Jeff Sandstrom FOH Engineer

Chris Tomlin, Passion City Church, Israel Houghton, New Breed

“My go-to plugin for parallel compression on drums. I use it to maintain clarity and presence when mixing drums in a large setting. I’ll process my individual drum channels, then group just the skins (kick, snare, toms) together and squeeze them pretty hard with the Kramer PIE. When I bring that fader up and combine the processed sound with the originals, it adds a thickness and width to the sound of the kit that works great. It’s a great way to maintain the transients in the tones despite having lots of other instruments in my mix.”