Eight drum microphones and one hand. Two opposite instincts — sum them so one fader moves the kit, or bypass the summing entirely so nothing is committed — and the difference between a VCA group and an audio one.
Eight microphones on a drum kit, and you need the whole kit two decibels quieter in the chorus. You have one hand and eight faders, and the balance between those eight took twenty minutes to get right.
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