Perceived loudness for drums

I'm wondering how many of you guys use a saturation type plugin on your drums. There are plugins out there that emulate tape saturation which basically acts as a limiter on drums. Same with native instruments transient master. It boosts the attack but it has a built in limiter. Basically I'm wondering about boosting the volume of your drums using a limiter type plugin. Would this just make your drums sound too squashed or is this something that a lot of you guys do?

I've used distortion on my drum buss on every track I've done for the past 5-6 years at least. Always increases the perceived loudness.

Of course, I also slam the inputs on my MPC while sampling drums which also adds distortion. And I slam it a bit when recording back in haha. So basically for me, it's distortion, distortion, then distortion

I own an RNC, I didn't find it that effective for drums, dope for vox though.
Currently I run my whole sequence from my MPC through 2 vacuum tube channel strips, mpc 3k ain't got shit on the punch these babies do.

But I also like to use a bit of distortion, oi Dmarz45, if you have the EB-16 card, use the distortion on this for your drums. If used correctly and not over smash it, you can get a good crunch out of it. Works a treat.

Another tip is to EQ EQ and EQ... anything and everything. If something is lacking in any frequency then boost it.

I use Fab Filter Saturn VST is my favorite Saturation plugin.

There are so many different ways to flip it with the side chain and it has all kind of creative parameters to use. You should all peep the youtube videos of it to get an idea of what I'm talking about. Invaluable plugin.