How to Make a Note Longer, Shorter, Brighter or Darker

Speakers should always be the last thing you turn on and the first thing that you turn off. Don't expose your speakers to any kind of thump like this. A really fast release will help you to add brightness because it's a form of distortion. And you'll hear the more you dig in on drums. With a faster release and higher ratios, or lower thresholds, or both, you can really get a lot of sort of agro snap on the sound. That's what i love for drums, is a medium attack, the fastest release possible. If you want to give yourself longer notes on a drum, give yourself aFast release on the compressors so they don't distort