Mastering Drums?

[andisblue]

I was wondering what kind of things you do to the drum tracks to 'master them', and what programs you might use to add those effects. I'd be using either the module line out or DFHS.

[Ericdrumz]

depends on your ears and wallet ?
if you search here there's a lot of free stuff too..
reverbs , have to try some..
some reverb, bright/dark hall or some plate
but just 10-20% wet..and a little EQ.
don't know about compression..

[doulos_21]

you don't master drums you master the whole song. Mastering is an art form best left to professionals, but if you want to practice with demos and stuff the best thing I can tell you is good luck. You will need a multi band compressor at least 4 bands a good quality parametric stereo equalizer and a lot of time tweaking. Most equalization done in mastering is less then .7 db gain changes and your average person can only tell volume changes of 3 db you have to know what your speakers sound like in your room if your not going to use dampening and other acoustics which again takes a lot of time and you must listen to just about every music cd out there on your speakers in your room at the same volume level. I recomend getting a db meter and setting it in at ear level in your chair center to your speakers and playing a commercial cd setting it to 85 db max on the meter remeber this setting on your mixer amplifer whatever and mark it. It is what you will master your mixes to from now on. now don't let your play back volulme pass 85 db reduce the "final" stereo mix to -3 db on the uv meters and keep working the eq and compression till you reach 85 db or close to it then your mix will be similar to volume as a commercial cd this is poor mans mastering here but it works for demos. and here is a quote from a mastrering engineer "if you can hear the compression you have used to much"