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Is the congestion coming because of an increase in amplitude of undesirable freqs??
That were attenuated by so many db to get them into a good spot and then if you parallel compress it you've in essence increased their amplitude??
Interesting...
I always experienced it from the tracking and mixing side of things to be honest. On drum overheads, vocals, bass etc...I think it really depends on the compressor.
I've heard some sick mixes with the Manely VariMus in parallel on the 2 buss.
As far as mastering I've only personally heard it on the masters of my band's first album but I believe that one was the mastering edition, with the hipass sidechain?
Whenever I've tried to do fake masters, I always find better success with very very light parallel compression with a Fairchild emulation (1/2 db to 1 db of GR), like say 30 raw / 70 compressed and saturation for volume/heft. So far it translates pretty good but I still prefer a mastering engineer's results to mine.
I just do those fakies for my mix clientele who want to hear it loud.
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