I thought there was another thread on this that was bigger than that one, but I can't seem to find it. This is also known as "New York Compression". Something I think I'm gonna start playing with.
Oct-08-2008 14:18
Freak
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yep works very well. tried and tested.
Can go a stage further and split the group- stick a high pass one one and a low pass on the other (and a mid pass if you like on a third too) and compress each band heavily seperately.
Oct-08-2008 16:02
echosystm
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Originally posted by Freak
Can go a stage further and split the group- stick a high pass one one and a low pass on the other (and a mid pass if you like on a third too) and compress each band heavily seperately.
lol
or you could just use a multiband compressor... i mean, that's what they're made for afterall.
Oct-09-2008 02:15
dannib
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I use parallel compression all of the time.
I send all of my single drums to a buss (individually compressing the drums before) I then send this group to another group via a pre-fade send. On the second group i heavily compress the drums with up to 10db of gain reduction. I then bring out the bass and high end frequencies with an eq leaving the mid frequencies. I will then mix this buss with the original drums depending on how much punch i want.
Oct-09-2008 08:14
echosystm
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so, when you say you mix it with the original bus... do you mean like highpassing one and lowpassing the other? if you let them overlap, won't you get a lot of muddiness? also, how is this different from a compressor/multiband with wet/dry?
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Oct-09-2008 12:43
Hydroid
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this "trick" can b used the same with distortion or saturation.
can really make ur drums full and punchy tho i don't like to compress the whole group just certain parts or if ur mixing rock for example i would compress the shit out of the overheads.
i dont high pass or low pass. I just mix the compressed buss ALOT lower in the mix. Why would this cause muddiness? Have a read on paralell or NY compression. Mixing engineers use this all of the time. Multiband compression is totally different and you can't get a multiband version of for example a distressor or an API 2500
Oct-09-2008 17:45
Zak McKracken
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didnt we just have a thread about chicago style compression or whatever it is called?
I thought there was another thread on this that was bigger than that one, but I can't seem to find it. This is also known as "New York Compression". Something I think I'm gonna start playing with.
Oct-09-2008 19:32
echosystm
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Originally posted by dannib
Multiband compression is totally different
quote:
Originally posted by echosystm
how is this different from a compressor/multiband with wet/dry?
from what i can see, this is absolutely no different from a compressor or multiband compressor with wet/dry controls. Eg. Reacomp let's you bring the dry signal back in with the wet.
and it is not totally different from multiband compression with wet/dry controls - this would emulate EQing the two channels together, rather than just adjusting the levels...
