How To Reduce Cymbal Bleed In Floor Tom

A quick tutorial showing some methods you can use to remove or rathe reduce unwanted cymbal bleed from your recorded drums.

How to reduce cymbal bleed in floor tom.

For tom tracks with a ton of cymbal bleed don t hard gate. In this video i share a tip for splitting the attack and sustain portions of the drum hit to completely remove the. Instead use and expander or gate with an adjustable range. I pay attention to where i m placing the mics and where they are rejecting sound from the cymbals as much cymbal as possible.

When i m tracking drums i generally use audix f10 s on the toms about 1 5 3 inches away from the top of the skin. The noise floor a v 673 views. When i edit the toms even tighter and take off the cymbal bleed i loose all the decay of the tom. Drummer auditions part 2 duration.

Cymbals bleeding into your tom mics can make processing really difficult. The reaper blog 4 425 views. Also be careful of panning. Hello this is brandon with another mix minute and today we re going to use multi band gate to reduce cymbal bleed in our toms.

You ll need a parametric eq and a multiband compressor expander. Reducing cymbal bleed in tom tracks without dulling the attack duration.