Kirchhoff EQ - dynamic transparent EQ but can also add tone and color. Pultec eq - gives a nice expensive sheen to the sound. UAD maximizer - does its job nicely and has good saturation if needed. UAD limiter - very transparent and sounds professional. BX Clipper - simply does the job well. Ozone maximizer and limiter - does as great of a job as UAD but with a slightly different flavor.
The 80’s hip hop drums were big and thick and I was wondering how did they get the drums sounding so good. Did they use parallel processing back then? If not the how was it accomplished?