Misc. Drum Recording Manipulations

[choc]

Hey everyone,

I have a few questions, so I think I should just get into it. These questions all pertain to band recordings; seperate tracks and everything together. I'm using Cool Edit Pro V2, BTW.

1. I have a mono recording of a drum track. Is there a way to increase the sound of the snare and kick and NOT the cymbals?

2. I also have a mono recording of a band performing live, but the vocals and bass are a little low. Is there a way to bring them up from a mono recording?

Infinite thanks to all of you. I see that this Forum is loaded with professionals who know their stuff at a level I never will.

-Ollie

[brendandwyer]

It's difficult, but if you have a mixer with decent Eq, you could almost sort of accomplish it. Here's my reccomendation. Copy the drum track onto 2 additional tracks. Manipulate the eq of the 1st (copied) track to cut most of the bass freq out, and attenuate the mids and hi's to bring the snare out more. Repeat on the other tracks to bring out other frequencies. You may still get some cymbal wash, but if you carefully attenuate the hi's you should be fine. For the snare, you could apply a noise gate that has a very quick release so that the cymbal bleed is minimized after the snare hit ends.

Repeat the same technique for the full band recording, but i will warn you, it is trememdoulsy difficult with vocals.