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Hi,

I've been playing around with my mixes for a while but I never get "ducking" involved with them.

I'm not a pro-user about compression as well.

I insert a compressor in my track, and shape the sound to my liking. That's ok. But then, I need an external source to "duck" it. I can also do this. I use FabFilter Pro-C. There is an "external" option in sidechaining pane and I adjust the send options as, 1/2 -> 3/4.

Up to there it's all ok.

My question is,
When I play around with settings to adjust the overall "ducking", I also realize that eventually my "ducked" track's sound shape changes.

Should I use 2 compressors on the "ducked" track? 1 for sound shaping, 1 for sidechaining, serving to external source?
But then, they behave additive. Isn't it so?

How do you take care of this?

Thank you all,