so basically my understanding of it so far, is to send a group mix..such as all of ur drums to two sends...one with a dry signal..and the other without..and its suppose to fatten up ur track cus u get a nice decay and release from the compression..but im still pretty confused about it..anyone care to explain it in detail?

i have only done it in Reason (which is super easy thanks to matrix), and with good results, but usually i send one of the splits through a scream distortion to add presence and the other one through an eq to remove a little mid. it works really great. Not sure if you use Reason but if you do I could send you an example project.

parallel compression means you compress each element with its own compression settings.

serial compression means you compress all elements together.

You can apply parallel and serial to anything really.



ie.

drum 1 - drum 1 compression
..............................>>>> Drum 1 and Drum 2 compression
drum 2 - drum 2 compression

hmm interesting but i use fl studio. i bet the same ideas can be applied there though. maybe take a screeny.


and hmm thanks for that tip J.L.

so its sorta like multi band?

Ie. if you have something on FX channel 1 and something on FX channel 2 and you put a compressor on each of the channels that is parallel compression

If you have something on FX channel 1 and something on FX channel 2 and you route them to FX channel 3 and put a compression on FX channel 3 that's serial compression


I tend to put everything on parallel, unless your computer can't handle it. It gives you more flexibility

However, sometimes you can use serial compression for specific purposes of combining 2 things together and then compressing them.

multi band splits up one sound into different frequencies and then compresses it parallel. I find multiband is useful for drums, but I just prefer maximus since it is just much more useful =P

thanks i somewhat get it now.

isnt paralell compression when you have 2 signals : i compressed and one not compressed? Like having 2 audio tracks of your drums, one with no compression and one with compression (for example)

you know what... I probably don't know what I'm talking about... but I guess that's what I refer to when I am compressing 2 things in parallel

Parallel compression is when you have 1 signal going into 2 seperate busses. You apply compression to 1 of those two busses and merge the 2 back together in the ratio you think sounds best (50/50, 25/75 whatever). This way you can combine the beef of a compressed signal with the dynamics and transient details of the original sound.

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just put your compressor on your aux send, rather than your insert and control wet/dry with your aux send level, nothing fancy, neither magical, highly overrated since the invention of sidechain

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^^^ Thats how I do it. (when I do it, which isn't very often since I don't think it adds much.)

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Originally posted by J.L. you know what... I probably don't know what I'm talking about... but I guess that's what I refer to when I am compressing 2 things in parallel

Yeah you are... Storyteller explained it.

Multiband is completely different really, its a complicated process, but can give great results. I don't know why you'd use it on a drum buss, but I like it for "mastering".

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