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Old 6th December 2009   #14
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Originally Posted by masteringhouse View Post
...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...
I can see the beauty of this concept.
But doesn't it result in higher peak add up, leaving more 'ugly' work for the digital limiter instead?
Whereas parallel comp is more like 'filling up the gaps' with less peak build up?
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