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Yes, that was with the input gain all the way down on the Octo Pre. I think it was specifically the overheads that were too loud. Also some drummers hit the drums so hard I just put limiters on all of them for safety.

Thanks Ray! \m/ That sounds like a good idea for a stereo mix! I tried compressing the individual signals one time and it boosted all the rest of the drumkit sounds into the track that I was trying to record. lol

I am doing the same thing. My interface doesn't have pads on every channel and sometimes the drums just peak too much, so I got a 500 rack and filled it with DBX 500A compressor/limiters and set the compression ratio to infinity to use them as limiters. This is working great because the Rupert...