compressing live drums

Posted on Jul 18, 2003 01:35 am
wipeout
Member Since: Jul 18, 2003

Hi!

I need advice/opinions on whether it is necessary to apply compression on all mics for drums or snare drum alone is enough? I used to connect all 6 mics of my drumkit to an 8-ch console. I was thinking of adding a compressor/limiter/gate equipment to my setup which mostly come in 2 or 4 channels. It will eat up all those inputs for the drums alone if I will be applying compression on all mics. Any help/advice would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

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jues
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Since: Dec 30, 2002

Jul 18, 2003 04:01 am

Compression on the snare will definatly assist you - it will make the signal far less suseptible to clipping. However, you may then also want to apply a stereo compressor to the entire drum mix to give it that punch it requires - but this is something that you may want to leave until mixdown.

jues.