came across this while I'm watching tutorials on BFD and a bunch of others. I can totally 'live with this' level of realism and quality lol. The snare roll articulations are remarkable imo. Maybe I've just getting tricked by excitement on my part or hype of my speakers or the video.

From a mixing perspective, there is nothing worse than a bad sounding hi-hat in a mix. In some cases, they shout such annoying freq's similar to the annoyance of a baby screaming during a romanic moment, or, 60 cycle him, AC noise, standing wave etc. etc..

Hi I work in a recording studio. Each time I record and mix a drum, I find myself spending more brain energy figuring out hout to make the drums sound as good as a sampler track without having too much hi-hat in the mix. This is sad.

I came across this idea while attending a little workshop put on by some of the heavies here in town. One engineer (the youngest, but most talented) recommended this technique during one "class".

As I recall, he put the tape on opposite side of the 57 from the hihat, along the grill side. Anyone ever heard of this?

Hello all,

Hello all,

I am currently recording a friend's project, an automated music machine, and have a question about one of the mics available.

It is a (appears to be fairly old) Coles STC4030 ribbon mic and I have had fun using it so far in Mid/Side configuration.

I just bought superior drummer 2.0 and love it! The only problem that I see is the high hats. They don't sounds realistic. Anyone have any ideas on how to make them sounds more realistic? I have Waves Renaissance for plugins. Should I just buy a high hat and record it?

I use reason sample drums and I have noticed that my hihats are really clanky and it sounds like the drummer is hitting them as hard as they can.
I want more of a hissing sound.

I know there are lots of solutions for the snare hi-hat problem - but I want to ask if anyone has tried this:

Hi guys,

this is my first topic and would like to know a good mic for the hi-hat. As you have probable heard in today's music, the hi-hat seems to be a little more enphasized in the mix (depending on the genre) and i just want to know of a good mic that will sound good close up and what placement would be good for it?