snare VS OH

Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 8:07 am

niclaus wrote:

Hello!

i do have to mix this project where the OH tracks are really lacking snare...
Well, there is none of it in there...
The problem is i can't get the snare to fit with the rest, it's always in front of everything...

I tried EQs, comp, reverb,... but it still up infront of everything...

Has anybody ever dealt with that kind of problem???

thanks for your help.

Rob.

Are you sayingthere was a snare mic used and the sound doesn't fit?

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 6:51 am

Maybe the recordist who engineered the tracking process used high pass filters on the overheads before hitting the tape. Or maybe the drummer put something (towels) over the cymbals and recorded drums and cymbals seperately... some people have been known to do that. Or maybe he did use the high pass on the overheads, and super gated everything else. I vote for Drumagog with a semi dense room verb set to 100% wet as a backing track for the snare batter. Either that or mess with some frequency selective stereo expansion (Ozone?) and see if you can bring the rest of the kit out.

Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 4:11 pm

I seriously think EQ and verb (compression too) could do the trick (unless the snare just plain ol' sounds bad). Without audio examples, its tough to get a real idea of what we are dealing with. If the snare sounds out of place and too forward, perhaps dropping the mids (450-750) down a few dB, or perhaps take a fairly wide Q and sweep a mild cut across the band to see if you find any favorable results? (Try cutting first always!!!!)

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