Separate take for hi-hat/OH's?

[KeithCF]

I am wondering how many people here track all their drums together when recording; specifically, if you record hi-hat and OH's along with kick, snare, toms -- or do you lay down hi-hat and OH's separately to prevent bleeding into the snare and tom mics?

I plan to record using Cubase and Drumagog, but will use the "real" hi-hat and cymbal sounds. Is there any way I can record everything together and _not_ experience bleeding?

Keith

 

[Bulls Hit]

I track drums with kick, snare and 1 overhead. I sometimes double the kick track and a trigger sample.

The ohead actually picks up most of the snare as well as cymblas & hats. The snare mic just adds a bit of bottom.

The good thing about Drumagog is that you can adjust both the sensitivity and resolution of the trigger. It acts like a gate, so if you're triggering a kick sample and you've got snare bleed in there, just adjust the sensitivity to ignore the snare and trigger only on the kicks

 

[KeithCF]

Cool

I track drums with kick, snare and 1 overhead. I sometimes double the kick track and a trigger sample.

The ohead actually picks up most of the snare as well as cymblas & hats. The snare mic just adds a bit of bottom.

The good thing about Drumagog is that you can adjust both the sensitivity and resolution of the trigger. It acts like a gate, so if you're triggering a kick sample and you've got snare bleed in there, just adjust the sensitivity to ignore the snare and trigger only on the kicks

That will work perfectly! I can use the same method and set the sensitivity of the snare trigger in Drumagog to ignore hi-hat hits and just trigger on the snare hits. Thanks for the tip --

Keith