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Bobby Owsinskin mainiosta "The Mixing Engineer's Handbook" -kirjassa miksaaja Joe Chiccarelli (Tori Amos, Beck, Frank Zappa jne.) kertoo:
 
"What I will do a lot is buss my drums to another stereo compressor, usually a Joe Meek SC2, and blend that in just under the uncompressed signal. Sometimes what I'll do if everything sounds good but the bass and kick drum aren't locked together or big enough to glue the record together; I'll take the kick and bass and buss them together to a separate compressor, squish that a fair amount and blend it back in. I'll add a little bottom end to that if the record still isn't big enough on the bottom. This helps fit the bass and kick lower on the record and gets it out of the way of the vocal."
 
- Tätä kikkaa on tullut itse kokeiltua. Koin sen erittäin toimivaksi varsinkin tiukassa (livenä soitetussa) rockissa.
 
Toinen katkelma samasta kirjasta, Lee DeCarlo (Aerosmith, John Lennon, Rancid) kertoo:
 
"I just get the bass and drums so they start to pump, to where you can actually hear them breathing in and out with the tempo of the song. What I'll do is put the drums and bass in a limiter and just crush the hell out of it. Then I'll play with the release and the attack times until I can actually make that limiter pump in time with the music. So when the drummer hits the snare, it sucks down and you get a good crest on it, and when he lets go of the snare, the ambience of the bass and the drums suck and shoot back up again. You can actually hear a breathing sound going on that was never there before. But it was there, it's just that you're augmenting it by using that limiter."
 
- Kokeilin myös tätä ja aikamoisia efektejä näin saa aikaiseksi. Tämän kanssa saa vaan kyllä olla varovainen, ettei tule liikaa tuota mainostettua "pumppausta".