Maximus has three compression bands (LOW, MID and HIGH), but I need only one band so I turn off the LOW and HIGH bands leaving only the MID band active.Īs you can see from the display, the MID compression band now covers the full frequency bandwidth so all the tweaks made to the MID band will be applied to the whole frequency spectrum. I reset the Maximus settings by loading the ‘Default’ preset (note that there’s also a preset in Maximus for NY compression, but I’ll set it up from the ground up – based on the preset – so you can see what’s happening “under the hood”). What I do first is I route the drum loop to a free mixer track and drop the Maximus to it’s effect slot. I’m using a simple drum loop as example audio here. With that said, in this tutorial I will show you how to easily apply parallel compression (or NY compression) to your audio using Maximus. the body or tail of a kick or snare) while preserving the transients (or attack phase or whatever they’re called) of the original signal underneath it. What’s so cool in this technique is that this way you can increase the volume level of the quieter parts of the signal (i.e. Parallel compression is a compression technique where a dry (non-compressed) signal is mixed with an over-compressed copy of the the same signal.

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