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He's right on that. You don't need to have a ton of gain to get a good signal. Use compression to bring stuff up to level when your ready in mixing. I typically have drum peaking at like -12, or 3 out of 5 bars on the 5 segment MOTU meters. I'm more worried about transitors peaking, like the yamaha subkick, which has a very hot level, and if you give the preamp any gain at all, the thing is too loud and peaks. That's more of my worry.
You can always give the drummer more drums in his ears. The problem could be that he can't hear enough of his drums. making it loud in his mix will make him play softer...in theory.
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