Using a Compressor on a Drum Recording

With a lot of compressors you can just whack the attack control down to minimum and it's fine. The release time on the other hand usually wants to be fairly slow. Slow enough at least that it avoids pulling up the tail of the drum in between each hit. Bear in mind though, if it's too slow, the compressor won't have a chance to reset its gain reduction usefully between hits. In both those cases, my preferred solution would be to edit the drum multi-track so that the snare becomes more consistent without compression. Unfixing the source is almost always a better tactic than processing.

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