4 BEST PLUGINS for CRUSHING your DRUM BUS! 

What's your ultimate weapon for compressing drums?

Absolutely fantastic video squashing the schnozzle out of your drums!

Your raw drums sound pretty incredible! It sounds like a drum library.

Nice one! The Baby Audio one is awesome (all sounded good btw!)

Love to see Baby Audio getting some love in this context. PA is super fun.

I’m a big fan of the Waves Kramer Pie for this, lately have just been slamming a Waves CLA76 blue channel, after that a fab filter Saturn saturation plugin. Also your Drum tones are always top notch! Well, everything you do is 🤘🏼🤘🏼

I usually use SSL compressors, from waves or from Solid State Logic and to add saturation I use FabFilter's Saturn because it allows me to add or reduce saturation to specific frequencies, I never thought Devil Loc could be used that way too so I will try it for sure, you rock Kristian!

I use either TDR Molotok or mostly Analog Obsession FETISH (1176 based plugin) for Drum Bus compression For Saturation on Drums I use Gem Mod (Tube style saturator with a Dimension C style/Flange/chrous) and Audio Assault Head Crusher V1 Tape Saturator (V2 is not as Good, very Buggy, but V1 is brilliant and has a few different flavours, also the free version is brilliant on drum and master buses, I use it on Master bus) I use Klanghelm DC1A3 on Overheads/Ambient Mics (more DC1A3 = more smooth, controlled, not dirty at all) , Free Clip (Venn Audio) on snares, for extra punch

Well done and informative. I personally use two different compression at the same time, one for the drums group with some compressor that allows me to set the attack time, to let some transient in, and another super squashed in parallel.

Those are awesome. Mixwave, toontrack, perfect drums, GGD, and slate ssd5.5 kinda are done as far as processing which I love. GGD smash and grab, PA comps, and Waves SSL are awesome. Ya 1176 comps as well. SSL Native I love

“I hate mono”….. would be a fantastic bandname….. Thanks for the video Kristian…. You rock BIGTIME🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

I love this channel.

Another fun plug to try is the Supercharger from Native Instruments. Can get pretty extreme like the Devil-loc but with saturation instead of all-out distortion. Plus it's free.

Thumbs up for the parallel particles. Thanks for the tips.

I wish I could like this video a hundred times. My mind is blown by these plugins. So easy to create that result! I'm thinking I'll grab the last two... For me it's great to have those extreme options outside of a stock plugin, and those both have ridiculous bite... What do you think about applying the sub inside the waves plugin to kick drums if you need to add some more bottom end? Thanks for sharing this!

purchased talkbacklimiter to try on drums. found a new home wrecking my piano. cheers, lovin it

I really don't intend to ruin Kohle's business here, but Focusrite users have Parallel Aggressor for free in their interface bundle. I'm all in for Devil-Loc, and ever so often going berzerk with all-buttons-in with practically any 1176-style compressor on the room mics gets me there as well. I haven't tried the Korneff one yet, but it sure is tempting.

The UAD Empirical Labs Fatso emulation is absolutely my go-to these days!

I almost only use Distressor, SSL G Comp, and DBX, maybe because I've the hardware and I'm so familiar with the sounds.

I actually use the SSL Native Drumstrip (with that cool L-MIC-Compr.), the AMEK 9099 Channelstrip (amazing Compression Section) or even the SPL Vitalizer. A few weeks ago i shot the Nomad Drum Tools - its very nice and works with two parallel compressors. A bit similar to the Baby Audio.

Molotok (TDR) and FETish (Analog Obsession) are both full of character and free. These compressors changed the way I mix.

I love Camelcrusher, It’s years old and never changes but super useful. And you can really smash it to bits.

Doing my first mix of my own live drum playing today, this couldn't have come at a better time

Awesome! I just bought the Baby Audio plug in just based on this clip. I knew immediately. Thanks!

REAAAAAlly cool! Thanks Dad! 🖤

I use Parallel Aggressor very subtly on the 2-bus. Really cool plugin. Another good drum crush plugin is Loc-ness by United Plugins.

i have the SSL LMC on my SSL Six : ) instant Phil Collins magic : )

Pretty interesting, I'm still learning how to use compressors. Could you make a video like this but applied to bass guitar? do any of these compressors work for bass too? Keep the good work (and beer drinking) going!

"More nicer" and "Nicerer". I love it.

I guess I'm one of the rare people in the rock and metal world that knows about Baby Audio and the Parallel Aggressor. I love that plugin, it's one of my absolute favorites.

Softube harmonics: 5 analog flavors, comp, dirt, and tone controls, filters, butt simple Softube/Chandler germanium compressor: your boy Glenn did a video on it, it has a very specific flavor Eventide split EQ: not a comp, but separating and treating the bands separately does a lot of what i want from a drum comp

Great video as usual and always something new to learn. Big question though, will Waves have a sale on next week when I get paid?

I go through hardware now (WesAudio Dione) but before that I tried so many plugin compressors but kept coming back to Eventide's Omnipressor or Kush Audio's Silika. Of the two, I might favor Omnipressor slightly but it adds "analog" noise that you can't turn off & is just too loud for some mixes.

Ha, I actually own all of those aside from the Korneff one xD And yeah, I love BabyAudio Plugins (for the most part. Regularly use Parallel Aggressor (for Drums mostly), I Heart NY (for Snare in particular), Comeback Kid (one of my favorite Delays) and Spaced Out (for some larger than life Reverbs) ....and I always wish I found more use for Super VHS because I love it xD

Tan from Acustica Audio is really good. I don't know what it's based on, but it can get naaaaaaaaasssty! I think it's still free as well.

