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Old 24th November 2003   #3
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Listen to a lot of the commercial "heavy rock" records out their and you will notice that the BD is little more than a click sound. It maybe that the beta52 is giving you too much bass end. If this is the case I would put a high pass filter as well as possibly a bass eq. Gonna need a lot of 3-5khz depending on the drum.

It is totally possible, that either the drum wasn't a good one, or that the mic was in the wrong position. If this is the case you either have more than a lot of work to do or simpler (not that I particularly advocate it) replace the drum with triggered drum samples. This is common practice in these situations and regularly used on big budget productions anyway.

Hope this is a help!

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