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Plug-In Order

Plug-in order is a topic that should be considered when mixing or mastering. There are general guidelines, then there are lots of rules to be broken!

Here is what I understand to be a generally accepted all-purpose plugin order:

1) Noise Gate
2) Compressor
3) EQ
4) Reverb/delay

Getting Nashville Snare Sound?

Anyone here have any idea how a lot of the folks in Nashville doing the newer country material manage to produce such a hard hitting - yet extremely transparent - snare? Does anyone know what mic's/placement/EQ is generally being used? It's driving me batty... Too much compression sounds fake, too much volume kills the transparency, and extreme EQ's just sound bad... Any suggestions?