Snare bleed....

[Seizure.]

I'm on a friggin war with snare bleed.. if it isn't hihat its ride or china..

What do you guys do to get as little snare bleed as possible?
Hypercardoid mics?
Shielding the mic off with foam?

I'm not keen on gating snare so thats off i think...

Any piece of advice would be cool..

JB!

 

[scorpio01169]

for the most point, mic direct-tivity (i know that aint a word) that's the first thing i would do. pretty much that's it cause a little bleed aint all that bad.

 

[jwnc]

How I combat this once its recorded is duplicate the snare and then on the dup gate the crap out of it. Like 30-60 millisecond release so all you are getting it more of the pop real quick and then compress, etc and then turn down the original snare and mix this above it so you get the snare pop and the original snare is the meat but lower so the bleed is no where as apparent.

Jason

 

[beyond dead]

limiting will cut the snare transients out of overheads

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

Use the cymbals to shield the mic from the snare.

 

[gorath23]

limiting will cut the snare transients out of overheads

+1, hence why its better to limit overheads rather than compress.

 

[Seizure.]

Its not the bleed in the overheads i'm worried about hehe
And i'll try the trick with the gate, thanks!

 

[Machinated]

Expanders are really awesome at dropping the bleed a bit. Also triggering a gate works really well too.

 

[Seizure.]

gate trick worked nicely till know!
thanks!
But obviously its still better to stop this problem during tracking hehe

 

[Sinister Mephisto]

Expanders are nice in mixing. In tracking just move the hihat as high as the drummer will let you. (if he/she lets you mess with any placement, which the probably won't want to) and then point the 57 or whatever you're using at the snare, with the opposite end pointing at the hihat, so that it's rejecting the most possible. Works pretty well for me. I normally need to use and expander too though. Good luck!

 

[Daunt]

This is how I do it (see "Separation"):

http://www.faderwear.com/guides/aggressivedrums/mic_snare_drum.shtml

Then I use expander in the mix. I have heard drum tracks recorded by Mixerman and the bleed was there. So, it's never easy. Let me know if you find a better way to do it

 

[GeertSamuel]

That's why I use a trigger on the snare. Sidechain that one on the snare...and voila!