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Super Tight Bass Sidechain with Soothe2:

There are loads of plugins that you can use to sidechain your music with. But this one is the ultimate plugin question. It’s called Soothe2, and here’s how I use it:

1. Select the bass and kick tracks for side chaining.

2. Adjust the sidechain settings to cut frequencies around 500 Hz.

3. Set the sidechain to have a fast attack to catch the transient of the kick.

4. Then select a fast release, but experiment with these settings to synchronise everything with the kick.

This will ultimately leave your low end sounding much tighter as Soothe2 removes the specific frequencies in your kick rather than removing all of the lower frequencies.