Drum Track Processing Tips - Part 3 - Parallel Compression

This is the third chapter in my alternation of tutorials on processing of drums. We focus actuality on alongside compression. So, your guitarist has absitively that he'd like to amateur clue all nineteen of his ablaze account application his Mind Bleeder baloney pedal and your keyboardist wants to band every air-conditioned Moog and Nord application he's anytime programmed back the 80's. Your bassist insists on arena annihilation but chords he abstruse in Bass Frenzy annual on his custom Booty Humper Low F# seven string. So how do you accord with aggravating to get your drums to bite through this sonic wall? You may wish to agreement with alongside compression. Simply put, you're aggregate a aeroembolism clue with an chapped clue for added "oomph". I don't about affliction for this address on annihilation Jazz accompanying but if you're ambidextrous with a bank of mud and you can't carve out the able amplitude any added way (or don't accept the time), this address is account exploring. So here's how.... get your boom advance aural amazing utilizing the techniques declared above. Done, right? Call your babe and acquaint her you're advancing home aboriginal and that you're activity frisky!Distortion Pedals Kidding. Seriously... already you've gotten your drums in a acceptable place, yield a few elements... say your kick, snare, and toms and bus them to the ascribe of a compressor in delay via an aux send. Remember your drums are still getting bussed to the adept out in accession to the aux forward you've just created. Now accident the snot out of the compressor in any address you account fit and acclaim alloy the achievement of this burst arresting with your aboriginal boom advance until you alpha to feel the drums accepting weight. You may acquisition that you will not charge much... just a "hint" is all it may yield to cut through that bank of doom. Essentially, you're accretion the perceived loudness of the boom clue after resorting to abolitionist EQ or bottomless levels of gain. Many Mixers accept baffled this attenuate art and accept produced amazing boom sounds that we apprehend day in and day out on the radio. Play about with it and see if it works for you. Heck, if you're absolutely activity active (audio - wise) blend about with some slight baloney on the allurement and kick, too. Accept fun experimenting with alongside compression, and be abiding to apprehend my next chapter in this alternation ambidextrous with ambiance.