This sounds really good BTW! Is the only compression you have just on the overall drum bus, not the individual parts?
I used it on other stuff too. I used auto release and had the limiter "off" on every instance of Vcomp, but here is what I did...
And before anyone starts to bash about piracy... Eventho I did use Waves plugins, I actually have paid for
my licenses. You should too.
DRUMS
Kick:
Slate Trigger (after an hour of struggling with the original kick, I just 100% replaced it with AC kick with 7ms on the attack fader to tame the initial transient so that it wouldn't sound so heavy metal)
Datube (just for some character, ~45% drive)
Snare:
Rvox (2-4dB attenuation)
Slate Trigger (NRG rooms only, blended 30%)
Rbass (@122hz; the snare didn't have anything below 250hz, so I added some bottom with this)
IK T-racks Clipper (1-3dB attenuation)
EQ (100hz highpass, +5dB @*200hz, one surgical resonance cut at 434hz, +5dB hishelf @3khz )
Toms:
EQ (65hz highpass, 4 deep cuts at 200-750hz region to carve out mud)
Vcomp (6:1 ratio, 3-6dB attenuation)
OH and HH tracks:
1khz highpass
Room (really low in the mix)
5khz lowpass
Vcomp (6:1 ratio, 6-12dB attenuation)
Drum Group:
Vcomp (4:1 ratio, about 6-12dB attenuation)
The snare, toms and room were also sent to a plate reverb from Waves Rverb
BASS
Bass DI track:
Podfarm (Gate - Rock Classic aka "Ampeg SVT Classic": low drive, no low mids or high mids, only bass and treble, with 30% blended DI for taste - Compressor)
C4 (6dB attenuation on the below 120hz range, 3dB attenuation on other bands)
L1 (1-6dB limiting on all hits)
The other bass track that comes at the end of the song:
Cubase distortion (just for different character)
Bass group:
Vcomp (4:1 ratio, 3dB attenuation)
EQ (noticed that the low end was too much so I added a -5dB low shelf @180hz, +3dB @*115hz and -5dB at 290hz)
GUITARS
Individual tracks, except 6 tracks that didn't have anything:
Renessaince Axx (1-2dB attenuation on most tracks, 6dB on the two hi-gain rhythm tracks)
Guitar group:
Vcomp (2:1 ratio, 2-4dB attenuation)
EQ (lowshelf -6dB @ 250hz)
VOCALS
Individual tracks:
Nothing or Renessaince de-esser (5.5khz highband split, attenuating 10dB)
On one track there is the "telephone eq": 1khz highpass, 5khz lowpass and +3dB @ 4.5khz)
Vocal tracks had different amounts of sends (but only the three effects that I used on the whole mix; delay, reverb and flanger/chorus)
Vocal bus:
Vcomp (4:1 ratio + de-esser, 1-6dB attenuation depending on the part)
Renessaince De-esser (same 5.5khz highband split, attenuating 7dB)
When the whole vocal chain is soloed, the vocals don't have almost anything below 200-250hz
SENDS
amounts depending on the track, flanger is only on backing tracks, not on leads
Delay (vocals, guitar solo)
H-Delay: 1/2 delay with 60% feedback
Compressor: (3:1 ratio, attenuating 8dB, 1ms attack and 500ms release) The lead vocals are sent to here as sidechain so that the delay would duck when the lead vocals are singing so that the delay would not drown the vocals
Reverb (Snare, Toms, Room, Vocals, Delay, 1 guitar track)
Rverb: 2.2 second Plate1
Chorus (6 background vocaltracks)
MetaFlanger ("Chorus light" preset)
FX group bus:
EQ (100hz highpass, +4dB @ 450hz, -5dB highshelf @ 7khz)
MASTER BUS
C4 (just for general balance taming, none of the bands cuts more than 4dB on any band)
Vcomp (1.5:1 ratio, ~3dB attenuation)
PuigTEC EQP1A (really weird looking eq but sounds really musical, just did what I thought sounded good; boosted lows +3 @60hz, boosted highs +8 @12khz)
Linear Phase EQ (hishelf +3dB @5khz)
L2 (attenuating 0-3dB on most hits, 6dB on like maybe 3-4 hits in the whole song)
I mixed into the C4 + Vcomp + L2, but added the Pultech and high end EQ boost later
Thats it. It's a bit of a "radio mix" (guitars pretty low in the mix and vocals really loud), but if excluding the snare, bass and master bus, the inserts are literally almost empty. Total of 43 plugins on 64 tracks and not a single automation. But the material was really well recorded too tho.
edit:
yeah dude.
this is a gorgeous song/mix.
Thanks
Give the song a go yourself, Pedro did a good work on the recording. You can get the files here.
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/rate-my-mix-tone-threads/652838-new-year-gift-song-mixing.html