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

In this video I show you how to parallel compress- step-by-step. :)
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00:00 Introduction
01:08 Why use parallel compression?
02:18 Setup
03:53 Don't miss this step
04:32 Pre vs Post fader- what should you use
09:38 My top 3 parallel compressors
14:27 Best Cubase Parallel compressor

[@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

[@toofattoskate1]

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

[@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🇬🇭

[@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

[@surgerywithoutknives2353]

Great stuff Dom 🔥really helpful

[@PurpleMusicProductions]

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

[@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! ✅✅✅

[@MrPorkker]

Thank you, love your videos and your vibe

[@djmusozaurus9241]

Thank you, Dom! Very usable lesson !

[@princeakorsah4066]

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

[@stoufenatz3728]

Great explanation, as usual. Thanks dom !

[@davidstojakovich2463]

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

[@patrickdesjardins9287]

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

[@edcorrado]

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

[@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.

[@mohammedabduljabbar-kg4wp]

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!

[@Ave_Musica]

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

[@project1265ffo]

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

[@billhaller965]

Always great, Dom!

[@Jura_JS]

Amazing video as always, thanks!

[@GordonBraicks]

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

[@jwp2460]

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

[@bandoli66]

Learned something. Thanks!

[@hamidrezazare7893]

Best music production channel in youtube , thank u

[@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. 👍👍👍

[@amphidrome]

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

[@D.Angelopoulos]

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

[@creatiw]

Great video. Thanks Dom. 🙏🏼

[@MR_Cellarpop]

Hi Dom!. Thanks for this video.

[@DannyCaruzo]

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

[@NarendraKumarJ]

Tx Dom! You're the best!

[@ArieOrr44]

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

[@sanji6923]

the song is dope 🎶

[@alinenunez4270]

great content , as always

[@lucygodfrey141]

Awesome

[@PENTASEAB6817]

thank you so much

[@derockalhassan]

You are really great, my mentor bless 🙌

[@bantei3908]

Thank you sir

[@MajorqeyBeatz]

Great video ❤❤

[@DCondricvideos]

God bless you my friend!!!!

[@visadissanayaka]

love from Sri Lanka ❤

[@ErixSamson]

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

[@annother3350]

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

[@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…

[@MrRuhavik]

Аmazing as always! Thanks, Dom.

[@vicneve1169]

Grrrrrrrrreat videoooooo!!

[@chizzulwinduh1941]

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

[@KrishaOnTheBeat]

Love from Sri lanka❤️

[@thelightmonkey1970]

Parallel Dom-pression 👍

[@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.

[@E.T.musics]

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

[@randalltomur9732]

I'm new here ..very helpful bro

[@softmusic_uk]

Great! Regards

[@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....

[@GSSahuwalaSahuwala]

❤❤❤❤good sr

[@kenselcer]

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?

[@evonworrier02]

I really needed this video 🥺

[@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.

[@mpmediagroup7973]

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

[@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?

[@musicchannel38745]

You're great man!

[@ArieOrr44]

Yeesssssssss that's what I'm waiting for

[@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?

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@MohammadSalah1979]

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

[@vibrantmistartist9297]

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

[@bl4478]

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

[@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

[@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

[@MajorqeyBeatz]

Can this process be used on vocals?

[@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

[@TharinduRoshan]

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

[@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)?

[@francisescaffre3386]

Your Joy make the difference with the others

[@lahattec]

Are there issues with parallel compressing everything in a mix?

[@MohammadSalah1979]

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

[@TonyRaybeats]

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

[@drwavenstein]

" Great !! But also, I can't seem to be able to properly set VST System Link (preferably spif). The online nfo is very little. And the Cubase 12 manual does not clearly explain how to exactly accomplish it. It would be a godsend to have someone explain it in detail. I've bn trying to figure it out for years to no avail. I would greatly appreciate it if you could do a video on this - Thank you "

[@DomSigalas]

What are you trying to do with System Link? :) I don't use it to be honest, if I was using more than one computers I would probably go for VEP :)

[@drwavenstein]

"@@DomSigalas I was trying to sync up two cmptrs, both running 12.0.4 Pro. Yet., there is very little up to nfo/videos on this Thank you. btw; *VEP* (???).

[@DomSigalas]

@@drwavenstein www.vsl.co.at/en/Vienna_Software_Package/Vienna_Ensemble_Pro :)

[@soundsafoolmusic]

Thanks Dom. i owe you another pint!

[@enoderbreite3615]

I can show you how! Let know!

[@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.

[@classrepresentative2251]

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 :)

[@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.

[@mrkrotosuk]

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

[@mrkrotosuk]

Pros/cons of each angle?

[@manuelgonzales6483]

FIRST 🥇

[@MrDjjonathansc]

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

[@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!

[@gastondelacaze4863]

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

[@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