CPR1 Compressor

...now I have kick, snare, and hats coming out of the main out, into a mixer channel with a Diamond CPR1 compressor on insert. Sounds great, super tight and punchy.

I process my kick separately, along with the clap, just for level sakes. Everything else goes through the mono output and I put a low cut to clean it up and help it stay more separated from the kick, which I put a compressor on and an EQ bump, around 60hz. I put...

...drums to both. On one stereo pair, I have a RNLA limiter, and on the other pair, a diamond CPR1 compressor and another effect that rotates (Fairfield "accountant" compressor ATM). This lets me put light stereo limiting on the drums, with a harder compression down the middle (plus drive or other fx). For...