Drum Bus Parallel Compressor Shoot-out

[mstone564]

Parallel compression has always been one of those things I ALWAYS do, just out of habit. I think I might start re-thinking it and using it in a more subtle manner (or not at all even!) thanks to this thread! =D

 

[szymon]

I was thinking of C/D (without reading the thread), but D (ovestayer) seemed a bit choked.
Turned out that i like the thing without pcompression

Do you use parallel compression often? It quite sounds like you mixed drums without compressor, and then put an additional compressing bus... so every other piece instead of C sound a bit squashed...

 

[Ermz]

For the modern metal sound, in particularly faster music, you'll generally find that you lose clarity and tightness with parallel compression. There's a conscious choice you have to make at some point about whether the extra density from para comp will help the sound of the mix or not.

The last mix I did omitted parallel drum comp entirely because of this.

This one though... the Overstayer is staying on!

 

[Soundlurker]

I might be biased because I read everything before I listened, but I really think in this mix the parallel compressor should stay. The one without it sounds raw thin and sterile in comparison.

 

[Ermz]

I agree, hence why it's staying!

 

[Jaymz]

For faster stuff I prefer to gate the parallel signal

 

[Eduardo Apolonia]

Ermin

I have some nice hardware compressors that I could use to process the track and post it here.