Decent VST's for drum mixing

[nr.williams12]

So I've been running Ozone 5 recently but it seems the CPU usage is so ridiculous that I can only use it to do the final mastering of the tracks, and recommendations on some VST's (freeware or not) that work better than the one's that come standard in Ableton? Normally I just put an EQ and a bit of compression every now and then but if y'all know any good plugins for that, or anything else you put on your drums, letting me know would be appreciated.

 

[spyre]

I've been putting a slight tube distortion on the drums channel recently and the multiband compressor in ableton is good too

 

[yogi23]

izotope alloy is pretty decent for putting on the drum buss, or a good limiter/compressor

 

[lostnthesound]

Lately I've been using Battery for my kits. A bit intimidating at first, but once you start exploring it's quite a genius setup. Being able to edit each sound within the plugin (as as add FX and such) is a huge plus.

 

[d-low]

yeah bit of tube saturation on the snare goes a long way

 

[spyre]

Oh yeah and parallel compression can work a treat also

 

[T:M]

I typically put some tube or tape distortion/saturation, extremely subtle eq, and very tiny amount of reverb, on my master drum buss followed by light compression.