Ben Carrigan - Hey Carrie Anne

[pauli]

About the timpani, I'm so curious about that trick. I'm sorry but I don't remember you discussing this -in fact the last month I've been kind of 'lost' from the forum because of work and vacation- so can you tell me how to did it?

This probably won't make the timpani any more audible... you'll still have to turn it up a bit, but you can definitely intensify it with this method. On the reverb channel that's working on the entire mix, put a compressor after the reverb plugin. Then configure the compressor so the timpani feeds it's sidechain... so whenever the timpani plays, it very quickly compresses about 3 to 5 dB of the reverb and releases just as soon as the timpani's attack has finished. Your ears will naturally create an effect such as this when there's a very loud sound, so this can psychoacoustically fool your brain into thinking the timpani is much louder than it really is.