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Old 7th November 2005, 09:33 PM   #18
rlnyc
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Originally Posted by Nut
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

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 !

i use a dynamite set for gate and DOWNWARD EXPANDER. it works perfectly doing exactly that (to remove high hat from snare mic).

good luck,
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