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Parallel Inject
Parallel Compression is a technique where you blend the
compressed signal with the original signal. Say that you have
a heavily compressed drum track where all the transients
have been lost (compressed). By adding a little bit of parallel
compression you can blend in the original signal (with the
original transients) with the high­energy compressed signal
(without transients) and thus get the best of both worlds.
This is a technique that is very easy to achieve with a send­
bus, but this baby does a little bit more than that. First of all, you won't get any problem with
the
Lookahead since the dry signal is delayed with the same delay time as the
compressed signal. Then the dry signal will be affected by the same analogue modeling
mojo as the compressed one, which means that some of the distortion and coloring of the
compressor will also have a an effect on the dry signal. And at last, the
Output Peak meter
will of course show the sum of these signals, so that you can set a proper output level.
Whenever you change the gain reduction (for example by changing the Input
volume) you will need to change the Parallel Inject since the volume of the
compressed signal has changed. But be careful ­ sometimes the dry signal is
much louder than the compressed signal!
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Figure 13: Parallel
compression is fun.