northsiderap
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Hey all, my first post.
I have had a problem with my hi-hats bleeding heavily through my snare mic. I've moved the mic all over the place. Lately I've taped a big ol' foam pad on the side of the hi-hats with no success at all. I've moved the drums into the center of the room to cut reflections off of the wall. I added giant rolls of foam on the hi-hat side, and behind them I put rockwool at all odd angles to diffuse the reflections. I duct taped the !@%$% out of my hats.
Guess what? No change. Even with the snare track solo'ed it sounds like HAT HAT HAT HAT HAT HAT HAT snare HAT HAT HAT HAT snare ........
I'd like a nice bright revealing snare sound with some compression & reverb, but the hi-hats always bleed through and force me to EQ the top end way down. It gets worse after I compress, and I have to overcompensate with an EQ or de-esser, once again killing that nice bright snare sound.
I use FFT analysis to find the dominant hi-hat frequencies and squash them. Once again and always, killing my snare sound. It sounds all mid-rangey at best and I am starting to hate it.
I record my drums with:
Two Groove Tubes AM62s either XY or X-----Y panned 1/4 left & 1/4 right. Distance from the set depends on my mood and how I have my room.
A EV 644 shotgun mic a few inches away from the bass drum.
A Shure SM-57 about 3-6 inches from the top of the snare, about 4 inches in.
For preamps I've tried:
My Lamb Laboratories discrete mixer for L/R (bright!)
Presonus BLUETUBE for L/R or bass & snare
My custom racked Dukane thingies (very flat)
Vintage Fairchild thingamabobs in a rack (dark, maybe NEVE-like)
My Behringer mixer (ummm...)
Can anyone help me? Has anyone made it through this whole post?
---Jim--
==NorthSideRap.com==
I have had a problem with my hi-hats bleeding heavily through my snare mic. I've moved the mic all over the place. Lately I've taped a big ol' foam pad on the side of the hi-hats with no success at all. I've moved the drums into the center of the room to cut reflections off of the wall. I added giant rolls of foam on the hi-hat side, and behind them I put rockwool at all odd angles to diffuse the reflections. I duct taped the !@%$% out of my hats.
Guess what? No change. Even with the snare track solo'ed it sounds like HAT HAT HAT HAT HAT HAT HAT snare HAT HAT HAT HAT snare ........
I'd like a nice bright revealing snare sound with some compression & reverb, but the hi-hats always bleed through and force me to EQ the top end way down. It gets worse after I compress, and I have to overcompensate with an EQ or de-esser, once again killing that nice bright snare sound.
I use FFT analysis to find the dominant hi-hat frequencies and squash them. Once again and always, killing my snare sound. It sounds all mid-rangey at best and I am starting to hate it.
I record my drums with:
Two Groove Tubes AM62s either XY or X-----Y panned 1/4 left & 1/4 right. Distance from the set depends on my mood and how I have my room.
A EV 644 shotgun mic a few inches away from the bass drum.
A Shure SM-57 about 3-6 inches from the top of the snare, about 4 inches in.
For preamps I've tried:
My Lamb Laboratories discrete mixer for L/R (bright!)
Presonus BLUETUBE for L/R or bass & snare
My custom racked Dukane thingies (very flat)
Vintage Fairchild thingamabobs in a rack (dark, maybe NEVE-like)
My Behringer mixer (ummm...)
Can anyone help me? Has anyone made it through this whole post?
---Jim--
==NorthSideRap.com==