Create a simple drum sequence and use the mixer to set the volume levels between the drums in balance: Pick a set of drum samples – kick drum, snare, closed hihat and open hihat – and drop them to the step sequencer sampler channels and assign each drum sample to an empty mixer track. This tutorial will show you how to set up parallel compression (also known as New York compression) in FL Studio. This is a great trick to make your drums sound huge. Both signals – compressed and non-compressed – are then sent to the master out. This technique is particulary useful with drum compression, as with it you can apply heavy compression to the duplicated drums while retaining the original dynamics of the non-processed version.
Parallel processing is a mixing technique where you duplicate an audio track, add processing (such as compression) to the duplicated audio track, leaving the original signal non-processed (dry), mix them together and send them to the master out.
