You now have, for all intents and purposes, a click distilled from your original drum that always plays with your drum sound. The reason you need a second plugin for this because you can’t make up the gain reduction from the first one before the gate section- the gain is post-dynamics. Besides, using the gain in Fruity Limiter is like doing the right thing. Turn the release all the way down, don’t worry – you’re not actually hearing the signal, then pull the threshold up so it gets rid of any tail that the drum might have had. Learn a technique of Sidechain to remove muddiness and add room for a kick with. That signal then goes into the 2nd Fruity Limiter, where you use the gate section. You will end up with a very peaky signal that visibly resembles a mirrored exponential graph. Use the Gain knob to drive the signal up to 0dB. Then, go into the compressor tab of the first one, set attack to be roughly 40 ms, release to be roughly 50 ms, ratio to be 10:1 or higher and pull down the threshold until it clamps down a respectable 30dB of gain reduction.

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You will not need the limiter function for this. In the ‘limit’ tab of both Limiters, take down the attack and release to 0. Make sure the first mixer track does not go to the master.