I see, thanks Sharmaji. So when using a compressor on a drum bus its more for gentle character of the compressor rather than loudness yeah? I found a great vst called dynamic range meter (Brainworx) which will tell you the dynamic range of your busses/ master etc, but am unsure what kind of range to...

Epic thread just read it all! Got a question that I don't think as been covered... Lets say I follow the good guidelines set down in this thread regarding Drum bus peaks around -9ish with bass roughly a couple of db below.... My question is what are sensible rms levels for these busses? It seems qui...