Circling back and getting creative

So at this point when I'm listening to my drums in the chorus section, I feel…like they are getting a little bit lost.…And this is something that happens when you start mixing the drums first, and now…you've added the guitars and the vocals and you've kind of got a big sound and…you're kind of thinking,…the kick is not punching through,…the snare is not punching through as much as I want it to.…And so usually right around this time what I'm going to do is on my drum submix--…this changes with each mix, but I'm usually, on my drum submix, going to do…some kind of compression, generally parallel compression, so that I can inflate those…drums a bit so that they cut through in the bigger sections of the song.…

And I can do this one of two ways. I could actually duplicate my drums submix track and process that separately,…and then be able to automate that.…Or I can just add a compressor with a mix parameter. And because I want to be…able to automate it, I'm going to go ahead and create a new aux track.…