hey what's going on out there i'm Sean Divine hope you all are doing well
today's video we're going to be doing some very very cool things with
parallel compression but you don't need to know
the science of parallel compression even if you don't even know what parallel
compression is i'm going to show you how we can utilize
it in a very easy way that will add a lot of thickness to your
mix really bring out the 808s in your production add some sheen and
professional tone to your vocals as well as just add
that finishing touch to the stereo bus to make your mixes
really pop
so let's go ahead and talk about the
plug-in that we're going to be using for this
which is manny marroquin's tone shaper from waves
on the surface you might think that this is just kind of a standard eq plug-in
it is far from that there is a lot of very cool processing that's happening
under the hood and this is a parallel compression tool
so on the interface we have controls for the direct signal so we can blend that
with the processed or a parallel compressed
signals and then we have the parallel compression split into
four frequency bands we have control over the low
parallel compression the low mids the high mids
the highs and then finally we have a parallel processed
width control that we can mix in so let's start out with doing some parallel
compression on the 808 i'm going to go ahead and disable the
plug-in right now let you hear the mix and then we'll dive in
woke up this morning my feet to the floor and the darkness is faded
you know it comes back around like the hope i found
and when i lift you up will you hold me down you know it keeps getting
harder when we get further away from who we were meant to be
you keep on reminding me it don't matter who i was back then
cause we came a long way from back in the day
balanced mix but it's quite thin right now especially the 808 so we're going to
activate tone shaper on the 808 and i'm also going to
activate the low and the low mid parallel signals here
and we're going to blend these in and then these numbers one two and three
down here some different tonalities that you can mess around with and we'll
experiment with what's gonna work
best
so let's compare that disabled and enabled on the 808
so a really easy way to fatten up and round out your 808 for the mix with just
these two sliders here in tone shaper so tone
shaper is also really nice for processing the high end of a vocal so
i'm using this in a vocal chain here and let's just hear it without anything
going on and then we're going to bring in that parallel compressed signal for
the highs woke up this morning my feet to the
floor and the darkness is faded you know it comes back around like the
hope i found and when i lift you up will you hold me
so immediately we get that professional high-end brightness and clean sheen to
the vocal but it's very different than just a
standard eq boost as you've heard i mean there's some saturation there's subtle
things going on there in the parallel processed signal going
down to the stereo bus tone shaper obviously lends itself
really well to stereo bus processing because we've got the parallel splits
for each of the frequency bands and then that width control is really
nice just to add a little bit of a 3d effect
to your mix bus so let's go ahead and activate that
and then let's also bring up a little bit of the highs on the entire mix here
woke up this morning my feet to the floor and the darkness has faded
you know it comes back around like the hope i found
and when i lift you up will you hold me down
you know it keeps getting harder when we get further away
from who we were meant to be you keep on reminding me
it don't matter who i was back then cause we came a long way from back in
the day and that's a win if i got you by my side and i could do
all right so just three plug-ins there on the stereo bus,
the lead vocal as well as the 808 but a massive difference
in terms of how we were able to use parallel compression with
tone shaper so just to hear what a big difference it makes
let's disable those three instances of the tone shaper and then we'll compare
them there and see what we've got woke up this morning my feet to the
floor and the darkness is faded and you know it comes back around like
the hope i found and when i lift you up will you
hold me down you know it keeps getting harder
when we get further away from who we were meant to be you keep on
reminding me woke up this morning my feet to the
floor and the darkness is faded and you know it comes back around like
the hope i found and when i lift you up will you
hold me down you
all right so even if you don't have that much experience with parallel
compression you can very easily tell what a massive
sonic difference this can make and with tone
shaper we get a lot of really powerful tools packed in
here but implemented in a way that's very easy to
start blending these parallel process chains and do it with a very unique
sound i'm going to put a direct link to manny marroquin's tone shaper plug-in below
be sure to check it out i know you all are going to get a lot out of this one
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