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Get the impact you want from your drums and unlock the secret to shaping the tone of your drums with compression. Get your headphones out! You'll need them to hear the differences.

Getting great drum sounds is one of the most satisfying feelings when running live sound at church. When the crack of the snare and the punch of the kick drum make people move during worship, you know you've done something right. And with this tip on compressing overheads, you'll get more control over your levels and more sustain out of your cymbals.

Mastering the attack and release is essential to learn how to compress live drums. Drum compression shapes the tone in a way that EQing drums can't, since it affects the shape of the transient. If you're trying to learn how to mix live drums, but whenever you push up your fader, and the drums don't sound like your favorite record, compression may be one of the keys to helping you when mixing drums.

These drums are from the song "You Satisfy My Soul' by Laura Hackett Park. David Whitworth is the drummer, but if you're a fan of his signature snare sound, this is before he got that snare.



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