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Parallel Compression

Today we are going to discuss parallel compression (New York compression). I’m a pretty big fan of this technique. The main reason I’m a drummer and I like to beef up the drums with it.  What is parallel compression? The simplest way to describe it is, mixing a compressed signal with it’s dry source to [...]

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The morning of parallel nothing!

Last night I was flipping through the old Mastering Audio book by Bob Katz and happened across the section about parallel compression. I like to use it to beef up my drums, however in the mastering concept of parallel compression the compressor is virtually in permanent extreme gain reduction due to the high threshold that [...]

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