Quote Originally Posted by Basil Rush
If it's that real driving pumping techno sound you want, wack all the percussion through a single bus on your mixer or in your computer. Put a another compressor over the lot, use 10ms attack or so and adjust the release time and ratio for the right effect. Everything should duck under the kick.
hard knee or soft knee?

[/quote="Basil Rush"]
Make sure you aren't cluttering your mids. Selectively EQ (before the compressor) your percussion. Shelving filters at the bottom or a high pass filter are very handy here.[/quote]

if u eq b4 the compressor, isn't the compressor just going to bring out unwanted frequencies out such as sibilants n so forth, thus needing to eq again?