On 11/08/2011 02:24 PM, Julien Claassen wrote: Be careful using a gate on a drum. It will most likely give results other than what you want, as it will actually end up softening the attack due to the attack time of the gate itself. If you speed up the gate's attack time to get more of the drum's initial beater attack, you usually end up with a "click" caused by the gate opening too fast. By softening the attack, a gated drum will actually emphasize the drum's tone. As for EQ, I'm listening over my laptop's speakers, so can't really tell, but I'd try scooping 180-350Hz, a narrower scoop at around 1.5KHz, and a boost at 35-45Hz (if you can hear that on your monitor system. A compressor can be hit or miss on a drum. Try about a 3ms attack time, and don't get carried away with compression ratio. See what happens. -- --- My website is down. I had a motherboard failure on that computer!! (ugh) http://lateralforce.no-ip.org My blog, with commentary on a variety of things, including audio, mixing, equipment, etc, is at: http://audioandmore.wordpress.com Staat heißt das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer. Kalt lügt es auch; und diese Lüge kriecht aus seinem Munde: 'Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.' - [Friedrich Nietzsche]