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Nut · 7th November 2005, 12:35 PM

Hmmm.... A nasty thing...

Many of my favorite recordings feature perfect seperation between the snare and highhat. The engineer was somehow able to keep the two sounds totally seperate of eachother, allowing the hats to be panned hard right/left and for the hats to be coming from that direction only. They will then compress the crap out fo the snare, but not get any of that associated hats spill that can make a snare sound like a burst of white noise...

What are the tricks behind this seperation ? I've tried all sorts of snare mic positions, but it never seems to matter. Gates don't help me either. Is it the room ? Is it to do with the overheads ? Please, educate me !

7th November 2005, 12:35 PM	#1
Nut Gear nut Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Waterloo, Sydney, Australia Posts: 114	High Hat bleed... Hmmm.... A nasty thing... Many of my favorite recordings feature perfect seperation between the snare and highhat. The engineer was somehow able to keep the two sounds totally seperate of eachother, allowing the hats to be panned hard right/left and for the hats to be coming from that direction only. They will then compress the crap out fo the snare, but not get any of that associated hats spill that can make a snare sound like a burst of white noise... What are the tricks behind this seperation ? I've tried all sorts of snare mic positions, but it never seems to matter. Gates don't help me either. Is it the room ? Is it to do with the overheads ? Please, educate me !