The Devil-Loc Deluxe is just a must for a Drum Bus. It's nasty but controllable in it's mix knob. Love this thing, it makes every single mix.

I'm really into noisy lo-fi music, and I've been experimenting with always using a bit of distortion in conjunction with, or sometimes even instead of traditional compression. So a compressor that can tastefully add crunch to a wide variety of sounds or songs was a perfect fit. This is really easy to use, and it has worked well for drums, bass, guitar, vocals, piano, and synth. Crush-only sounds good, crunch-only sounds good, both sound good together, and the darkness setting is especially helpful to relax cymbals. I love that it has the blend included, since even on low settings the plugin has a noticeable effect.

If you loved the over the top insanity of SSL's LMC1 Listen Mic Compressor, but felt it could use just a smidge more control, here's your huckleberry. Even with more controls, it still doesn't have a lot of range, but you'll find a very surprising array of uses beyond the standard 'parallel drums buss' trick. I've even faded it up under a wispy clean vocal to enhance intelligibility. And NO WORRIES; all the Soundtoys' line has been updated for 64 bit, no wrappers required.

It sounds great like I was hoping it would, and it's super-earsy to use. But...It took over five weeks of technical support from John at Sweetwater to get it going. It just would not appear in the plug-ins list in Logic 9. To make a long story short, it is a 32-bit plug-in, and since I was running in 64-bit mode, it wasn't showing. I think, in retrospect, if the product description had indicated that it was 32-bit, I don't think I would have bought it.

this thing absolutely kills on parallel drum buss. so much extra punch and girth for rock and roll kick and snare. I originally had the limited version and upgraded to the full version. Its worth it for the extra mix and darkness controls (otherwise I sometimes needed an EQ too). I have also used this on a distorted vocal track and it added the perfect amount of grit without getting ugly. Test it out and you WILL want it too.