tsunchoo Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 What's the difference between Parallel Compression and simply mixing the wet/dry signal within the compression plug-in? cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shivermetimbers Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 What's the difference between Parallel Compression and simply mixing the wet/dry signal within the compression plug-in? cheers No difference as you have phrased the question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lagerfeldt Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 In reality it's often better to do parallel compression by pre-fader sending at unity to a bus. This way you can linear phase equalize the parallel signal and shape the result on the aux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eriksimon Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 What's the difference between Parallel Compression and simply mixing the wet/dry signal within the compression plug-in? cheers Simpler routing, but hardly any (finer) control. True parallel compression/processing is much more versatile and controllable than just using the wet/dry slider. I see the w/d option as either a quick 'n dirty fix, or for individual tracks/insruments only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsunchoo Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 thanks for the replies. ok, so could you define true parallel compression? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsunchoo Posted October 21, 2011 Author Share Posted October 21, 2011 In reality it's often better to do parallel compression by pre-fader sending at unity to a bus. This way you can linear phase equalize the parallel signal and shape the result on the aux. thanks for this - gonna use it as a chat-up line.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eriksimon Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 define true parallel compression? Where you route your complete mix or submix to (at least) two Aux Channels. One without, and one with compressor; you know, dry and wet. Only this time you can treat the outputs of both compressed and uncompressed signal with different plugins (EQ as the most common one) and you have control of the amount of signal of each individually, instead of that somewhat crude d/w slider that uses the akward "percentage" scale... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lagerfeldt Posted October 21, 2011 Share Posted October 21, 2011 You will need two aux'es if you're talking about submixes, but parallel processing isn't specifically related to submixes, though it works very well on e.g. a drum sum. One regular channel in the mix + a pre-fader send to an aux will do when parallel processing a track in the mix. Then blend in the aux. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lagerfeldt Posted October 22, 2011 Share Posted October 22, 2011 Here's an article I wrote about parallel multiband compression in Logic Pro. It's a great trick for mastering or sculpting: http://en.wikiaudio.org/Logic_Pro:_parallel_multiband_compression Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tsunchoo Posted October 24, 2011 Author Share Posted October 24, 2011 thanks for all the replies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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