Simplified Drum Compression

At the heart of BSA Drum Bus lies simplicity and power, designed to energize & glue your drums with just a few controls. We’ve already dialled in the time-tested compression settings for modern drums, so you can add punch, warmth and tightness in seconds without worrying about ratios or milliseconds.

Two Precise Modes

• Standard mode: offers a clean, transparent compression that tightens your drum mix and creates cohesion and glue across your drum bus.
• Slammed mode: delivers aggressive, in-your-face compression to achieve that punchy, larger-than-life drum sound you’ve heard on your favorite records. Perfect for your parallel drum bus.

Auto Gain: Auto Gain built into each control for easy A/B’ing and no wasted time.

Color Your Drums: Fine-tune and shape your drum tone with the TONE and SALT controls. Use the Tone knob to go brighter and more present, or smoother and warmer. The Salt control adds flavor to your drums, subtly enhancing key frequencies that add power, clarity, and punch to any drum bus.

Saturation Tailored for Bigger Drums: The heat control adds tasteful saturation, enriching your drums with fitting harmonic content depending on which mode you’re in. Heat in STANDARD mode adds warmth and fullness. In SLAMMED mode, it adds grit and edge.

Key Features:

• The Standard mode offers a clean, transparent compression that tightens your drum mix and is ideal for subtle cohesion and glue across your drum bus.
• Slam mode, on the other hand, delivers an aggressive, in-your-face compression style. This mode is perfect for achieving that punchy, high-energy drum sound often heard in modern productions.
• Both modes feature auto gain compensation, ensuring your compressed drums maintain a natural sound without manual adjustments. The heat control adds mode-dependent saturation, enriching your compression with fitting harmonic content per mode.
• For further sound shaping, BSA Drum Bus includes an attack control for transient adjustment. This powerful feature allows you to fine-tune the initial impact of your drum hits. By adjusting the attack, you can emphasize the punch of your drums or smooth out the transients for a more controlled sound.
• The Tone and Salt controls offer extensive options for coloring and fine-tuning your drum tonality. The Tone control allows you to adjust the overall frequency balance of your drums to achieve the perfect drum glue for your mix. The Salt control adds a unique flavor to your drums, enhancing presence and helping your drums cut through in your track.