Monoing a bus after sidechain compression

ScorpioProd wrote on 9/16/2008, 12:51 PM

Is there any way to mono an audio bus?

I need to do sidechain compression on a soundtrack based on a commentary track. And since my old favorite VST sidechain compressor, SideKickV3, stopped working with Vegas as of Vegas 7.0c, I needed to do it another way.

Convieniently, Vegas comes with a sidechain compressor, though it is hidden a bit. That's the WaveHammer plug-in which lets you do routing, using one channel to control another, which is sidechain compression.

So I mono my sound track and pan it left and send it to the A bus, and I mono my commentary track and pan it right and send it to the A bus. Then I use the WaveHammer to compress the left channel based on the right channel.

This works.

And though I can render out and bring the track back in and do a mono mix that way, is there any way to make the A bus mono going to the Master, so that I don't have to go through an extra render step?

Thanks.

Comments

baysidebas wrote on 9/16/2008, 1:37 PM

an easy way to get a mono mix out of a stereo track is to split the track into individual tracks. I use an Excalibur script for that function, but there have been manual methods discussed in this forum in the past. A little searching will reveal the answer. Nice thing is, once you split the track, you need not do anything else, you're there.

farss wrote on 9/16/2008, 1:53 PM

There is a free plugin that does what you want. I recall it coming up in a discussion about doing exactly what you're doing. Only problem is I can't find it. If Pipe was still around in the audio forum he'd know for sure where to download it.

Bob.

owlsroost wrote on 9/16/2008, 2:18 PM

Try the 'Steroid Bouncer' plug-in [url=http://www.cloneensemble.com/sb_main.htm]

Tony

ScorpioProd wrote on 9/16/2008, 8:25 PM

Thanks, the Steroid Bouncer looks like it can do what I need. I'll just put it in the effect chain after the Wavehammer and center the pan of both channels there.

I do use a script created by Gilles when I need to split a stereo track into a pair of mono tracks, but what I was doing here involved buses, not tracks.