What is your favourite Compressor for Parallel Compression?

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  1. PopstarKiller

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    And how does that deviate from my usage of the term?

    By the way, no one "invented" parallel compression, people came up with this technique separately because it's a pretty simple idea. In any case a doctor of technology has no authority in the definition of a technique, and ffs stop thinking that there's only "one" way to do parallel compression. Parallel compression is a compression in parallel. Simple as that. It describes all kinds of compression used in parallel. How is that hard to understand?
     
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    'The internal circuitry of Dolby A noise reduction, introduced in 1965, contained parallel buses with heavy compression on one of them...'

    Jesus, linguistically you're right, but this is not a linguistic forum, but an audio forum. And really, there can't be any doubt what parallel compression means in an audio production.
     
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    ...And? How can you mistake usage with invention?
    Why can't there be any doubt? people use parallel compression differently to achieve different sounds, just like when someone says "compression" he may mean limiting a signal, or doing slow compression to make the attack pop out more, etc.
    Now obviously most of the times parallel compression contains heavy compression, but that doesn't mean it can't be used gently as well. For instance, Chris Lord-Alge, in one of his Audio Legends courses, used a Slate VBC Red compressor on the mix buss to compress about 2-3db, and then he turned the blend knob to about 50%, making it parallel compression, so that the compression would not completely overtake the original signal. You can use it similarly on drum busses or guitars.
     
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    Parallel compression rather sums up on a kind of an additive EQ effect in highs, with some dynamic range loss.
    Compression is 'good' for low output levels, for psychoacoustic reasons only, and for EQ-ing it's better to use an EQ. If you want to get highs, get a load of this.
    Any compression in general is unnatural by definition, as well as mixing the same track with itself.
     
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    Some people need to take a pencil and a ruler, draw a line and then draw a line parallel to that and should comprehend about how that translates to working with audio signals ;)
     
  7. What is your favourite Compressor for Parallel Compression?

    Anything. You can use any compressor for parallel compression. It depends on what you're compressing.
     
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    lol, another one of these threads where people get offended at others sharing their opinion... nice...
     
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    If it's supposed to be run parallel and you did a good take then why the need to compress?
    You mean a lower volume representation that uses EQ 2 incorporate what others find smiley?
     
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    No, he didn't use any parallel compression on the mix bus on his Audio Legends 1 & 2 course.
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    SPC2000 Serial/Parallel Compressor:mad::like:
     
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    Because people like to follow a trend.
     
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    It's either a yes or no thing. There is a city called Parallel Compression City, and either you're living within the city limits or not. Perhaps you live very close in one of it's suburbs, Compressionwithabitofthecleansignalmixedin Town, but no, you're not living in the big city.

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    we should determine if classic recording genre or electronic genre otherwise its just :dunno:

    further i bet it sounds different on midi or resulting audio from that midi
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    so now old classic ppl say what fx on midi...
    or how some ppl refuse do see sense in use of so heavy comping to get it all into spectrum when doing extreme e genre

    PPL who track acustic guitars may have different approach :mad::lmao:
     
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    :woot: An audio compressor on MIDI doesn't even work in Reaper and that says something. [​IMG]

    Doesn't matter, the appraoch and the goal are the same. Let me give you a (slightly exaggerated) metaphor:
    The profile of the 'untreated' waveform looks like a mountain chain. A lot of ups and downs with different slopes.
    In the parallel compression you turn this profile into a nice flat brick.
    By blending this brick in, you maintain all the ups and downs, aka the original dynamics (goal 1), while raising the RMS (goal 2).
     
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    It might have been in another masterclass then, I don't have the files right now to check, but he definitely did it at some point.
     
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    IK Multimedia Precision Comp * 33609 emulation * is better from the UAD 33609 !!!!!
     
  20. Blue

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    I personnally like to use a 1176 for parallel compression,though I don't use often this technique.BUT...
    An 1176 generates distortion,so I don't know if the 1176 is the best for this task?...:unsure:
     
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