Sidechain compression is essential for clean low-end, but traditional ducking often introduces unwanted pumping, collapses stereo width, or creates destructive phase cancellation between your kick and bass.
In this overview, Nate walks through the latest update of Sonic Academy’s Sidekick plugin, outlining his favourite features and demonstrating how to fix obscure low-end conflicts and achieve clean, transparent sidechaining using advanced multi-band, Mid/Side, spectral, and automatic phase alignment features.
Hey, I love the plugin but there’s an issue with it, in the lookahead feature would be nice if you could adjust the amount because right now when I render the sub and Kick and I can see that the tail of the sub still bleeds a bit to the kick, this doesn’t happen on shaperbox when I do it properly, so it seems like the lookahead is not really working properly or is just too short, having adjustable lookahead would probably fix that. Otherwise if I have bleed from the sub to the kick this plugin is a bit useless
Welcome aboard on the forums and thanks for your comment & feedback
Suggest to get in touch with support to report this, and let them know in which mode you’re using SideKick, or even better recording a short video with audio showing the issue + letting them know your system details ( Operating System Name + Version / DAW Name + Version / Plugin format you’re using VST3, AU or AAX ? )
The more details you can provide support with, the easier it will be for them to try to replicate the issue.
