I typically record hard rock bands. In many venues, the drums are mixed too loud and end up in front of the mix rather than the guitars, which is really what should be in front of the mix with hard rock music. If the spectrum analyzer in Audition is accurate, the offending drums seem to be between 200Hz and 1,000Hz. EQ does not help becuase there's so much other sound in that frequency range that reducing those bands would only make things worse.
Is there a way to use the mulit-band compressor in Audition to somehow reduce the volume of the drums without messing up anything else? If so, what kind of settings would you suggest? I've never bothered with compression, as I've always disliked what it does to the sound. So I'm a complete novice.
Any help/suggestions are greatly appreciated.