Hey bud just letting you know some of your links are messed up. Soundtoys links to Waves. Great vid!

“I hate mono” - with you all the way! Heavyocity Punish deserves a mention, though it’s really easy to overdo..

Really interesting plugins! Never mixed live drums until now. Think it's time to get some multitracks and start experimenting.

that new York style compression/parallel compression is the ticket

Hey often use the native instruments supercharger GT plugin. That thing goes pretty insane and is probably the most compressy plugin I have. I have had a few beers so can't put it into words but it is smacky as hell

that scheps one looks really cool. they should add a "FREQ" to the air kinda like the sub has.

This convinced me to grab the paralell aggressor, I'm always searching for more attack.

I like Focusrite Red 3 plugin, as well as Klanghelm MJUC

I've used the waves PuigChild as my parallell comp on drums for a long while! I just smash it and think it gives a lot of smack and attitude to my drums. Really wanna get that particles plugin. Feels like a really modern metal sound to me

I've been considering the Scheps plugin for a while. I wasn't sure until I saw this video. Sounds fantastic! Thoughts of it on vocals or mixbus?

All about that devil loc

Awesome video. How about a comparison between your hardware SSL style compressor and an SSL style plugin?

Awesome Kohle. Wow the talkback limiter from korneff sounded much different than the LMC+ from SSL Haven't been that parallel aggressor from baby audio, another one from baby audio for drum bus, i like the taip, tape saturation / compression. The compression really good for drums IMO

Awesome video man! Give the Plugin Alliance ACME Audio Opticom XLA-3 a shot. It's dirty as fuck!

Great video, thank you, Kristian. By the way, if you want to access the extended parameters of the Korneff Talkback Limiter via the graphical interface just click on the Korneff logo, and the hood will open up and give you access to all these nice pots and switches to tweak the settings. I love the graphical representation :-)

Danke vielmals :-). What finally is the thought behind compressing the drumbus instead of compressing the individual drums where you can dial in individually on kick, snare etc. The glue effect?

nice

If you click that korneff audio logo on top, you can find those distortion and LPF

When I want the Devil Loc sound but a bit more versatile, I’ve been reaching for Tone Empire’s Loc Ness lately!

Check Yala from Analog Obsession

I have the Devil Loc and have never used it on my drum bus -- why have I not done this? I use The Glue by Cytomic a lot on a lot of stuff and it works great as a drum bus compressor.

Looks like Soundtoys link is the same as to the Waves one ;)

DopeAF

I own the parallel particles and parallel aggressor and I love them. parallel particles is awesome for doing that final little tweak on the master bus, along with many other things as you just showed!!!

Check out Diablo by Cymatics! It's another plugin that's not well known in the metal world, but this one has a much more metal name

Kohle the nicererer! Ola taught you well I see :D

#1: I want a compressor that has the Kohlekeller logo on it 😢😢😢 Do you have merch, ToneLord? Like a hat or a hoody with your logo on it? I'd rock one of those every single day. I don't like T shirts with big logos all over the stomach. Maybe across the chest, but preferably a small logo over the left breast is what I really like. All black. I'd wear that. #2: Pro L-2 FOR THE WIN 🔥🔥🔥 #3: Never tried anything from Soundtoys. Justin Colletti from sonicscoop talks about them a lot, and I value everything he has to say about mixing/mastering almost as much as I value anything you have to say. I've also never tried "Baby Audio", but I agree, the name doesn't sound particularly metal. "HAIL SATAN! And now a word from our sponsors, BABY AUDIO!" Yyyyyyea, lol. #4: How do you feel about Transient Shapers, like the DS-10 from XLN Audio? I downloaded the free trial for it but I did it way too early on in my re-entry to Audio Production and didn't really understand how to get the most out of it. Where do they (transient shapers) fit into all this? Anyway, great video as always! I will look into Soundtoys and "Baby" Audio (looooool)

" I hate mono" . Curious what you mean by that? I personally hate everything to be stereo. Once everything is stereo in a mix, unlike our real ears, we start to lose some separation on some elements, no? Like guitars in mono panned with a mono reverb or delay to where they are in the stereo field can be cool, imho of course

tru jst gain reduction on paralelle drum bus it can be really angry but work sometimes

more better = more more better'er

'DrumSlam' by AirWindows is a great free plug-in.

Korneff is great but somehow kills hi-end. Use it with careful. I think best way to use korneff is for par-comp of low-mids and mids fr.

How the hell do I compress the shit out of my kick without the snare washing through? Awesome video as usual!

Squash

Anybody use Limiter No. 6? I use it on almost everything. Besides, it's free.

Quadrafuzz

i feel more smarterer already.

bekommt man mit einem üblichen Kompressor und Transient Shaper besser hin. Gibt zwar auch ganz andere Möglichkeiten, Drums zu pushen, da aber ständig von mir Ideen geklaut und von Magazinen wie bekannte "Experten" als eigene Neuerungen ausgegeben werden, behalte ich diese Tricks lieber für mich und wende diese im geheimen an.

Loc-ness give me all the dirt i need

Did ya mean to leave the zebras on your camera on? ;)

dude the SSL Native LMC compressor is fucking barbaric

too much mics ;-)

Compressed drums sound fake. I miss the sound of real drums. Stop overproducing everything, people.