I am in the midst of recording a CD full of ethnic drums ("Chakra Breathing"). In certain passages I would like to reach, poweful, punchy, breath taking sound, with many drums and percussions participate (mostly recorded one by one in playback layers). I wonder whether during mixing it would be better to treat each drum separately (with compression, "powering", EQ, etc.) or to treat just the whole plain drum submix.
The drums are djembe, darbooka, conga, various ethnic drums and percussions.
Which compressor etc. would be the best to use for such a purpose ? (I have many plugins plus Millennia Origins).
So far I like Voxengo Analogue Flux quite a lot.
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