Parallel Compress Like a Pro- Step-by-step GUIDE

[@starbreezemusic]

Dom, I've been a Cubase user for a nearly 15-20 years. The boost and inspiration your channel and videos has given me as a producer is huge. I use your channel in my everyday producing and come often back for new and old techniques to apply to my songs, thanks and keep up the good work! 🙏

[@twilightbiscuit]

same here, bro

[@greglodestone8254]

I love Dom for this service to humanity it's a great privilege to be a partaker of the great tutorials you give. Much love from Ghana🇬🇭

[@toofattoskate1]

your way of explaining stuff is so understandable. unlike most other youtube mixing tutorials. thank you

[@Jondus850]

Thanks, Dom!! There were a few steps I was doing wrong, so it's amazing you made this video! It helped me hear some snare sounds I've been after for a really long time. That snappy articulate is super nice!! Cubase 14 Pro was a really cool update, btw!!

[@visadissanayaka]

love from Sri Lanka ❤

[@LaurenPassarelli]

Excellent, Dom! You're a natural teacher, awesome musician & superb engineer. Love these! Molti grazie!

[@mpmediagroup7973]

YES DOM! A video on each instrument would be AMAZING! been needing this for like forever! Look forward to it! ✅✅✅

[@Ave_Musica]

Love it!!! Would love to know your compression techniques for different instruments, as you mentioned, especially orchestral/cinematic instruments. Cheers!

[@Peterjdjdjdjdjfjfj]

Dude ur energy makes us all wanna mix and enjoy! I think its awesome to record in your studio with your presence.

[@CarlstenProductions]

Dom, you're like the only content creator I follow regurlarly on youtube. I'm learning all the time!

[@hamidrezazare7893]

Best music production channel in youtube , thank u

[@jeffschwisow]

Perfect timing (again!), Dom! I’ve been working with a track where I was struggling to get the drum sound I was looking for. After watching this video I dove back into the parallel compression channel I already had, tweaked some things and…voila! An energetic, full drum sound with snap. Thanks, mate.

[@PurpleMusicProductions]

Great video as always. YES a video on each instrument. I have learned so much from your videos.

[@KrishaOnTheBeats]

Love from Sri lanka❤️

[@amphidrome]

As many compression techniques videos as possible please. This one was great. Thanks Dom.

[@patrickdesjardins9287]

Like usual, Excellent post by Professor Dom, The best ! A great artist more !

[@GordonBraicks]

Nice to see that in the end, the Cubase stock plugins are in fact great as well.

[@edcorrado]

Excellent, love your videos, they've helped me a lot!

[@princeakorsah4066]

Thanks Dom, awesome as always. I really learned a lot from you, from Australia 🇦🇺

[@NarendraKumarJ]

Tx Dom! You're the best!

[@project1265ffo]

Amazing explanation, finally i understand the "dot" thing in the send FX :)

[@andesneko]

Even for stuff I already know it is always a pleasure watching your videos, Dom! And certainly there’s always something to be learned

[@davidstojakovich2463]

Dom, thanks for the lesson. Finally, PC explained in a way that’s understood! Great job!

[@D.Angelopoulos]

Parallel memories... thank's Master...!!!

[@MrBellerose]

Thank you, love your videos and your vibe

[@E.T.musics]

Thanks its so usefull thanks. How about making one of these videos for electric and aqustic guitars ?

[@billhaller965]

Always great, Dom!

[@djmusozaurus9241]

Thank you, Dom! Very usable lesson !

[@garyleister]

Really good tuto. Thanks

[@surgerywithoutknives2353]

Great stuff Dom 🔥really helpful

[@stoufenatz3728]

Great explanation, as usual. Thanks dom !

[@MR_Cellarpop]

Hi Dom!. Thanks for this video.

[@ArieOrr44]

found the answer on a earlier video about paralel compression on vocals

[@creatiw]

Great video. Thanks Dom. 🙏🏼

[@ErixSamson]

// Compression for Bass video would be really welcome! Thanks in advance.

[@annother3350]

...or Limiting... I think many people use a limiter

[@philbartlett6918]

And again, a great vid. I have watched your video on PC for vocals many times as it is very new to me. I used it for the first time this week. 👍👍👍

[@DannyCaruzo]

Yeah , thats how you doin it the right way , excellent video and nice Compressors for the Parallel use !

