Transient Designers and Compressors > Drums

[Fox Mulder]

1. Transient designer before compressor.
2. Compressor before transient designer.
3. Only compressors.
4. Only transient designers.
5. Do whatever-the-f***'s necessary to get it sounding good.

I go for 5.

Which of the above do you guys go with? Please elaborate your reasons as technically as possible. No.5 is pretty much self-explanatory so I'll pass Cheers!

Edit: Typo.

 

[ahjteam]

6

 

[Seth Munson]

I'm still learning how to get the transient designers working how I want them to.
but once I get it how I like it seems pretty promising.

sorry cant help with which and where yet

 

[punkrockacademyfightsong]

live I often run them parallel:

1 on group 1 for Kick
2 on group 2 for snare
3 + 4 on group 3 + 4 (stereo linked) for toms

comp on group 5 + 6 for parallel compression.

I still have a comp on the snare top to level the snare out a bit and gates on kick, snare bottom and toms


In the studio I often use them first in the chain:
transient designer -> comp -> EQ -> (clipper for snare)

 

[BrettT]

I typically try to get as much as I can out of transient designer before adding compression.

 

[Sinister Mephisto]

I try it both 1-2, which I suppose is 5. Some snare's sound better one way some the other. At least imo.

 

[Fox Mulder]

6

What might that be? Or do you mean no.3?

I try it both 1-2, which I suppose is 5. Some snare's sound better one way some the other. At least imo.

This. I don't know about you man but to me super high-pitched snares (like piccolos) can be a bitch to get right with TDs. I usually just stick to compression there.

 

[pipaguapique]

^ he was just being a rebel...

 

[Jarkko Mattheiszen]

5. It totally depends on the situation for me. A transient designer is usually the last resort for me, so most of the times it ends up last on the chain (or at least before the limiter), but it varies.

^ he was just being a rebel...

Or trying to be funny. Us Finns are not very good at that.

 

[ahjteam]

6. something else

 

[Fox Mulder]

6. something else

Or trying to be funny. Us Finns are not very good at that.

Ah, tell me about it