Parish Audio's new plugin drops the fixed crossover points of a multiband compressor, giving each of up to 10 bands its own frequency, width and sidechain detection.
Parametric Compressor drops the fixed crossover bands of a normal multiband compressor and lets you place a compressor anywhere in the frequency spectrum instead. Rather than splitting the signal into set adjacent bands, each compressor gets its own frequency and width, and bands can overlap as freely as you like.
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Key features
- Up to 10 compressor bands placed freely across the spectrum, with no fixed crossover points
- Independent Frequency and Width controls that set where each band compresses, rather than boosting or cutting like an EQ
- Full Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release and Makeup controls on every band
- Bands that range from narrow and surgical to full-width broadband compression, with overlapping bands able to run different settings
- Per-band detector fed by the main input, an external sidechain or both
- Detection limited to the band’s own frequency range or opened out to the full spectrum
- Interactive spectrum display for creating, selecting, moving and resizing bands
- Input and processed spectra shown together, with gain reduction and detector info for the selected band
- Windows VST3 and macOS VST3 and AU
Up to 10 bands can run at once, each with the usual Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release and Makeup controls plus Frequency and Width. Those last two set where the band compresses rather than boosting or cutting like an EQ, so it stays compression throughout, just focused on the part of the spectrum you’ve chosen. A band can be narrow and surgical, wider, or opened to full width for normal broadband compression. Since nothing is locked to fixed crossovers, two bands can cover the same range while running completely different settings.
Every band also has its own detector. It can listen to the main input, an external sidechain or both, and react to just the band’s frequency range or the full spectrum, so you decide both where the compression happens and what triggers it. One band might control the low end of a drum bus while another handles the upper mids, or a sidechain can compress a single frequency range so a competing sound gets room without ducking the whole signal.
It all runs on an interactive spectrum display, where bands are created, moved and resized directly. The input and processed spectra are shown together, with gain reduction and detector info for whichever band you’re working on.
Parametric Compressor is out now for Windows in VST3 and for macOS in VST3 and AU. Check it out here.
