how do you not have bleed in mics

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I don't get it. I have a kick mic, a snare mic, and a condenser. I put the condensor like three feet awya from the cymbals at cymbal level. My condensor sounds fine but the kick and the snare has so much bleed. How do I not have that. I try to EQ according to other articles I have read and it just doesn't work. it sound wierd. I am assuming it is because I am doing snare type eqing on a mixture of hat and snare. Which isn't that bad but bass drum and cymbals are like totally different.
 
Mic bleeding while recording drums is fully normal. You can try to roll of some low end to get rid of the kick, but that´s it. But even then, it´s not a disaster anyway. I have once tried to record cymbals, snare and kick apart from each other, and I really didn´t like the results of every part just being picked up by one microphone.
Just try and make a nice mix of it.
 
Down a few posts dumass had a very simelar post about drum bleed, also remember to aim the snare mic away from the hihat
You will get bleed but this is normal, if you only have one overhead put that about a foot and a half above the cymbles unless you have the cymbles really high, I kind of like my overhead mics the same distance over the cymbles as the distance from the drums to the cymbles, but there are many variables. good luck
 
The art of mic placement for drum recording is not to eliminate bleed- primarily because that's completely impossible. The art is to place the mics where the bleed sounds _good_... And that's completely dependent upon the kit, the drummer's style, the room, and the gear you have available. Keep playing with the placement until you like it. That's why recording acoustic drums well takes so damned long.... (;-)
 
You should be able to parametrically eq your snare and kick tracks to get rid of unwanted frequencies and add more punch.

For example for your snare, you can roll off below 150, boost around 300, cut around 500 and boost around 5000. That should get rid of a lot of the kick and give the snare added punch and crispness
 
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