Talk:Parallel compression

A fact from Parallel compression appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 March 2010. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that New York-based mix engineer Michael Brauer uses five compressors in his parallel compression method, to achieve the desired vocal sound for The Rolling Stones, KT Tunstall and Coldplay?

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Latest comment: 18 years ago4 comments4 people in discussion

I don't agree with merging this, as it would be useful to have a full technical description on the page like the one that appears in one of the references that was removed by a previous edit. 203.144.32.165 03:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)Reply

Does parallell compression have any other effect, than reducing the ratio of the compressor used? 80.98.84.149 17:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

Parallel compression doesn't reduce the RATIO of the compressor used, for starters. What it does is keeps a similar ratio while minimally impacting the sound quality. Quite a fun little trick, that. Fun for mastering. And no, we shouldn't merge it. We need someone who really knows their stuff in this regard to expand this into a tutorial, since it is a useful tool not likely to soon become a unified device.

The question above was mine. What I was thinking about:

If we add the dry signal:

To a compressor that looks like this:

File:Parallel compression 2.png

Wouldn't we get a compressor that looks like this?

File:Parallel compression 3.png

MyNameHasBeenTaken 13:44, 5 July 2007 (UTC)Reply

Parallel compression does not keep the same ratio - the combination of the direct path and the compressed path give generate a derived ratio (transfer characteristic) that is always less than that set on the compressor. I'd be willing to expand this article into something with a lot more detail.

203.97.220.175 (talk) 19:12, 10 January 2008 (UTC)Reply