| Um... hire a drummer. Tone colour altering won't make it soundless like a machine- the best way to do that is programming it closer to how a real drummer would play. Compression will take all the dynamics out of it- which is the exact opposite of what you want.
Embrace its machininess, wallow in its machiniosity and make it a feature.
If you want something cool to process drums, but a Sansamp PSA1 preamp. They have been a not so secret weapon of dozens of producers for years- awesome on kick and bass.
I rackmounted a bunch of guitar pedals (Tubescreamer, Big Muff and a Danelectro Fabtone) a few years ago, made it fully balanced and put 120v power in there. I call it 'distorto rack'. I use it on drums all the time.
Regards,
Jim Richmond On Sep 23, 2007, at 1:58 AM, Adam Hart wrote: Hi everyone. I'm running a BOSS Dr 880 directly into my PA (Bose LP1 tower). I am thinking that I want to compress the sound and maybe warm it up a bit to make it sound less "machiney". Any thoughts or advice as to how to process the sound before it hits my PA?
Thanks,
Adam | 
