
Wireneck
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I was just curious if anyone has any tricks to help lower the amount of cymbal sound in tom mics. It seems like most of the drummers ive recorded lately have their cymbals right above the toms and beat the hell out of them.
I usually use sm-57s on the toms close mic'ed. I mainly recording metal type stuff where the drummers are on the cymbals alot. It seems like when i push the toms up loud enough to be in the mix theres as much cymbal coming through on the toms as there is in my overheads.
I know i can use a gate but i was just curious if there were any other tricks I can try before i spend money on a channel or two of gate?
I usually use sm-57s on the toms close mic'ed. I mainly recording metal type stuff where the drummers are on the cymbals alot. It seems like when i push the toms up loud enough to be in the mix theres as much cymbal coming through on the toms as there is in my overheads.
I know i can use a gate but i was just curious if there were any other tricks I can try before i spend money on a channel or two of gate?