Found an interesting use for the "under the snare" mic

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I don't know if this is common or not, but I just stumbled upon it. I always record the underside of the snare, but I rarely end up using it. Today I was mixing a song that was just a pain in the ass as far as the snare drum was concerned. Ghost notes all over the place, so I couldn't get a clean gate. Reverb just wasn't working at all on the top snare mic since the sound up there was very dark and thud-y. As a result, reverb trails were very dull and had no sparkle. I was about to give up and replace it with a sample (and that would have been a pain due to the ghost notes)...

So what I ended up doing was gating the underside snare mic (didn't really care if the ghost notes were cut out there) and applying reverb to it while leaving the upper snare mic compleatly dry. I ended up with a nice snap/thud and ghost notes from up top, and clean sparkly reverb trails from the mic underneeth.

Anybody else ever try that?
 
thats cool, the obliteration snap of DEATH, a good cool way to do it

another cool one is the under snare trap fake reverb of anihilation:

split the under the snare signal

run one with attack of zero or even negative values, release around 50 to 100 ms ratio like 40 to 1 !!!

run the other signal attack near 40 ms release about 250, ratio near 6 to 1

now combine them and youll hear a weird " reverb" that is actually the compressor unpumping
 
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