Live Drums Parallel Compression Tutorial

Oct 29, 2015 | 40,258 Views

Watch how FOH engineer Zito (OneRepublic, Backstreet Boys, Babyface) gets a bigger drum sound in his live mixes using the Waves API 2500 compressor plugin.

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