Blending Triggered Drums with Live OH Mics

[BobbyBalow]

Hey everyone,

I've been tracking metal bands a lot recently so I've triggered the toms, kick, and snare and have 3 live mics (2 overheads and a high hat mic). Because of the nature of the music, I needed to quantize the kick and snare pretty heavily due to a poorer performance on the drums. But what is happening is that the bleed of the kick and snare in the overhead mics are audible with the quantized trigger sounds (you can hear a gallop sound from the unquantized overheads and the quantized midi triggers). Has anyone developed a way to minimize this problem? I really don't want to program the entire drum section for the songs, but I will if I have to. I'm using the new Cubase 6 if it matters. Thanks everyone!

 

[Greg_L]

Has anyone developed a way to minimize this problem?

Yup, use a better drummer.

 

[witzendoz]

I needed to quantize the kick and snare pretty heavily due to a poorer performance on the drums.

Drummer should forget recording for 12 months, go away and get lesions, practice, play music that they can play (Metal is not the easiest) for a while and then try again. If it sounds bad in the studio it will sound bad live so whats the point.

Just tell them you are replacing the drums with a drum machine, which is what you are doing anyway.

Alan.

 

[Armistice]

Slightly OT, but I was reading Mixerman's tome and was cracking up at all the tricks he was going to get the band's drummer recorded.... amazing... sounds like the OP has similar problems.

Breaking his arm is not an option!