thanks man. well for drums i use superior and send the kick and snare to their own channels and replace them with my own samples using drumagog. for guitar i use an emulator called Overloud TH1, with light compression, and I actually add a mastering plugin to the guitars to give them some power. it's called T Racks 3, and i use the preset called FM Broadcast with the clipper's input gain on 0db (it will be on 2.8db by default). i export it all, then master the entire mix in T Racks 3 using my own preset. glad you like it man