90% of all musicans (drummers included) have no clue about the physics of sound. Drummers need to understand this concept the most because there dynamic rages is by far the greatest of any acoustic instrument. I worked with a drummer who conplained every time we recorded that his drums were too low in the mix. He would play very quiet up until a point then he would start wailing as loud as he could for just a few hits then back down to the pp dynamic. The most likely explination for this is that he used 25 db earplugs to play jazz! sometimes he would use a 15db in one ear and a 25 in the other! I told him his drums were low because his range was too great and he was playing to loud then too quiet. He then flipped the senario on me claiming that it was my engineering. At this point, i busted out the compression, set it to infinity to one and compressed the living hell out of the signal. "happy now" i said, "go back to school!"
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