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Originally Posted by Rick Sutton
Once you get comfortable with parallel compression you can start using eq on the parallel send or return to really help with certain problems. A parallel with a multiband compressor is also very useful at times.
A more involved parallel scheme is to take a source and spread it over several faders and comp/eq each independently for specific frequency ranges and combine at the board.
Careful...
once you start throwing EQ into the equation... THEN there can be phase problems... still no time delay, but eqs mess with your phase. if someone makes an analog eq that doesn't mess with the phase, i'll give them france.
Example:
4 multitrack returns bussed to group out A, as well as the main stereo buss. Group out A is now send to a comp. Comp return now brought back to a fader and mixed to the main stereo buss.
this is cool. this is sweet.
make sure that you patch everything right... and for henry ford's sake, don't buss the comp return to Group A. That kinda sucks... AAAHHAHAHAHAHA!!!
now, if you throw some eq onto the comp return, and mess with it... the phase of the comp return gets messed with. not 'technically' a good idea.
that can be a bad thing. it can be a good thing... hell play with it, if it sounds good, feck it... we're in ireland.