Like the sound your compressor adds but want to retain some of the original signal’s sound? This technique could be for you When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Known primarily as a key engineering technique for adding weight to drums and basses, parallel ...

Parallel, or New York compression as it’s sometimes called, is a mixing technique that blends a dry and compressed signal, and is particularly popular for beats, bass, vocals and even the master bus.