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If you’ve set this up correctly, then during playback the Sidechain meter should show
the levels of the dialog tracks with Send enabled, and the Gain Reduction meter should
show you how much the gain of the music track is being reduced when triggered by the
dialog being fed to the Sidechain.
As a result, you should hear that whenever speech plays, the music volume is
automatically lowered. Adjust Threshold and Ratio to set the amount of this gain
reduction, and adjust Attack, Hold, and Release to set how quickly gain reduction
responds to changes in the Sidechain level (as defined by the Send levels).
Limiter
The third set of dynamics parameters let you apply limiting, which imposes a hard limit on the
maximum level allowed for a particular signal.
 Limiter: A button that lets you enable Limiting.
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Threshold: Sets the maximum allowable output level. The default is –21dB.
The˛range is from –50 to 0dB.
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Attack: Adjusts the attack rate time constant of the sidechain detector. The default is
0.71mS. The range is 0 to 100mS.
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Hold: Keeps dynamics from being triggered again until a certain amount of time has
passed, in mS (milliseconds). Defaults to 0mS. The range is from 0 to 4000mS.
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Release: Adjusts how quickly the sidechain detector stops applying dynamics when
a signal goes back below the threshold. The default is 90mS. The range is 0.03 to
4.03mS.
Aux
Lets you route that track’s channels through an Aux send bus. Each Aux bar corresponds to a
specific Aux bus that you created. Double-clicking any of these bars opens up the Auxiliaries
window, with which you can enable or disable auxiliaries, set each one to be routed pre the
channel strip or post the channel strip (the default), and set the send level and pan value for
each Aux bus. The controls for multiple Aux buses appear stacked within a single window.
The Auxiliaries control window for a mix with two Aux Buses
Each Aux bus you create exposes the following controls in the Auxiliaries window:
 On: Turns that Aux send on or off.
 Pre: Switches that Aux send to be processed either pre or post fader. Turning this
button on enables that track to send levels to the Aux bus before level adjustments on
that track are applied. One common use of this is to enable a plug-in applied by the
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