Right so I've got my snare track and its pretty spikey already, but after some very necessary EQ (not very good mic'ing and very boomy), I need some compression to put the smack back in it. Except now I've got a mix with the snare poking out and I need about 10dB of clipping and limiting to bring the level reasonably up, and then the snare's smack is gone again.
What can I do? :/
What can I do? :/