Parallel Compression on the Whole Mix – the ‘Rear Buss’ Technique

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Don't forget the whole purpose is to keep the ORIG transients...so, on the Blended Parallel use FAST Attack settings. Most guys forget and use the setting to preserve transients. You want to wipe em off the compressed ball and then tuck it up under, bring the level up slowly ...to fatten it up. It's like the opposite of what they usuall do. You want the parallel side to be the Mid/Fat, the bulk, and the Orig to be the High w/ Transients. You get more in the end this way. Hard to Explain. Yes, On the Dual Mono! You can also go LCR like Andrew also does. - Gilroy

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I must have said it before about you but it's important. Thé gréât thing about you is that you never assume that your audience is only people who know certain things. So you explain everything. Even if I know somethings, I don't mind your explanation because you never know. Sometimes my take on something might be wrong because I coukd have forgotten or got the wrong idea from the start. After watching a video of yours, knowledge is reinforced in my mind. Keep doing videos this way. It is what puts you in a special place for learning. And your ego is minimal. Your goal is to learn and share your knowledge. I will always go back to your videos to clarify and strengthen my knowledge. I bought your basic video set awhile ago(at least a year) and keep watching them every so often to make sure I am clear on basic concepts. Those videos are worth gold. Thanks again for everything.

perrypelican
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Extremely detailed demonstration, really appreciate your level of detail and time to explain all the specifics. Thank you!

jacksoncolemusic
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Been using this trick to master an album that was sent to me. A good solution to material that was mixed too loud but has great tone. I was able to “fill in” the low and high mids this way using a band-pass parametric EQ (250-2500kHz) or whatever fit the bill for the song, and then the UAD SSL on the return fader. Typically 6-8dB of reduction but automated and gainstaged very carefully, some phase issues may come into play when the return fader is adding too much level into the stereo buss. I was typically at about -33 to-29 on that return fader

ledhed
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This ‘rear buss’ technique is so good to be aware of. It’s a versatile approach ... for example ... one doesn’t always have to heavily compress the original mix buss to attain ‘streaming volume’ target.

DatAnydex
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Ah I was doing this in my session last night and wasn’t sure what exactly I was doing but loved the result. Great video, now I can move forward a little more confidently.

EvoBby
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This is a really really cool trick, leave it to the old-timers who always had to find workarounds or just straight up try things with their consoles... just tried this on a metal mix and it really added a nice extra dimension. I used the SSL as well and I did find that the stereo version of the plug-in had a strange phasey sound, so I used the multi-mono version of the plug-in and that did it. And you can also un-check the FMP button to shape sounds differently if you want. I decided the snare could use a little extra snap so I added in a little bit of my room snare sound to the rear bus as well. So many options, this is really going to be great for my workflow going forward. Thanks Graham.

TheGarageRecordingSC
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You're subtly pitching these catchy songs in these videos Graham, I love it :)

unfa
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Just tried it, it really works well and thickens up the mix nicely thanks Graham!

BullFunkZoo
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Not that different from what CLA described (in a Pensado interview if I remember correctly): send everything except for drums and bass to a bus (I call it ALL-B&D) and compress that. He described it as "let the song mix itself". The main difference is you're applying parallel compression to that bus. The other difference is that you're including the bass as well.

fdjmac
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I think we should start calling this the Scheps Bus! Awesome trick!

michaelcompton
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One thing to note (for Logic, at least) is that creating a bus track will automatically be mono. Make sure you change that to stereo if you want it to match your panning

hankfontaine
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Woooo! Congrats for the mix, it's sound amazingly fat & present! Nice technics, I'll try this out on the futur! Thanks for sharing!

andrel
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Also a nice trick for live foh, i was doing that a long time ago a bit out of necessity and also taste. In a event /live hall i had a very nice soundcraft series5 analogue console and only 4ch of compressor and also to put them to each different insert i had to hang out of the balcony or climb a ladder, so i used them in group channels, 2 parallel or only the group and 2 for a stereo parallel mix compression. Some times the band was playing hard but it was eating time for the people (weddings, tourist events etc) so i used the compressed mix (with high pass cause i had low end energy from the monitors) to be gently but also hearing everything and then when i had more crowd or it was dancing time i had the compressed(using other eq than before) to boost the more dymamic clean signal, so different use through the night

mpasistasyalanci
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An awesome vid yet again Graham!!! Kudos!!!

drnoelpapa
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Wow, this is a fantastic tip! can't wait to try it

Grantborland
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Amazing technique and video! At last... learning something new!

kaveiros
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I had the pleasure of attending Andrew's seminar this year at Mix With The Masters and can confirm his extensive use of this technique. The only difference I can note is that Andrew uses a UAD 1176 AE in dual mono mode for his rear bus - dual mono is really the important part. You can set your sends to FMP but if the compressor isn't dual mono, it will have zero effect because information panned on one side will effect that on the other - this is inherent with any stereo compressor. Andrew uses very few, if any, group auxes for instruments. A lot of the sends to the rear bus come right off the instrument tracks themselves and sometimes certain tracks aren't sent at all. Based on Andrew's reasoning, whether or not certain instruments get sent to the rear bus depends on how much interaction between them is desired.

giordash
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Incredibly helpful and informative instruction! 🙏🏽

Guitaralimusic
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Great Graham, I love the ssl comp, thanks for this trick!!!...The more tricks the better, the better playing the better...:) Drummergreets from The Netherlands, Jeroen Simons, Independent, ex-Epica.

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