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Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Sun May 03, 2015 10:58 am

D16 Decimort Bit Crusher

Character EQ

Amp Sim

meloco_go · Post by **meloco_go** » Sun May 03, 2015 11:36 am

IMO you're looking the wrong way if you want to get the "glue" you're talking about from plugins.
If you want cohesive drum sound, look at the way you record drums and treat them in the mix.
Firstly, don't try to excessively gate and clean things up. Secondly, use less mics and rely more on room/OHs (you can try the so-called "Glynn Johns" technique). And pay attention to the drum sound itself -- tuning, dampening etc.

d-s-m · Post by **d-s-m** » Sun May 03, 2015 12:42 pm

Satson Sonimus

electro · Post by **electro** » Sun May 03, 2015 2:06 pm

UAD Moogerfooger MF-101

hermbot · Post by **hermbot** » Sun May 03, 2015 2:52 pm

It's not exactly "subtle", but another plugin I like for a drum bus that I haven't seen yet is this free ensemble for Reaktor, Magnitude: http://boscomac.free.fr/?p=magnitude

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Sun May 03, 2015 8:06 pm

Grab all the variety of sound freebies. They'll glue everything up real nicely.

JJ

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Sun May 03, 2015 8:08 pm

Also try the Melda free bundle. That waveshaper along with the free comp can work wonders.

kbaccki · Post by **kbaccki** » Mon May 04, 2015 1:29 am

I know the request was for "not compression", but give IK Buss Compressor a demo. Depending on the overall drum sound you're looking for, it can give some dimension.

For more pure harmonic smearing, saturation, and the like... a tapesim (aforementioned tonebooster's is cheap), analog bus emu (aforementioned satson is cheap) can also give good results... or something straight and to the point... like http://www.voxengo.com/product/varisaturator/ or http://www.voxengo.com/product/warmifier/ ... or general purpose like http://www.voxengo.com/product/drumformer/ ...

Also, check out dynamic EQs... e.g. http://www.voxengo.com/product/glisseq/

kev2525 · Post by **kev2525** » Wed May 06, 2015 9:42 pm

Can anyone shed any insight on the how's and why's of why drum buss glueing works ? As a new'ish producer I am not sure what exactly I am supposed to be hearing and really what the effect chain or set up for the drum buss should be to get the best results. Are there any tutorials out there. At the moment i own komplete so I've tried the NI solid buss comp, but the results were meh.

mike the mental · Post by **mike the mental** » Thu May 07, 2015 3:24 am

it's like taking a bunch of cookie dough and pushing it through a mold

you are shaping the contour of all of the sounds together

waltercruz · Post by **waltercruz** » Thu May 07, 2015 4:13 am

Supercharger GT, although is a paid alternative, it's pretty good.

nicksohn · Post by **nicksohn** » Thu May 07, 2015 4:15 am

For the clear sounding buscompression, TB Buscompressor.

A bit colored gluing, Cytomic 'The glue'. or slate VBC.

Colored gluing, Molot (Free)

bailees7irish · Post by **bailees7irish** » Thu May 07, 2015 4:31 am

Ah_Dziz wrote:Grab all the variety of sound freebies. They'll glue everything up real nicely.

JJ

Meh...they're kinda lackluster in my opinion.

Ah_Dziz · Post by **Ah_Dziz** » Fri May 08, 2015 6:30 am

If you want to mush sounds together but for some reason don't want to use compression and also have a budget of zero they are completely up to the job. Other than synth maker being a bit crashy from time to time I find these are probably the best freeware available for adding a little bit of fuzzy goodness to a sound. Basically the OP is limiting himself to various waveshapers and eqs to "glue" his drums together. I personally would skip the fancy GUIs and magic analog style plugins and just use a straightforward waveshaper but lots of people want something subtle that has a shiny interface and does some kind of magical distorting that is poorly explained. And for the latter, VOS is the best stuff going in freeland.

JohnD71651 · Post by **JohnD71651** » Fri May 08, 2015 9:43 am

In my opinion Tonebooster's Reelbus 3 glues nicely:

http://www.toneboosters.com/tb-reelbus/

But compression often sounds better in my ears for gluing drums, by purpose saturators always 'mush up' the sound a bit. (And who doesn't use compression on drums anyway?)

I've also heard good things about FieldingDSP's reviver but don't own it.

Drum glue plug?