How to Compress a Drum Bus

Sometimes you want to bring out certain characteristics of a drummer's performance with compression. I love it when the compressor is triggered by the ad libs. And I'm not hyper compressing the bus to begin with. Like I'm doing a few DBs max. So do you do like a vox? I like that sound. All vox. Yeah, but like I don't typically do much on it. But there might be like a finally cue or something. yeah.

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