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Compressing the drums

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Compressing the drums

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In order for the rhythm section to sound powerful, the drums and bass have to have an even level. Sometimes the drummer doesn't hit every beat of the kick and the snare with the same intensity, which makes the pulse of the song erratic. Sometimes the tom fills have different volumes across the drums. In this video I am going to show you how to use compression on the drums to make them punchy and steady in the mix. So let's listen to the mix without any compression at all. (music playing) We hear a little bit of leakage there in the background, but that's okay. The first thing we are going to do is go to the snare drum and have a listen. There are two snare drums. There is a top and bottom. We only want one. Take notice, since they are in a group, if we solo one, both of them solo up, and the way to get around that is to hit Ctrl and just solo whatever channel that you want the solo and just that one will solo up. So now let's listen to the snare top by itself. (music playing) I…

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