From the course: Tips and Tricks for Modern Producers
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Parallel compression on drums
From the course: Tips and Tricks for Modern Producers
Parallel compression on drums
- [Instructor] All right, so now I want to talk about parallel processing on your drums because one of the things that comes up a lot for me is getting the drums to really knock without going way overboard on boosting certain frequencies or super-compressing them to the point where they don't have any punch. These are things that we all deal with and here's a way that sometimes works for me depending on the style of music. We're going to create a parallel drum compression buss. This is the same drum part that I was using over in Logic a video or so ago. I'm doing it in Pro Tools now because it's audio and I feel like the routing is a little bit easier to wrap your head around. So we have a pretty good balance going on right here. Let's take a listen. Just going to get my order straight. (electronic beat) Then if we get to our subby part. Okay, so let's assume that we've done some treatment of all of these different sounds. There are certain things that we can do to make them sit a…
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