So, yeah, it's a noobish question, but in doing some research lately I've been wondering about this...It's taking a slightly compressed signal and blending it with the same signal only really compressed right? Do you dupe tracks to do this?
What's parallel compression?
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This is commonly used on drums.
Setup an aux track and route your drums to it. Smash the shit out of them with your favorite compressors.
Than bring up the aux track's fader a touch. Don't overpower anything though.
Setup an aux track and route your drums to it. Smash the shit out of them with your favorite compressors.
Than bring up the aux track's fader a touch. Don't overpower anything though.
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yeh, also called "upward compression".
works good for example when a drummer is a weak hitter, compress the shit out of the toms and add to original tombus...
works wonders...
I like sometimes using it with vocals and other stuff too..
good example in jazz or something when i dont wanna reduce dynamics too much but compress a certain area in the vox (like 3k for smoothing it out)...
looks like this:
--orig---------------------------------------->---------Mixed signals---->
I
I----------Bandpass 3k---Comp---->---I
split..............................................feed back
also pretty commonly used in mastering
works good for example when a drummer is a weak hitter, compress the shit out of the toms and add to original tombus...
works wonders...
I like sometimes using it with vocals and other stuff too..
good example in jazz or something when i dont wanna reduce dynamics too much but compress a certain area in the vox (like 3k for smoothing it out)...
looks like this:
--orig---------------------------------------->---------Mixed signals---->
I
I----------Bandpass 3k---Comp---->---I
split..............................................feed back
also pretty commonly used in mastering
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I don't know what gear you're using, but here's some examples:
Route the entire mix to a group. insert a compressor with 0 attack and 0 release (as close as possible) at a 1000:1 ratio with the threshold somewhere at -60db. You squash the bastard group completely. Turn the group down and turn the master up to a nice metal friendly level. Now, slowly turn the volume up on the "nuke-squash-crushed" group, and you'll notice that everything sounds more metal, but you still have the transients (attack, punch) of everything intact. Blend according to taste.
Route all drums to a group (post fader), and do the same as above. The drummer hits 100% harder suddenly, and you can clearly hear him fart in when he's grinding
Route the drums to a group, insert a distortion fx (stereo), and notice how the drums sounds clearer, more expensive, and the drummer bastard STILL farts when he grinds!
It works great live too, but the settings need to be more careful
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I don't know what gear you're using, but here's some examples:
Route the entire mix to a group. insert a compressor with 0 attack and 0 release (as close as possible) at a 1000:1 ratio with the threshold somewhere at -60db. You squash the bastard group completely. Turn the group down and turn the master up to a nice metal friendly level. Now, slowly turn the volume up on the "nuke-squash-crushed" group, and you'll notice that everything sounds more metal, but you still have the transients (attack, punch) of everything intact. Blend according to taste.
Route all drums to a group (post fader), and do the same as above. The drummer hits 100% harder suddenly, and you can clearly hear him fart in when he's grinding
Route the drums to a group, insert a distortion fx (stereo), and notice how the drums sounds clearer, more expensive, and the drummer bastard STILL farts when he grinds!
It works great live too, but the settings need to be more careful
Never tried to distort them, just squashed pretty hard+to add some more balls and clarity i often insert an exaggerated "smile"-eq. And I use attack as fast as possible and a very long release, like 900ms.
Here is what I did:
I set up a send in each of my drum tracks to a drum subgroup and applied the compression to the whole drum submix...Is this right? I applied the sends post fader as well, and set the level of the send to 0dB on all the tracks. Was this correct?
Anyway, I compressed the hell out of this subgroup, so I got a pumping drum mix - is this right?
From there, I slowly raised the fader until I could hear the punch of the comp'd group track thickening up the drums...Dropping it out took me back to my original drum sound but too much of the subgroup and it swallowed the original drum mix...Finding the sweet spot was pretty cool, though.
I didn't route the OH's to this group, do you guys?
Anyway, is what I did basically the idea with this? I dug what I heard, that's for sure, but I want to make sure I did it right. Because, if I know I like this and I did it wrong, I'm thinking doing it correctly would be killer.
I set up a send in each of my drum tracks to a drum subgroup and applied the compression to the whole drum submix...Is this right? I applied the sends post fader as well, and set the level of the send to 0dB on all the tracks. Was this correct?
Anyway, I compressed the hell out of this subgroup, so I got a pumping drum mix - is this right?
From there, I slowly raised the fader until I could hear the punch of the comp'd group track thickening up the drums...Dropping it out took me back to my original drum sound but too much of the subgroup and it swallowed the original drum mix...Finding the sweet spot was pretty cool, though.
I didn't route the OH's to this group, do you guys?
Anyway, is what I did basically the idea with this? I dug what I heard, that's for sure, but I want to make sure I did it right. Because, if I know I like this and I did it wrong, I'm thinking doing it correctly would be killer.
slinky_
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Hey, there are no rules! Anyhoo you did it just fine! I never use parallel compressing on the OH´s, maybe you could use a very little on them too, but i´ve never tried.
