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 ...

For as long as records have been made, producers have looked for creative ways to make their tracks sound as good as they possibly can. Drum parts might be reinforced with samples to provide more ...

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.