I had good success with parallel compression..
I have a nuke-group, a smash-group, a roomgroup and a drums group.
I comp every group individual.. the smashgroup is consisitng mostly the OH and any other room mic. the nukegroup is for snare and bass, the roomgroup for the whole drumkit again and then I comp the drums-group.
according to the article about preamps, I am more like the FIXER than creative
