Tutorial: New York Compression without a Side Chain Option

[mick thompson]

Hopefully it will be useful to someone

New York Compression (ie: Parallel compression) without a digital side chain option in your plugin (example logic's multipressor)

1: Bus the Drum Kit to a stereo compressor

2: Compress Pretty Hard (8-12dB) pending on the track

3: Return the output of the compressor to a pair of fader inputs on the console

4: Add a decent amount of high end (6-10dB at around 10kHz) & decent amount of low end (6-10dB at around 100Hz)

5: Increase the slider levels until its just below the current rhythm section. The rhythm should now sound larger & more controlled while not being overly compressed

If you find the bass and the kick drum are no longer locking together you can take a separate bus of the kick & bass and squash them to bits, add a little more low end (say 2-4dB at around 100Hz) and slowly bring it into the mix just under the current rhythm section. Doing this makes more room for your guitars and vocals at whatever else you have in your mix

 

[Forceps]

thanks dude, gonna try this in my current project

 

[ahjteam]

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=247659
http://www.terrywest.110mb.com/easyny.html

 

[mick thompson]

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=247659
http://www.terrywest.110mb.com/easyny.html

thats cheating! you have to learn how to do it yourself first! and they are vst's , im a AU man

 

[ahjteam]

...but you are not doing the NY compression... NY compression is really simple: It's just a send to a bus that has compressor.

If you are doing it in a hardware mixer, just send the drums to BUS 1-2 and main out, then put a compressor on the inserts of BUS 1-2 and mix in with taste.

 

[mick thompson]

that is a NY comp Above! and your forgetting to EQ accordingly (well thats what i learned) add some low end thump and high end definition to your comp on the bus or after the bus