limiting kick/snare or 2bus in hiphop tracks?

[shangoe]

this is my first post and i like to thank you all for this great forum. i watch it a few month now and learned a lot.

what i want is to get less dynamic between KK/SNR and the rest of the sounds, without loosing the punch. right now i have no real limmiter (thinking to get a aphex dominator II)

my current setup:

mac g4 with logic 5.5
joemeek sc4 compressor ( to slow for that)
2 channel 9098 amek eq
symetrix 544 quad gate
dbx 160a
mackie 8bus
digi 001


i try to use the logic limiter, but didnt get anny good results. so is the dominator a solution for that (drums or 2bus)?

thank you

Did you try the Logic compressor?
The limiter might be killing your sound and that is why you found it to not work.

maybe try the comp with a slow attack and fast release. Don't solo..listen in the mix.

I would doubt the Aphex could do much better than your plugz.
Plus the latency incurred might suck.

Hope this helps.
I have no clue so take it as such.

David

[shangoe]

hmm... i tried the logic comp, but still no good results. i dont want to compress the drums, just cut the peaks a little bit to get the whole thing louder.

i use the mackie 8bus for summing with the 8 outs of my digi001 + 1 external synth. like channel 1-2 drums, 3-4 voice, and so on.... so latency is not the problem. in case i go back to the DAW with my drums i delay all the other tracks for 51 samples ( this is what i mesured out )

[TeReKeTe]

try multing the kick/snare tracks, and limiting the hell out of this 2nd version

[Lindell 2nd]

Parallel compression works well. Send your drum tracks to bus 1-2 on your Mackie desk. Insert the Joemeek and mix to flava....