[@graniteonion6799]

Ahh hay Dom, you seem to be doing a few more regular Cubase tings, all very good, I really enjoyed the FabFilters review/tutorial, what a great piece of software that is, recently added to my arsenal, I’ve been dabbling with Cubase since Win98 I even tried to get it to work on a win2000 once, ridiculous I know, NT, but such was the thirst to get it to work, obviously back in the day and now after several years of operating the hacked versions I finally bought 10.5 then went to 11 and after a lightning, USB2 ,dongle frying episode I went for that groovy update offer to Cubase 12, WOW Thank you for drawing our attention to the offer still running …very cool ….the lightning also took out the UiR24 which I’m still waiting 3months later for DV24/7 (never again) to replace or repair!!! Hey love your videos and advice and perspective ….rock on dude Peace…

[@sanji6923]

the song is dope 🎶

[@jwp2460]

Thanks so much, this is super helpful to me for making my drum tracks sound more alive!

[@rogercabo5545]

Dom have the most interesting und useful vids of all. Thanks! In thought about to use a clipper from Sir Audio Tools or L2 from Waves and see what happen for a test as well.

[@chizzulwinduh1941]

Yes please, a video on parallel comp for the bass guitar and drums

[@thelightmonkey1970]

Parallel Dom-pression 👍

[@alinenunez4270]

great content , as always

[@bandoli66]

Learned something. Thanks!

[@marcusstrymon693]

11:20 that rhodes hits so hard, greatest hallion sound ever and masterfully played, i want to party Dom how is that song called?

[@Jura_JS]

Amazing video as always, thanks!

[@Danichovideos]

God bless you my friend!!!!

[@mpmediagroup7973]

Hi Dom, any chance you can do a video for parallel on vocals, synths, guitar and piano pls. Thanks

[@lucygodfrey141]

Awesome

[@derockalhassan]

You are really great, my mentor bless 🙌

[@kennyselcer]

Great stuff! Thank you. Would you ever use the smashed drum sound, or vocals, or anything, with more mellow genres, like folk rock, Americana, singer songwriter? Or are these genres too "dainty" for this?

[@PENTASEAB6817]

thank you so much

[@bantei3908]

Thank you sir

[@vicneve1169]

Grrrrrrrrreat videoooooo!!

[@djfkshg]

thanks

[@MajorqeyBeatz]

Great video ❤❤

[@LudwigKazhan]

Аmazing as always! Thanks, Dom.

[@MohammadSalah1979]

Hello Dom how are You its okey to make it for each VCA Like for Strings And Vocal Group or only for Drums

[@randalltomur9732]

I'm new here ..very helpful bro

[@macrocosmic]

Hi. Should I keep the crashes and cymbals on the same bus with the drums?

[@FirstLast-nr6gf]

Hi Dom, I like your videos, especially older ones, about guitar and piano plugins and keyboard drumming. Can you please make a video about playing congas on keyboard. Are there any good plugins. I know almost every DAW and general MIDI has congas, but those sounds are very limited. There are multiple tones you can play on real congas, such as open tone, muffled tone, closed slap, open slap, mini slap, bass tone, etc. Also there are conga, tumba, super tumba (there are multiple names for similar drums) which can be tuned differently. I don't think most drum kits let you tune conga to G or G# and tumba to C or C#, for example. Thanks.

[@toondeveltere3205]

Hey Dom, I don't know if you still read comments on this, but I was wondering what this song is? I've heard it in many of your videos and I love it! Maybe somebody here knows what song this is?

[@GSSahuwalaSahuwala]

❤❤❤❤good sr

[@TharinduRoshan]

Hei dom, whats the version of the song “Complicated” you play here ? 😊

[@tintinsadhukhan9765]

Hello, Dom , Can you provide with a tutorial where you let us know what should we do what exact treatment we should do with a Strings ensemble group tracks? Tintin from India

[@tudorhoria764]

Hello Dom Sigalas . the piano on the Yamaha montage sounds better than the DGX 670 - 660 cvp. The quality of the piano and the sound. I use 2 Hs7 monitors and a Yamaha Hs8s subwoofer. Please answer me . thank you very much . Horia

[@VSD78]

I have a question: is Wavelab cast and Wabelab pro still needed for audio production or mastering? Or can all this be done directly in Cubase? Thanks

[@MajorqeyBeatz]

Can this process be used on vocals?

