What is Parallel Compression? Well it helps to know what regular compression is first. We’ve written several posts about that here on Home Brew Audio:
See Improve Or Ruin Your Audio With an Effect Called Compression, Should You Use Compression In Audio Recording? and Vocal Compression Using Reaper’s ReaComp Effect Plugin. Those last two have videos to help explain compression.It is applying compression (see our post
For parallel compression, you apply the effect twice on two (or more) copies of the same signal. Each copy of the signal is processed differently – compressed with one set of settings, then again with different settings – but plays back simultaneously with the original. The copies are mixed together.
Here is an article about it with a lot more detail from the Sundown Sessions Blog – https://sundownsessionsstudio.com/parallel-compression-vocals/
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