some suggestions for my snare track coming out sounding like crap

carlpony351

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ok i posted some stuff here before but now i have a little dilemma.

the mic that records the snare on my kit is one of those generic mics that you pay 130 bucks for a whole mic package, the name brand is soundking, some euro crap.

now, before it would record the mic perfectly fine and now it records the cymbals alot also, instead of capturing just the snare it gets alot of the cymbal and it bleeds over into the overheads and i didn't use to do that before.
for some reason though what it does capture of the snare comes out distorted even though i record it and normal volume without any peaks goign out of whack, i tried a sm58 but that made it worse..and suggestion will be appreciated, here is the snare track with minimal eqing applied, i tried a gate but the cymbal is to loud and appears and dissapears with each snare hit.

i'm using cubase SX v 1.0


 
This sounds entirely like a preamp problem. Try it in a different channel and see what happens.
 
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