Parallel compression is a powerful mixing technique, but it's often misunderstood. Read on to find out what it really does — and how it can help you make better mixes. When talking with sound-engineering students of all ages and experience, I often find that one area where most struggle is compression. Perhaps that's not surprising, since the concepts are fairly challenging on their own — before even contemplating the subtleties of different kinds of physical implementation (or modelling). Compressors are available in myriad different forms, using feed-forward or feedback control paths, with RMS- or peak-weighted side-chains, and even more variations of audio-attenuation device, such as opto attenuators, diode rings, vari-mu valves, solid-state VCAs… and the list goes on! Let's leave such complexities aside for the moment, though, because in this article I really want to try to clear up some common misunderstandings about the increasingly fashionable technique of p...
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