Drum Bus

[BLUElightCory]

BTW what do you guys think is the most analog sounding compressor. Waves SSL, Softube, Sonnox or what? Reason i ask is, some people say nothing sounds close to analog compression. I can´t judge, don´t own analog gear.

The Kush UBK-1 has the most analog-sounding compression I've heard yet in a plug (outside of a few of the UAD plugs). It doesn't offer a lot of control over the compression parameters though.

 

[RedDog]

Satson channel, into Satson buss, dbx 266xl overeasy and auto setting.

 

[JonWormwood]

Bombardier or major tom

 

[electricred]

How are you guys bussing drums? I always thought drums should be individually panned based on their placement in the kit, or however the engineer finds useful. I bus my overheads together, but are you guys bussing everything down to stereo? i.e. stereo snare, kick, etc?

 

[electricred]

But when that's done, the original track is routed to the aux channel, which has stereo control on the aux fader. The original pan control fades away, so if you bus everything down to an aux, you wouldn't be able to individually pan the drums. Or am I missing a step here?

 

[Trevoire520]

I normally have:
Drum Bus (full kit, no processing added on this bus)
Parallel Compression Bus (shells are sent to this post fade, following the main pan. This bus is smashed with an 1176)
Drum Reverb Bus (shells are sent to this post fade, following the main pan, high pass, reverb and then compression)

Really should mess with doing some some processing on the Drum Bus...

 

[XxSicRokerxX]

Its usually sent to a Track FX with slight Reverb and Softube Fet 1176 Comp. On the bus itself I probably have the Glue. Lately I've been experimenting and loading URS Strip Pro, It has inputs stages that are supposed to emulate the infamous SSL 4000 console and a few neve consoles. Im still not sure how I'm liking it.

 

[eken]

I've been using the uad fatso sr. lately. The warmth controll can really help keeping the highs under controll.

 

[electricred]

Well just because the STEREO aux channel has a balance pot it doesn't mean that you can't pan stuff before you send it there. If you pan your left overhead mic 100% to the left it will only arrive on the left channel of the stereo signal running through the fader.
Depending on your daw - if you now turn the balance pot on the aux channel to the right, the signal will get quieter (if there was signal on the right channel it would now get louder). With protools you even have 2 pan controls, 1 pot for each channel.

EDIT: The pan control should only "fade away" when sending the signal straight into another channel and not going through a bus on the way (except in cubase, where you only have the group channels). I don't know which DAW you are using, but here is a guide for doing this in Pro Tools: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFU0WV77udI

I use Pro Tools 10. Thanks a ton!

 

[ArthurD]

SSL

 

[Tommy Evans]

+1 on bombadier. Been using that religiously lately

 

[slaytah]

But when that's done, the original track is routed to the aux channel, which has stereo control on the aux fader. The original pan control fades away, so if you bus everything down to an aux, you wouldn't be able to individually pan the drums. Or am I missing a step here?

I was having this problem in Cubase 5! What I've started to do now is set up another stereo out bus, and route all of my drum channels to there. Everything else (instruments, vocals, synth) I route to a separate stereo out.

In my Drum Bus I use: Steinberg Multiband Compressor, PSP Mixsaturator 2, and an 1176 Compressor plugin. Then I put a Highpass Filter at 30 Hz.