Load any analogue synth with just a white noise oscillator active and tune it quite high.ĭraw in a single MIDI note for the duration of your drum track and insert a sidechainable gate plugin onto the synth’s mixer channel. If the wires on your snare drum aren’t making their presence felt strongly enough, white noise can be used to add a synthesised back-up layer. And if your overheads sound unexpectedly weird in any sense alongside the close mic channels, don’t forget to try flipping the phase. Two things to avoid with overheads, though, are overly heavy EQ boosts above 10kHz and compression (though a touch of compression can be effective for a vintage-style sound). Overhead processingĪpplying a stereo widening plugin to the overheads channel can work wonders for the sense of breadth. Key a frequency-conscious gate from the snare to emphasise the airy overhead signal with each snare hit, or compress the overheads via the kick to draw the sides in with each kick hit. A range of cool effects can be created by putting a compressor/gate on the overheads channel and keying it from the kick, snare or hi-hats.
