Grouping your drums for stereo compression works wonders, someone mentioned parallel comrpession, anyone into that?

How you routing it?
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Hey, putting a stereo compressor across the entire drum set is a wonderful thing but, if you want to talk about creating some balls out of the individual pieces of the kit parallel compression is it!

can you explain what you refer to as parallel compression?

Easy,

Take one channel, say a kick drum, and bring that up to the console, use an insert send from that channel and feed it to a compressor. Following? Now take the output of the compressor and bring it back on a completly different channel and viola! parallel compression.

This becomes more difficult if you are just working out of the box but...

yea, i see... i thought it was much more complex than that... i've used it before, but never knew it had such a name... thanx for that

You can create a form of this by using an AUX also, to tap off a feed to compressor, or mutliple compressors with different E>Q> set up in their path.
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profalshapiro wrote:

Easy, Take one channel, say a kick drum, and bring that up to the console, use an insert send from that channel and feed it to a compressor. Following? Now take the output of the compressor and bring it back on a completly different channel and viola! parallel compression. This becomes more difficult if you are just working out of the box but...

Someone wrote about using AUX, that's the only way. If you break the dry signal chain by using INSERT it will not matter where it will return the dry signal will be cut off. The parrallel just mean that you'll mix the dry and compressed signal. It's subtle and let pass transcients. Of course on a DAW you can duplicate a track and get the same result..

RV

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Someone wrote about using AUX, that's the only way. If you break the dry signal chain by using INSERT it will not matter where it will return the dry signal will be cut off. The parrallel just mean that you'll mix the dry and compressed signal. It's subtle and let pass transcients. Of course on a DAW you can duplicate a track and get the same result..

That's not actually correct...

What happens is that with the implementation of a patchbay in a studio, the channel INSERTS appear on the bay in a half-normalled configuration. This means that with no jacks inserted the signal flows from top to bottom sockets, i.e output back to input. Inserting a jack in the top socket does not break the signal path, hence "borrowing" a signal is achievable. (naturally you need a patchbay for this)

You can do this crudely also, buy sticking a plug half-way in most INSERT points and achieve the same, AND/OR you can wire a three pole socket up to not break the path and provide an output.

Thought that needed clarification.


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I like to gate and compress the kick and snare in the channel (insert) and then take the whole kit to another compressor via an aux send and mix the compressed sound into the original mix. fat

Yeah that', do it!


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