sometimes Before somtimes after, somtimes both.

Say for example... a kick drum...I would high pass the kick so there-for I want to do this pre compression so that the compresser is not reacting to the lower freqs(as it would if I compressed before the high pass)
Then I would usualy Eq again(somtimes I will compress again with diff compresser)


Whatever sounds best is the answer realy:)