Hello everyone. Thanks so much for all the valuable information in this thread. I’ve been doing a lot of research on compressors & elektron boxes and wanted to share my findings for all future fmr rnc sidechain researchers.
I had a couple of requirements for the setup:
- have the ability to create a pumping sidechain effect for my synthesizer basslines and pads
- support my setup with analog four, rytm and octatrack
- have the solution be portable enough to fit in a (big) shoulderbag
in the end I settled on getting the FMR RNC 1773 and setting it up in the following way:
first of all, be sure to check out the comprehensive video on this topic by slenterendebeer, they did an amazing job explaining a lot of the compressors details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Hr5LKARioQ
In my setup, I’m using the separate kick output from the rytm as a clean sidechain control signal, which makes the bassline and synth pads from the analogfour get ducked when the kick hits. This creates that signature bouncy dance music feel. Because the signal that gets ducked does not contain the kick/drums yet, I don’t run into any problems that require the (excellently executed and documented) FMOD highpass filters or eq solutions as described by fulano47 ( https://www.gearslutz.com/board/showpost.php?p=12597812&postcount=31), brucewayne (FMR RNC or RNLA on master) and the slenterendebeer video.
You can view and listen to this live setup in action at the following (exaggeratedly pumping) video snippet:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BviEi2hInCP/
To complete the setup I am now investigating whether or not I want another compressor on the end of the master chain, but currently I’m ok with either the compression of the octatrack master bus or the analog rytm’s compressor at the end of the chain, if im not using the octatrack =)