Compression Questions

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I have recently purchased recording gear...and I have some questions...
I have a 24 ch board 3 ADATS and various outboard gear.

My question is this. I have heard alot of ppl say that they only used one compressor in the studio. I know that when we recorded the engineer used compression on all the tracks. Does this mean to record 8 tracks of drums I have to buy 4 comps? Is there another way to do this without buying all thoses dang comps? because after the drums I will only use one at a time to track.

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You could buss your whole mix left and right in stereo and feed that through the stereo compressor out your main mix into the recorder.

If you have to have eight separate tracks of drums I don't see any way around the one compressor problem.
 
Sennheiser is right on. The only other option is you can run recorded tracks through the compressor and bounce them to a new track. It is tedious but you can then compress individual tracks.
 
try getting the drummer to limit his / her dynamics and play consistant .this means basicly hit as hard as possible . this means you can do a stereo mix and compress that.I know about their "art" and all that crap but if their pro thay will rise to the ocasion.I drum and have recorded like this to great effect.Not everyones cup of tea but can save on the cost of a rack full of avalons that you only use so often.
 
as a drummer I hate the "hit them as loud as you can" mentality of many engineers. . .and guitarists :)

causes all sorts of awful snare bleed into overheads in my opinion. . .

I have them hit it as hard as they can during sound check to avoid peaks and then play dynamicly. If it clips on a snare hit everyonce in a while I either replace it with a different one in editing or mute the .003 seconds that the clip lasts. . . or ignore it. how can you hear a clip in a thing that makes a pop anyway? :)

. . . if they play dynamically and the snare is way too soft even for them then its a reality check as thats what happens in performance.

I once had an engineer with 15 year experience to tell me to play as hard as I can. . . I asked what I was supposed to do with my ghosting. . ."whats ghosting?" was his reply. . .

(ghosting is a single stick roll used in replacement of a snare hit. . .basically hit the snare normally but let the stick bounce fast like in a roll)

He then actually told me to not do it!!


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your right

That was just my reply to how to get around lack of compressors.For my money I like the idea of a good sounding kit recorded with 2 room mics and just letting the drummer go.I my self have drummed for 20 years and have been recording drums for that amount of time(OH GOD I HOPE THOSE FIRST TAPES ARE BURNING IN HELL).Most of the stuff I play is hard rock with a limited dynamic range so playing hard is what I do. Never realy had a problem with bleed but whats a bit of bleed in a wall of noise.I guess its just what rings your bells.Oh I use the biggest stix I can get cause they last longer:)
 
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