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Not that my advice is in the same league as MW, but when I run into this a lot of the time I find it's the result of a badly mic'd snare.
As in your highly compressed snare track could be bleeding A LOT more hat into the mix than the OH channels.
A liberal amount of LO-PASS above the point of the snare crack can usually tame it down... tho how much of it goes away is dependent on how it was recorded.
Aside from that, I tend to not crush my OH channels. I will bus the actual drum tracks - the ones which consist of actual tubs with heads... out and crush the living shit out of them if that's what it takes, but I'll leave the OH channels out of the compression buss.
I know you said you can't re-record it, but the ideal solution would be to have a separate room mic (or mics...) which you can crush the bejeezus out of for the ambience w/o sacrificing the detail in your OH channels.
just my 2 cents...
ryan
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