Sidechaining began in early radio for de-essing and music ducking

suno · x · 2026-10-16

Suno's history thread: early radio engineers fed a filtered copy of an announcer's mic into a compressor to tame harsh S sounds (de-essing) and automatically duck background music when the host spoke—a trick radio still uses today.

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