05-09-2014, 03:34 AM
Thank you, Andreas 
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For me, the snare close mics sound considerably better than what the overheads captured, so I decided to use the close mics exclusively... If you'd like to give it a shot, I duplicated the overheads and inverted the polarity on the copy. Then you put a gate on the copy, and trigger it to open very briefly when the snare plays. You have to fiddle with the timing and the range control, but when you get it just right, the snare in the overhead mics gets completely masked by the close mics, so you can really lay the processing on it to improve the sound without any phase difficulties, and any affect on the cymbals will be very brief and masked so as to be unnoticed.
If I go back into this one, I'll maybe try a pultec emulation to give the snare some body... I'm skeptical that a sample would work transparently in this case. It's a little thin, but I like a nice wet gated verb on a snare for ballads
.For me, the snare close mics sound considerably better than what the overheads captured, so I decided to use the close mics exclusively... If you'd like to give it a shot, I duplicated the overheads and inverted the polarity on the copy. Then you put a gate on the copy, and trigger it to open very briefly when the snare plays. You have to fiddle with the timing and the range control, but when you get it just right, the snare in the overhead mics gets completely masked by the close mics, so you can really lay the processing on it to improve the sound without any phase difficulties, and any affect on the cymbals will be very brief and masked so as to be unnoticed.
If I go back into this one, I'll maybe try a pultec emulation to give the snare some body... I'm skeptical that a sample would work transparently in this case. It's a little thin, but I like a nice wet gated verb on a snare for ballads
I'm grateful for comments and suggestions. Thank you for listening!