drum compressor?

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Aquanaut

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hi, can anyone recommend a good compressor for running through my fx send on my mixer (1402vlz pro) for my kick and snare? for under $500, or around there? or something less so i can have a seperate compressor on each. i think that's what i need to make my drums more punchy.

thanks>>>michael
 
FMR Audio's RNC.... hands-down.........

BTW, compressors are not (typically) connected thru the FX sends, they are wired in-line.

Bruce Valeriani
Blue Bear Sound
 
alright...thanks

thanks...i wasn't sure about going through the fx send either. i'm still learning how to use my mixer....and it is so AWESOME. i wish i'd had one years ago! haha. anyways...would i have better luck going with one good compressor?....and if so, use it on kick or snare?...or with a dual channel compressor?....one for kick and one for snare

thanks>>>michael
 
You would need to compress each one (kick and snare) separately - you would also need 2 RNCs if you go that route...

Bruce
 
do the toms need compression too?? or can they just be left alone to the eq? the vnc seems like a great buy, and i'm going to look into it deeply. anyone else know about them?

thanks>>>michael
 
Cross post alert.......


Please don't post the same question in 2 different forums.......

Thx.....

Sabith
 
I have learned that RNC is the way to go for $200. Can't beat it. I haven't heard it yet, but every body raves about this thing. It must be amazing.

http://www.fmcaudio.com
 
Okay bvaleria, I guess your much quicker than me?

Can I bother you once more to answer the new question in the RACK section.
 
AQUANAUT, I don't think you have to compress the toms. I never heard people compressing the toms. Mostly I hear people compressing the snare.

I might be wrong; seek professional opinion.
 
Here's my opinion: The kick and snare are heard so often in the song and so promonant in the mix (usually) that the average listener will catch on to volume changes, so they are usually compressed. Toms aren't in every measure, so I think with a competant drummer, you don't need to compress the toms. No reason why you can't though. (With an excellent and consistand drummer, sometimes you don't have to compress anyting. It's been done before.
 
Try a good stereo comp set fairly open on close-mic'ed instruments (kick, snare) using it to ensure that you have balanced amounts of both the attack and body of the drum, and then and a RNC on both sides of overheads or room mics. When tracking, I tend to use comps as a "soft" limiter.
Also if needed, try daisy chaining an RNC - output of one side into the other - for some pretty radical tone mangling on a sidechain.
 
Hmmmmmm....a neccessary evil at best. Whilst I do have to use them occasionally, they are not exactly on my "A call" list. They are servicable, but far from transparent. If there are a rack of them on a mix the sound compounds and becomes noticable.
 
haha, thought so:-)

i got booked to go and mix for a band as a producer at another studio. When i go producing elsewhere, i take my own rack with like all my lexicon/eventide etc gear in it and one with my compressors. i totally left the compressor rack behind at my own studio. anyway, i got to the studio i was meant to be mixing in, one whole 8u rack case is FULL of 3630's. i thought, arghh!! couldn't go back and get my compressor rack, so i had to mix a whole session on 3630's. ive never done that before, thats why i asked what you thought about them. cus the mix totally sucked and i could straight away tell it was the 3630's. ive got quite a few of them in my place, but cus i use them vary rarely, you dont kinda notice how awful they can sound!

it kinda seemed a real shame cus we were mixing through a really nice audient 72channel desk with all the valve pre's and that, and then to have to use those damn compressors really made the mix sound bad. they're really noisy aswell aren't they?!
 
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