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Originally Posted by C_F_H_13  I still do all my replacement manually....I guess I'm a dinosaur in that sense. |
I've gone back to this as well - I want to preserve the original drum track as much as possible. Part of it is my iconoclastic nature, but I have completely rebelled against the ticky tack drum sound found in modern metal. I have started recording big booming drum kit sounds for metal, and fitting everything else around it. The drummers fight until they hear how ****ing huge it sounds. I haven't really gotten the EQ or compression right yet, but just putting the drums back in the low end where the belong has triggered (no pun intended) a sea change in the way a few of my favorite local bands have approached drum sounds. It is far easier to record full low end drums and make them brighter than to record bright drums and go looking for low end.
If I need a fix, I just use an earlier hit. I am a dynamics *****, so unless it is really jarring, I just leave it alone.