Depending on the loop, this can bring a really big change-up to the loop. You may also notice this effect a bit hard to hear with my example in the video. If you don’t know how to set up a sidechain compressor inside FL Studio, you should check out the first post. When your percussion is taking away from your drums, you’re not allowing them to be as prominent as they can be! - Also, your percussion loops can sound a bit flat, boring, and repetitive cause they are all close to the same volume, and no bounce! Since hip-hop drum loops are quite a bit slower than dance music, the drums are very important to hit hard, and be the foundation of your track.

In part 2 of this side-chain compression tutorial series we cover: Using kicks and sidechain compression against percussion loops brings in cool results! There’s no difference between using this technique with hip-hop to dance music.