Andrew, I import the drum track to my DAW as a stereo .WAV file. The kick is always centered, and the toms usually have a nice stereo image, which meets my basic expectation. Once in DAW, I used a Stereo One drumkit preset that has multiband compression and EQ to help the drums sit in my mix better and give them a bit of lift. I'll tweak the EQ if needed, usually to tame the upper frequencies.

I'll do the same thing with BiaB percussion loops when used.

Like Noel, I export drums and everything else centered and without reverb or EQ. I've used normalization for .WAV export at times in the past, but usually don't. I don't use drum stems much either, but if I did I'd probably start off treating them the same as a complete kit and adjust from there.

Have spent many years using MIDI drum kits, and have several very cool sounding drum VSTis, but find using BiaB drums as stereo .WAV files satisfies my musical needs 99.9% of the time while being far more efficient with my time.

Last edited by DC Ron; 03/20/25 01:25 AM.
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