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Old 22nd December 2004   #20
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Originally posted by GRiFF
I can't recall if engineers like to compress and gate drums during recording, my common sense says this is probably a bad idea...maybe a small amount of compression on the kick and snare? 2:1 / 3:1?
i wouldn't gate anything...maybe very small amounts of compression if you must. i prefer to do all that during mixing but sometimes it's neccesary during tracking too.
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