Reply To: ED RUSH AMA
EdRushHey Yung E! Hope you’re well. Its been a while.
I am using a drum buss less and less these days as I have built up a library of drum hits that have been processed multiple times and often sound best routed straight out to the master. Sometimes the individual hits might need a tiny bit of glue for which I might use a compressor just tickling the signal or add a camel phat with just a tiny bit of tube dist. I also own the slate VCC which can add some lovely character to the drums but I find I’m doing this less and less these days and Im getting louder results by having the main hits like kick and snare going straight to my master where I mainly use Ozone 7 to do a bit of limiting.
I am peaking around -0.4 RMS. As long as it not constantly going over 0 and it sounds ok then fuck it. I don’t think that is really that important though. As long as the track is well balanced and your mix sounds open and has depth there will always be gains on the mixer when DJing so we can trim it there.
Distortion wise I like trash 2 with the multi-band option you have so much control. I also like the old faithful Camel Phat which I use in every tune and there’s a free wavechanger from cableguys that came with Computer Music thats brilliant too.
I’m 100% in the box atm.
Good luck mate! Hopefully see u soon 🙂
Ed.