Parallel Compression

April 16th, 2007 | Category: Recording Techniques, Sonar

I found a great article on parallel compression at a blog called Hometracked. It looks like a great blog and I plan on keeping up with it.

Parallel compression is the process of mixing an uncompressed signal with a compressed copy of it. The article at Hometracked shows how to do this in Sonar and includes audio examples.

I’m still experimenting with this technique, but getting good results.

2 Comments so far

  1. exorciser December 4th, 2007 11:40 am

    hello,

    in which sequencer do you do that? and how you do it? i just cant get this thing working in logic pro, i have huge problems with routing. any help appreciated.

    best,

    E

  2. Dave December 12th, 2007 12:41 am

    I don’t know much about Logic, but you should be able to mult off the drum tracks to a separate bus. You are trying to get two “copies” of the drums, so you can compress one and mix it with the uncompressed copy.

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