There are plenty of music styles that trade on the sound of heavy buss-compression, but that processing can make it difficult to keep a sense of punch in the drums, especially at points in the music where the arrangement is at its fullest. Take this mixed drum sound, for instance.

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Although this feels pretty powerful on its own, once I add in the bass and guitars, the kick and snare don't punch through as well as I'd like.

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However, if I simply fade up the kick and snare group channels, both those instruments hit the dynamics processing on the drums buss and master-buss harder, changing the sound of the drums' sustain tails, and gain-pumping the cymbals and the guitars. 

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Now, clearly, if you want those additional side-effects, then that's all well and good, but if you were already happy with the rest of the mix, and just wanted to add some drums punch, then here's my favourite mix trick for that. What you do is feed some of the kick and snare signal around the master buss, directly to your DAW output. Here's what I've sent to this new buss in this case.

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And now let's hear the sonic impact of that extra buss in context.

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An added benefit of this approach is that you're also free to process the extra buss to tweak the nature of the added punch. For instance, you could high-pass filter the buss here to make the kick-drum feel a little tighter.

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