Parallel Processing - Drums

[jabestin]

This was very concise. Really simple explanation. I understood it pretty much like 30 seconds in, before even hearing the samples. Made sense. I see some of these tutorials on things that just suck, this one, however, was very clear and easy to understand, probably even to people who are completely new to mixing drums.

[firsty33]

Great video, thank you!! I've been using somewhat the same method, but I've learned a few extra details from you, thanks again!!

[JEKAZOL]

Thanks. I just used this on a metal drack. I hate over-compression on drum kits but needed the kick drum to come through more in the mix. You only need a tiny bit of the compressed version to get more of the kit coming through as a whole, but without that horrible compressed snare sound dominating everything. Brilliant - Thanks.

[boxcarmikey3]

Would this technique also known as "New York" compression?

Also, if you had an EQ insert on your DrumMix Aux (EQing all the drums the same) would it be a good Idea to copy that EQ to the Compression Aux?

Thanks Joe!

[johnthesoundman]

great job man!!!

[14thetrouble]

Perfect Video. Thnx. :)

[kharlos84]

will be the same effect , if i Duplicate all the track and send them to other bus and do the same you did Joe?

[kharlos84]

how do i do this in cubase 5 :( ?

[MattGibsonMusic]

@kharlos84 In Cubase, an insert an FX channel... this is the same as the Aux in ProTools

[kharlos84]

@MattGibsonMusic Thanks bro.

[adamlaparr]

Awesome trick man...I honestly think this may be what my drum mixes have been missing. I always feel they don't have that "big sound."

[jcomp21]

Wow, great videos!!! Thanks for all the help!

[jdigga96]

My question is... with the drums going thru the DRUM mix bus first with no processing(R4 and SSL comp or disabled) why not just bring drum straight to and aux track with that digi compressor?  are the drums being effected at all going thru a dry drum mix bus?

[HomeStudioCorner]

Hopefully I'm understanding your question.

The whole point of parallel compression is that you have one dry, unprocessed signal, and you blend it with a compressed signal. So, the first copy of the signal needs to have no processing on it. Make sense?

[frenchtube89000]

Hi there. Couldn't you just use pre-fader sends on each of the drum tracks to an aux track with the compressor on it?

[HomeStudioCorner]

Well, the problem with that is you lose all of your levels. Pre-fade send ignores the fader levels you've already established in your mix, so you'd have to re-adjust the send levels as well. This is counter-productive, because the whole idea of parallel compression is to treat two identical signals in different ways.

Hope that clears it up.

[000000rj]

really good, well explained. Good effort!

[MetallicBlueAx]

Thanks for this!

[jamaalspeights]

Awesome video! Maybe you can do a vid on difference between bus and aux and how they are used?