

“Julius has held drumsticks from the age of 1.” “He gravitated towards the drums when he was young with a DVD player watching Buddy Rich,” he said of his son. Julius is also an accomplished student musician, playing the marimba, timpani, snare drum, multi-percussion, and drum set… he also plays a little piano. His mother, Heather Radino, plays the piano and both his mother and father are Bellport High School graduates. In second grade, Julius performed in front of his entire school with principal Sean Clark from Kreamer Street Elementary, playing “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne. After seeing an Alice Cooper concert, he set up his drums outside by the buses and played to “School’s Out For Summer” when the students were dismissed on their last day of school. Next to the sidechain button, you can select the headphone & EQ button.On the Rock Legends Cruise, he performed with guitar players Gary Hoey and Brandon “Taz” Niederauer at the Legends Jam.Īt age 10, Julius played marimba and received his first album credit with the band Blue Coupe, which featured Alice Cooper and former members of Blue Öyster Cult. This will allow you to sculpt your sidechain input before it goes into the compression phase of the process. The headphone button allows you to listen to the EQ’d/filtered signal that is going into the compressor. You can choose from a number of filters, but the most likely one you’ll use when sidechaining the Bass to the Kick, is the low pass filter, or the low shelf.

Using this you can remove some of the Bass from your sidechain input signal, which can be useful when you don’t want the sidechain compression to overload, and last too long. Specifically Bass can be a tricky frequency, and due to its loudness, it can cause the compression to squash your signal longer than it needs to be. If you filter out your lower-end bass, up to 100-200Hz, this leaves the body of the Kick and gives a more clean, precise sidechain compression. Sometimes you may want this longer, heavy effect that’s not as precise. Especially in EDM when you want the sidechain to be heavy, it’s useful to leave much of the low end in, so you can get that long pump effect you want. Some tutorials online say that the EQ can affect where the frequency range of your sidechain is ducked, however, this isn’t true. The compression will duck the entire signal no matter what. Filtering just gives you a slightly altered input that may change the speed and precision of your sidechain compression.

If you want to duck a certain frequency range, you can add multiband sidechain compression, which we’ll explain further down (really useful for sub heavy sidechain Bass compression). Next, you’ll want to start changing the threshold, attack & release settings on your compressor.įirst, change the threshold of your compressor. The threshold will set the db level at which your compressor will begin to react.

Without a threshold level, you won’t hear any compression, so you need to set this first.ĭepending on your signal, you might have different settings here.
