I have a high quality analog mono compressor that I was thinking of trying for a two buss compression........
It does have a side chain input, so in theory I could:
1. Sum the stereo signal pre-compression, creat a seperate file, and input that to the side chain
2. Process the left channel
3. Process the right channel
4. Re-assemble the the left and right channels in the DAW
Monitoring the result is a small issue and it is labor intensive, but this is for a fairly gentle "mix glue" kind of thing so I know about how much GR I want to do.
Has anyone experimented with this?
As a thought experiment I cannot come up with a reason it would not work exactly as a stereo compressor, in fact the GR matching of the two channels might even be better?