Snare Sound

[Blor007]

Hi ,

I already made a post about drum sound, but i'm really stuck on this one.
I have used distance micing now from the snare (as far as possible without too much bleed from the hi-hat).
I used 2 mic's , an SM 57 on top pointing towards the outer ring of the center. And another SM 57 on the bottom pointing at the same point.
I recorded it trough a Mitec 16 chan mix table with 8 direct out- channels.
( http://www.staudio.com/products/dsp2000.html )
I used 2 channels for the snare, Kickdrum,2 toms,Floor tom and 2 overheads.
Now i'm still not entirely happy about the sound, i used no compression and little eq'ing.
I waited to do it on the computer, but the compression in Cool Edit Pro is quite complicated and everything i do with echo/reverb or Eq'ing sounds bad.


Here is the soundfile :

And this is the mix were i used it:
http://users.pandora.be/blor007/CutTheCrap(alpha).mp3


Now with all those advanced people here, and me being a total newbie in sound-engineering i bet someone can make it sound much better and give me some advice


Thx in advance,
Blor007

 

[rocker]

forget the bottom snare mic they almost never sound good. tune the drum so it sounds tighter than it sounds now, that way when you add compression you can get more snap if you use a slow attack with the compressor.

 

[tmix]

The snare alone sounds a little dull, possibly needs a little EQ boost around 10 k. My home computer is too slow to load the song, so I could not hear it in context.

You have an OK start to a snare sound. My preference is to add a second mic (condensor) to the top of the snare at a little distance and add that to taste as opposed to an under snare mic. The under snare mic can have too many phase issues.

What ever you do, work with the eq and such IN THE MIX. It may sound horrible when solo'd but great in the mix.