Tutorial: Parallel Compression
November 7, 2007 – 12:27 pm by Jonathan Grand
Also known as New York compression for its use in the formerly-known-as “New yorker” or ultra-compressed mixing style (which actually leaked to the west coast even before the Lord-Alge brothers made it popular).
Very simple concept: bus the audio to a new auxiliar (”parallel”… you guessed it) and apply compression separately in that auxiliar (like you should be doing with reverbs and delays) and then mixing it with the unaltered audio, keeping the attack of the original audio and using mostly the decay modification of compression. Tutorial by Mutant Audio (but you don’t have to use Fruity Loops…). Haha. Fruity Loops. Heh 
3 Responses to “Tutorial: Parallel Compression”
I have tried this technique in PT 7.3.1. I get a noticeable latency between the compressed track and the original track. How can I time-align the compresed aux signal and the original drum tracks?
By Ken De Vries on Jan 31, 2008
Good question. Try to place the same plug-in as an insert in the original track, but Bypass it.
By Jonathan Grand on Jan 31, 2008
–>Ken De Vries:
http://www.gearslutz.com/board/tips-techniques/186501-plug-delay-compensation-protools-le-mp.html
By Audiofrenia on Jun 24, 2009