Kapo_Polenton
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Hi guys,
Listening to a lot of isolated drum tracks on youtube (love the big 80's sounds!) and notice that apart from the drenched in reverb, the hats cut through but the crashes are very subdued and lay low in the overall mix. I've currently got a 7 mic setup : snare, toms, kick close mic'd, 2 overheads setup in stereo. Everything sounds decent for raw recording (toms need new skins though) but if I get the crashes to lay back in the overall drum track, not enough of the ride or hats come through. I've done a lot of reading and a lot articles tend to imply that hi hat dedicated mic are barely used even when setup and most of the cymbals come from the overheads. If this is the case, are/were engineers simply doubling an overhead track and editing out crashes then bringing them back in on their own track where the volume has been lowered? Listening to Nicko here, sounds a lot like the hats and ride cut and are louder than the crashes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33t0H5Dt5CY is that my imagination?
thanks.
Listening to a lot of isolated drum tracks on youtube (love the big 80's sounds!) and notice that apart from the drenched in reverb, the hats cut through but the crashes are very subdued and lay low in the overall mix. I've currently got a 7 mic setup : snare, toms, kick close mic'd, 2 overheads setup in stereo. Everything sounds decent for raw recording (toms need new skins though) but if I get the crashes to lay back in the overall drum track, not enough of the ride or hats come through. I've done a lot of reading and a lot articles tend to imply that hi hat dedicated mic are barely used even when setup and most of the cymbals come from the overheads. If this is the case, are/were engineers simply doubling an overhead track and editing out crashes then bringing them back in on their own track where the volume has been lowered? Listening to Nicko here, sounds a lot like the hats and ride cut and are louder than the crashes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33t0H5Dt5CY is that my imagination?
thanks.