| I often find that it is to do with the room. If you are in a small room with a window right in front of the kit you will have more problems. There will be a lot of splash from the hats anyway. In that case I find it hard to get out of the overheads as well. You could try micing cymbals a lot closer and go behind the china and underneath the ride with mics. Also use soundreplacer to add a sample to the snare. The you can bring down the level of the real snare track a bit.
From the other side you can watch the drummer when playing carefully. Stop the performer if he hits the cymbals too quietly and try to get good volume from the cymbals. That way you can turn down the overheads a little. Also cut the gaps between each tom hit to stop the hats coming in from there as well. |