Mixing drum tracks - best way to eq, and bus sends

Bristol_Jonesey
Route all of your drums to it's own drum bus.
 
Do all of your EQ & compression on the individual tracks - you can add a global EQ on the drum bus IF it's needed. You can also add a further compression stage on the bus
 
Insert sends on your drum tracks to the drum reverb bus. 
 
Whatever reverb you choose, make sure it's set to 100% wet. Several plugins offer separate faders for the wet/dry level, in which case turn the dry level all the way down.
 
I quite often split out my toms to a tom bus so i can treat them all in one go, then route this to the drum bus.
I find it also helps to route kick & bass to a Bass bus. Muting this should totally remove the low end form your mix - anything else which pokes out should be EQ'ed appropriately to get rid of any LF build up

Bristol_Jonesey
Route all of your drums to it's own drum bus.
 
Do all of your EQ & compression on the individual tracks - you can add a global EQ on the drum bus IF it's needed. You can also add a further compression stage on the bus
 
Insert sends on your drum tracks to the drum reverb bus. 
 
Whatever reverb you choose, make sure it's set to 100% wet. Several plugins offer separate faders for the wet/dry level, in which case turn the dry level all the way down.
 
I quite often split out my toms to a tom bus so i can treat them all in one go, then route this to the drum bus.
I find it also helps to route kick & bass to a Bass bus. Muting this should totally remove the low end form your mix - anything else which pokes out should be EQ'ed appropriately to get rid of any LF build up

sausy1981
Here's a video from a mix series I did recently about me mixing drums, It's how I approached this song, each song can take different approaches. If you watch the first video in the series it concentrates on setting up a session including routing.
Drum Mix video ---> https://youtu.be/738p71Ly-Nc
Session set-up video ----> https://youtu.be/LF6EngBNhxM

robert_e_bone
All of the above is saved off as a track template, which has all the audio tracks and the drums midi track in a track folder (allowing collapsing or expansion of the drum tracks), and I have a track template set up for each Battery 3 drum kit that I have used in any Sonar project.  Each track template then includes a custom Battery 3 kit, with each used cell set to use its own outputs from Battery 3, and there is a separate audio track for each of the kit pieces for the outputs from Battery 3, so with just a few mouse clicks to insert from track template, I get a REALLY good start on the drums setup for that project.

Bristol_Jonesey
Route all of your drums to it's own drum bus.
 
Do all of your EQ & compression on the individual tracks - you can add a global EQ on the drum bus IF it's needed. You can also add a further compression stage on the bus
 
Insert sends on your drum tracks to the drum reverb bus. 
 
Whatever reverb you choose, make sure it's set to 100% wet. Several plugins offer separate faders for the wet/dry level, in which case turn the dry level all the way down.
 
I quite often split out my toms to a tom bus so i can treat them all in one go, then route this to the drum bus.
I find it also helps to route kick & bass to a Bass bus. Muting this should totally remove the low end form your mix - anything else which pokes out should be EQ'ed appropriately to get rid of any LF build up

Chevy

Bristol_Jonesey
Route all of your drums to it's own drum bus.
 
Do all of your EQ & compression on the individual tracks - you can add a global EQ on the drum bus IF it's needed. You can also add a further compression stage on the bus
 
Insert sends on your drum tracks to the drum reverb bus. 
 
Whatever reverb you choose, make sure it's set to 100% wet. Several plugins offer separate faders for the wet/dry level, in which case turn the dry level all the way down.
 
I quite often split out my toms to a tom bus so i can treat them all in one go, then route this to the drum bus.
I find it also helps to route kick & bass to a Bass bus. Muting this should totally remove the low end form your mix - anything else which pokes out should be EQ'ed appropriately to get rid of any LF build up

Ok...  sorry for being slow on the pickup...  have done very little bus routing... are you saying by "Route all of your drums to it's own drum bus", do you mean route all the drum tracks pre-fader thru insert sends to a new drum bus?  And then just pull the actual drum track volumes down to zero (using the sends for balance) ?  If you don't pull the track volumes down, it seems you will always have the dry tracks playing at the same time as the drum bus tracks, and EQ'ing the drum buss will just be a parallel EQ bus.