Compressing a quad-channel signal

"Jeanette C." <[email protected]> Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:25:47 +0200 (CEST)
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Hey hey,
I have to compress a 4-channel signal. This is in the mastering stage. Because 
I do it all in Csound, I have to take care of the niceties myself.

The Csound compressor has an explicit sidechain input. Should I use a scaled 
down mix of all channels as the sidechain inputs to the separate channels or 
just sidechain each channel by itself?

I appreciate any tip you can give me.

Best wishes,

Jeanette

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