Hello I am new here so hopefully I am complying with all the rules and really am looking for some helpful feedback.
So I am recording my band's second EP and the first with live drums so it's very challenging I must say. I only have access to 4 mic inputs to mic the drums so I have two condenser mics as over heads spaced apart one about 3 feet over the tom/crash and one about three feed over the floor tom and ride. the other two mics are an SM 57 just off center from the center of the snare and about an inch and and a half above the drum head. I have D112 inside the kick about half way and just off center from the beater.
On issue I am having is the snare mic is picking up way too much hi-hat so much so that I can't gate it out of the mix and So whenever I bring up the snare the hi-hat is right there with it which is a big issue.
Also I am recording in a rather small room and the drums overall are sounding very dead and boxy. SO I have had to resort to some much more drastic EQing than I would like to get them to sound remotely close to what I want in the mix.
Everything else in the song at this stage is all rough scratch tracks so those will sound pretty rough and bad and will be replaced, but I am just asking for some drum miking, EQ, mixing advice based on what you hear in this track. Mind you, the drums have been eq'd to get closer to what I am looking for but I want to try to not have to do as much eqing to achieve this goal.
Index of /mp3
It is the only file on the page. It is titled "Moon & Sun".
Thanks in advance for any and all replies.
Mark Strong