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How To Make Your Drums Hit HARDER | Parallel Compression 101

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How To Make Your Drums Hit HARDER | Parallel Compression 101


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Do you feel like your drum mixes are missing the smack and slam of your favorite rock & heavy metal records? Parallel Compression and some BSA magic might be the answer to all your problems!

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:26 Mix – No parallel compression
0:59 What is parallel compression?
1:36 Paracomp in action
2:16 Paracomp in solo
2:58 Should I send all of my drums to paracomp?
4:09 Compressor & settings
5:03 BSA Escalator for saturation & bite
6:01 BSA Clipper to tame peaks
7:03 BSA magic before and after
8:02 Outro

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