Parallel vocal processing

1:03:10 Now Gordon’s made several mix improvements and thickened out the drums and guitars, the vocal is a little lost in the mix. He sets about fixing this with parallel processing: “I’ve got another track of the vocal – I’ve duplicated the audio region. I’ve got the same two plugins [the two compressors from earlier, the LA-2A and 1176], but I’m hitting them a bit harder for a much more compressed vocal sound that I’m bringing in in parallel.” After A/B-ing against the demo mix again, Gordon evaluates. “Even though I’ve added four compressors, the ones we’re listening to the most aren’t doing very much, so I think our vocal sounds relatively nice and open.”