Greg Wells Parallel Mix Compression

0:00 - Intro
0:33 - Compressor Settings
1:29 - Audio Examples
4:12 - Conclusion

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[DarrellSt.Blaine]

How funny. I was inspired to do this with the exact same plugin after reading how Andrew Scheps would set up the rear bus on his old Neve desk. I only use it on certain songs but it sounds great. I also use limit mode though a slightly slower release time. A little goes a long way but I find it especially useful on simpler mixes that need “embiggening”. 😁

[f-unfairstudiotime]

Sounds really good, and suits this particular mix very well!
Also, truly lovely song, lyrics, music and mix, which is especially pleasing to hear, even within a tech tutorial, even more so when it's from a YT channel being factual instead of boastful, and giving facts over ego, info over just promote-like-a-pro constant more or less obvious sales pitches.
Kudos!

[GloveBunniesVideos]

I've done a similar trick using Waves' Abbey Road Saturator. It really warms up the mids and brings some definition to the whole mix. Great tip!

[MikeBrayton]

I'd love to know what your DAW stock compressor could sound like in this context. With maybe a little saturation from your stock saturator... You're basically adding a little more attack, a little bit of pumping, a little bit of saturation and a little bit of low level volume increase. At this late stage of the mix, where everything is basically as you want it to be already, what is the difference whether I use that compressor or just about anything else to add some subtlety? Wow, I'm so skeptical about new plugins these days. Of course, I say this after owning so many of them already.

[TimmSpinn]

When using the Waves TG Desk, it only has a Recovery knob which is a combo Attack/Release. But you're doing fast release, slower attack here. So it's not really possible to get the exact same result, which is a bummer. I tried it though on a faster Recovery and it still sounds nice though (even when level matched). So this gets a thumbs up from me! And I'm going to try it on more sessions in the future for sure! Thanks.

[jjtweed-music]

Ah...very thorough, simple tutorial. The way to be!

[sgfdancecompany]

Great TEchinuqe!!!! Also somehitng to add color is to use Parallel Distortion in the full mix.

[davejohnsonaudio]

Brings out the tambourine nicely too. What other compressor and saturation could you mimic this with, if possible? Also, what are some other common uses for this compressor?

[OrganicRecordsCL]

This technique is before or after mix bus processing? Great video!

[rome]

I've been doing parallel mix compression for a while, but I've never tried it with my compressor in limiter mode. Granted, I've been using a really high ratio. So maybe it's close to the same thing? My understanding is 10:1 and up is considered limiting?

[eugene.francis]

Where did you get these settings from? Did he give a tutorial? And include drums and vocals in the signal, too? I've seen Andrew Scheps do it and I know Greg has the Softube preset but...yeah. Thanks for the help!

[gfunny]

Question - are you sending to this parallel bus from your master buss (after your normal master buss chain) or are you sending to it before your master buss chain? and if its before does the return of the parrallel go through the master buss chain ?

[cyberhawken]

To anyone who will try this: Level match the parallel channel and bypass the compressor back and forth to see what its acually doing. Bypassing the entire channel will sound better 100% of the time because of the gain increase.

[FredDeMassiveAlambic]

Volume boost makes it almost impossible to compare.. Use a compressor with a mix knob and an output setting and set is as an insert : why would you use software with analog limitations ?

[kutilkol]

You never know what you doing unless you level match. Louder soundd better.. poor tutorial

[stupidusername]

Hi Joe, for your mixbus compressors, what dB level do you calibrate them to? -14? -18db?