[@BrookeLynn-l4c]

Should I use parallel compression on "plug-in" instruments (or do they already do most all of the basics to the sounds when they're creating them)? Or should I only use it mostly on "live" instruments? Not sure I'm using all the correct terminology here, hope my question is clear enough though>

[@softmusic_uk]

Great! Regards

[@mpmediagroup7973]

Hi Dom, when I create an FX channel track for parallel compression and I send the signal I want to compress to it,does it have the channel effects (e.g. EQ, compression etc) from the original channel or is the signal dry? So let’s say I have a vocal track. I add EQ and compression to that vocal track and send that vocal track to an FX channel for parallel compression, is the EQ and compression applied to the initial vocal track still on the parallel signal sent to the FX track or is it dry as if it was recorded straight into the audio track with no effects?! Hope this makes sense. This is for Cubase pro 12 specifically. Thanks in advance.

[@bl4478]

Can I do parallel compression on groups if I already have other compressors on the separate channels?

[@vibrantmistartist9297]

I use it for things like ethnic preccussion instrument that lack low-end and "punch"

[@heartbreaktimemachine]

Am I the only person that has seen so many of these videos they now talk themselves through Cubase logistics in Dom's voice? I do....

[@s.schmidt5923]

Buuut ... if you create a send and then mix this additional effect channel in, don't you also add loudness with every bit you add, so you will always have a louder signal than before in the end? This makes it difficult to evaluate if the new drumtrack really does sounds better, (or just louder)?

[@Al69BfR]

I don‘t know if I‘m overthinking this, but I set up my mixes with a group for each instrument where i sum up the instrument signals and all specific parallel or send effects before I send them to the next group where I then add the returns from i.e. NY Compression or Rear Bus Compression. So in the end I have a tree where only two groups (one for instruments and one for voice) are sending their signal to my mix bus or stereo out. Or should I go more easy on groups and send my effects directly to the main/mix bus?

[@lahattec]

Are there issues with parallel compressing everything in a mix?

[@ArieOrr44]

I've been using paralel compression to bring up to the front weak parts like everything around it was hiding it , things that started wrong in the main balance

[@annother3350]

Which plugin or setting would you guys use if you wanted to add a bit of room ambience pre-parallel comp because on real drums the magic, to me, is in the super-compression of the room ambience

[@TonyRaybeats]

it looks like you literally did the slowest attack an release on the 76?

[@evonworrier02]

I really needed this video 🥺

[@TonyRaybeats]

I thought fast attack would be .1? not 7.0?

[@jeffwessman]

Yes, that threw me off. Not sure why he set it to the slow attack and release.

[@perkunas7]

How do you make that top line in eq to stay fixed? 🥺

[@DomSigalas]

Hey Lukas! Which line are you referring to? :)

[@perkunas7]

@@DomSigalas hi, I ment the line that shows peaks in eq window. Like white that stays even if youbstop playing the music

[@Yuusou.]

@@perkunas7 When you have your EQ opened, you have a gear icon on the top right. Click on it and choose Hold FFT Post EQ Peak Curve.

[@MohammadSalah1979]

and there is a problem with Control Room if i use (MediaBay) the Sound Go Any Help

[@mrkrotosuk]

What about the other way? Direct Routing? Whats the difference?

[@mrkrotosuk]

Pros/cons of each angle?

[@mr.1241-g6x]

How can i mix and master my song production with you dom ? Please answer i tried to contact but failed

[@DomSigalas]

Hello my friend! Did you send an email through my website? Let me know , it might have been caught by our spam filter :)

[@musicchannel38745]

You're great man!

[@kMaxRx]

3:02: What I'm not seeing is how you're sending a COPY of the audio to the Sends slot named: =Drums. I watched the other video on vocals (kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqewqJ99ftmNha8) and both times I can't see where this audio copy is being added to the sends. What am I missing? I don't get what =Drums or =Drums2 are. Thanks!

[@francisescaffre3386]

Your Joy make the difference with the others

[@ArieOrr44]

Yeesssssssss that's what I'm waiting for

[@MrDjjonathansc]

all this time i was doing very very bad the parallel comp.. haha always in post fader :(

[@enoderbreite3615]

I can show you how! Let know!

[@Lacaze89]

Hi Dom! Hi everyone! Anyone knows if he's using Windows 10 or 11? Thank you!

[@soundsafoolmusic]

Thanks Dom. i owe you another pint!

[@manuelgonzales6483]

FIRST 🥇

[@adamregan4921]

Hi Dom, great tutorial a usual. What are your thoughts with this parallel technique compared to your sends technique? kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3a2npZjmL2feKc