Is there a plugin that does this?

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Is there a plug in that does something similar to what is described in this article?

He took the vocal and split the signal so that it when to 2 console channels. Before the vocal signal went to the second channel, it went through a compressor. Now he had two channels of the vocal - one compressed and one uncompressed. On the uncompressed vocal he added very little with the equalizer and he added the reverb. On the compressed channel, he compressed the h**l out of it and added a ton of high-frequency equalization. What he would do is bring up the "natural" channel to full level to get the basic natural sound on the vocal. On the other compressed and equalized channel, he brought this up just enough to add excitement and presence to the vocal sound.

This similar to the parallel compression used in the so called New York compression trick often heard on drums and guitars. I do this now by just duplicating the track and blending the 2 together. If there was a plug-in that did something similar, I could free up a voice each time I apply it.