sb arms & legsDid sound for a lovely TOOL tribute out of #quebec tonight. They had their tones dialed in. It's a lot of fun to push the room with a band like that.
I do this thing for high energy rock bands where I'll not do much compression on the channels. Instead I have a buss for each instrument, and a corresponding control group (DiGiCo-speak for a DCA/VCA). The buss gets the compression and saturation, etc. I can then pull back the group while pushing the CG to get more compression, or bring up the group while knocking back the CG to open it back up.
This gives me a lot of instant control over the dynamics and volume to punch up the big important parts while maintaining overall headroom, resulting in a dynamic yet consistent mix.
