especially whaen recording drums, PHASE can be a phantom nightmare on your over all sound. a good way too see if you have phase issues is to put the drum tracks i.e. snare, in mono and flip the phase reverse on one of the tracks, (assuming your editor can do this) If you hear an addition in the bass and fullness of the two tracks, then A) you had phase problems and B) you for the most part have fixed it. This also can salvage phased out over heads. But if you use X-y u shouldnt have that problem.
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