Bring down the rest of your mix. You should be seeing -6 or -7 peaks in your project before you send to mastering. Then when you limit and compress everything will come out.
Compression is a good idea on your drum tracks though, but not heavy, just to tighten them up... then create a send fx with reverb on it and give a some of all your drums to the same verb. Voila... presence.
i need help with compressing drums. you know of any good youtube tutorials? or care to give insight on how to get started? i dont mean parallel compression. i mean just regular compressing the drums.
