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I wonder sometimes if people would have as many issues with parallel comp if it was presented in a different way. Rather than "parallel comp" let's use an inverse concept termed "parallel source injection".
To use PSI, compress the way that you normally would (nobody has a problem with this) and try summing a given amount of the source track from the point before the compressor (possibly delayed slightly to avoid latency or phase issues) back into your compressed signal.
That way you're adding good to "better" rather than adding nasty compression to your source. Assuming that the purpose of this technique is to add back some element of the source in order to undo the negative artifacts of the original compression (e.g. lost transients, space, etc.).
Additionally the source track being summed might be filtered, which is a slightly different approach than filtering the compressed signal and adding that as in PMBC, or FPC (filtered parallel compression).
Ok, now pass the fairy dust ...
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