Adding Punch & Attack to Your Snare with Compression

This is like a master-class in drum compression and all for free. You are a champ for doing what you do!

Some of the best explanations on the web. Keep up the very fine work. Thanks. 🙌🏻

So... mix your drums, give it some silly name and save it.
Now you have a new Superior Drummer 3 expansion for free ;)
Add some reverb and call it Arena or Royal Albert Hall :P

how slow is a slow atack?

Amazing tutorial! So generous!

Excelente video, 👌 muchas gracias por compartir

Why is a sampled snare better than the one recorded on a live kit? No bleed?

Hey thanks for everything as always.

I noticed that you only parallel comp the kit and not snare, kick, and kit.

Or do you have instances where you choose to parallel snare and or kick and or kit.

If we are using a compressor with a knee setting, what knee settings are we looking at for the snare top, snare bottom, and the parallel compressor?

Did you use two compressors on the snare drum

Just the first compression tip is pure gold. Thanks Hardcore Music Studio!

Great video excellent tips I have all those plugins also which is a plus👍👍

would you say to keep all drums in one bus? ive seen people who do like EDM and other electronic music so have the snare on their own bus and the kick on their own bus, then the rest of the drum/ percussive instruments being mixed under a drum bus

so could this be used on a mixer like qu 32 and playing live?

What are the numbers though, in milliseconds? I mean, I’ll try to improve my ear, but “slow” and “fast” are a bit vague for my noob brain.

I wouldmlike to get the cheat sheet, but when i fill in the form nothing shows up in my mail. Also not in spam or whatever

Well done mate!informative and interesting

I think that snare sound sucks. That drummer needs to learn how to tune his drums for a recording session. It's not the same as for a live performance. And I hate rimshots on a recording. They end up sounding like a slapstick.

For a while i struggled to hear compression, but then I realized it's more like you FEEL it. So instead of trying to "hear" it, I started trying to "feel" it (granted you FEEL it between your ears), and it's pretty easy to "hear" it now!

I couldn't get the mix cheatsheet to download.....can you help me with this please ?

brilliant breakdown, thanks!

oohh yeahh!! it's perfect snare time!

Honestly. Stumbling on this guy's channel has greatly improved my mixing. He has no bs approach to mixing which is why I really dig his videos

what is this band?

Great explanation. Thank you!

Thank you, really.

Hey thanks, great tip on the fast attack on the bottom head, I will try your approach, it's interesting! Just wondering why you left the phase on both heads the same though?

Thank you.

The segment when you use the SSL on the snare is actually the kick. Correct me if I'm wrong.

You got some better tutorials than others. Gained yourself another subscriber.

Brilliant explanation, thank you!

Hold shift while dialing in the input on the Distressor and the output volume accommodates so you're not adding volume just compression.

Just found this page and wow dude, the info you provide is amazing! Ready to support big time. Do you have any vids/resources on making drum over video/mixes.

What was the actual snare recorded?

Once u find the right transient level, can u use EQ to get rid of unpleasant overtones?

Srsly, you have some of the best mixing content on yt. Thanks for all the Effort!

This helped a lot! Thank you so much for this video!

Thank you! Really helped me out with metalcore drums!

book marking this . thanks

How is there no bleed on that bottom snr mic?!

Hold shift while adjusting the input knob in VMR :)

I jump on trying to mix my music more in depth lately and found your channel VERY useful and in a great instructive way! Thanks a lot!

hey! this was helpful! helped me in my drum cover.. check it out!

Do you use gate and compressor at same time?

THIS is a reallllly great video_! thanks for posting it :)

Love drums

That is very helpful thank you.

Great tutorial, simply explained and effective !