Originally Posted by
Cary B. Cornett
Out of curiosity, were the drum tracks recorded by you? I have learned to do certain things in tracking to reduce leakage between kick and snare. One helpful trick is to take a heavy blanket, like a moving blanket or a down comforter, and carefully drape it around the kick drum as a kind of improvised sleeve around the shell and draped over both front and back heads (avoiding the beater, of course). This significantly muffles leakage in both directions. More recently I have also often taking to miking both top and bottom of the snare, inverting the phase of the bottom mic, and recording each mic to its own track. This lets me dial in exactly how much "snap" I want from the snare at mix time, and in a situation like yours, would also provide a better source for partially cancelling leakage from the snares into the kick track.
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