When you solo a sidechain
target, causing the sidechain
source to be muted, this defeats the sidechain effect. The workaround, as suggested by lawp above, is to set the sidechain send to pre-fader. This will assure that the sidechain signal will continue regardless of any solo/mute selections. An added advantage is that often a pre-fader send works better as a sidechain source because it doesn't go up and down in volume with volume automation.