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Long-time drum recorder here. I mixed my last few tracks entirely in Audition, and a surprising number of people still assume Audition "can't do music." It absolutely can — you just have to treat it like a multitrack editor, not a traditional DAW.

The main elements of the chain that's been working for me:

1. Parametric EQ first — carve the low-mid mud out of the kick and toms before you boost anything. Audition's built-in parametric is genuinely enough for this; I don't reach for paid EQ on drums at all.
2. Gate the snare before compressing — otherwise the compressor is just amplifying bleed from the rest of the kit.
3. Compression last, subtle — roughly 3:1, just to glue the kit together. Nothing heavier needed.

The point of the whole thing: you don't need a plugin suite for a pro drum tone in Audition. The stock tools do far more than people give them credit for.

I recorded a full walkthrough of the workflow with before/after A/B comparisons if you want to hear it in practice:

https://youtu.be/L5J9gr69EMs

Happy to answer anything on the chain — always keen to compare notes with other Audition drum people.

Good morning from a very sunny UK. My project ERRRORS is industrial/dark electronic - think Nine Inch Nails meets The Prodigy at 3am.
This track came from a place I think many of us recognise: self-doubt. That voice that tells you it's not good enough. We decided to build a song out of it instead of letting it win.
Filmed in an ancient cemetery in Lancaster with question from HINTF magazine (Portugal). I'm on drums, my bandmate Ste handles production and vocals. We mixed and mastered it ourselves.
Honest feedback welcome - what works, what doesn't, what you'd change. If this connects, there's more coming every week.

There's a voice that never stops — ERRRORS 'Into The Dust'
https://youtu.be/SUpHoN0tGeE