Compressor side-chain how to?

[porkipine]

Looking for the best way to use a voice track to drop the level of the music track when the person speaks. Is this the right configuration? Using PT ver 7.3.1 cs5, mbox


VOICE TRACK:
Set up aux send to buss 1 mono
track output set to stereo out


MUSIC TRACK:
set input to buss 1
track insert= compressor 3
select buss 1 on "key input" of compressor plug-in
track output set to stereo out

[Shawn Simpson]

almost. You don't need to set the input of the music track to the bus, only the key input assignment in the plug-in itself. Then just hit the "key" button to tell the compressor to react to the signal coming into the key input. (edited after re-reading your post)

I actually wrote a blog article about this over at the ProMedia Training blog a while back, but I'm too lazy to dig it up right now.

Have fun!

[porkipine]

thx shawn.
btw, got a "down for maint" message on the blog.