lostcausestudio
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So here's the situation, I just bought a new drum kit for the studio, to replace my old electronic kit with a nice acoustic setup, Mapex mars pro birch, with meinl custom classic dark cymbals. The drums sound fantastic live, the cymbals have just the sound I was looking for, but when I track them the cymbals sound thin, brash, and harsh, right now my setup is as follows, I'm running a cad kbm412 for the kick drum mic, got it clamped to the hoop and inside the ported head, an audix f15 close mic'd on my snare, audio technica mb dk4's on my toms and 2 nady cm-88's for the overhead mics in a spaced pair, they are all running direct into my behringer x32 mixer and into the daw. I have corrected all the phase issues, I have spent a few hours tweaking the eq on the overheads, and can not get the tone I want out of the cymbals, after isolating each individual track what I have found is that I have a significant amount of cymbal bleed going to the snare and tom mics, all are cardioid pattern mics, the cymbals are set high as it is, I am at a loss as to how to get the cymbals to stop bleeding so much into my snare and tom mics, any help would be appreciated.