[Methlab]

I am not sure if this is a common practice, but I have been experimenting with transient design on mults.

I copy the kick and snare tracks and put a TDesigner on each channel. For the first one, I suck out the attack and just leave the reverb of the drum in the channel.

For the second, I keep the attack and the body with no reverb. I then send them both to a Kick and Snare bus where I Compress them a bit and EQ. I just started this so of course it always sounds good when you first do something new. I was wondering if you guys do stuff like this..the goal here for me is to get a nice drum sound that punches, yet still sounds roomy and natural. I am not into the modern rock sampled sound, and more into the indie rock sound that punches in a mix more naturally (no huge mesa boogies to cut through..etc).

After this, I do parallel compress and distort, then send the entire kit to a main bus where I compress a little more to taste.

I am wondering how a lot of the mixers working on indie rock are getting their drum sounds so I am trying as many different techniques as I can. I'd love to hear yours, especially if you are into bands like Grizzly Bear, Royal Bangs, Surfer Blood, Twin Tigers...etc..