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**Jules** · 9th May 2008, 11:42 AM

As I usually feed all the drums into a parallel drum bus compression set up.. I found that compressing overheads was restricting my dynamic control at mixdown time.

But at the same time I found listening to uncompressed drums all day on a project pretty dreary, so I hit upon the solution - to monitor my drums, right from the tracking stage, through a compressor plug in..

This method gives that 'classy' rock band cymbal sustain on monitor mixes from day one.. and still leaves the final decisions on dynamic control - totally open at mixdown stage.. (and totally open for another person to mix it)

I used to do this before I was using a DAW on 2" tape sessions I would set up an SSL bus compressor just for the drums and monitor the drums through that.

9th May 2008, 11:42 AM	#17
Jules Gearslutz.com admin Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: London, UK Posts: 10,830	For rock music As I usually feed all the drums into a parallel drum bus compression set up.. I found that compressing overheads was restricting my dynamic control at mixdown time. But at the same time I found listening to uncompressed drums all day on a project pretty dreary, so I hit upon the solution - to monitor my drums, right from the tracking stage, through a compressor plug in.. This method gives that 'classy' rock band cymbal sustain on monitor mixes from day one.. and still leaves the final decisions on dynamic control - totally open at mixdown stage.. (and totally open for another person to mix it) I used to do this before I was using a DAW on 2" tape sessions I would set up an SSL bus compressor just for the drums and monitor the drums through that. __________________ Jules " After Dino and I modded my amp, every time i hit a low B, it sounds like the members of Hierarchical Punish are in my basement, beating the members of Civilization Hatred to death with amplified, unbridled metal brutality." - Rip Glitter