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When it comes to recording and mixing acoustic drums in the context of modern, punchy record production, a key difficulty is sufficiently isolating individual drums for processing and beefing up. Bleed (or “spill”) is that natural tendency of a microphone placed next to say, a snare drum, to pick up adjacent instrument sounds such as kick drum and hi hat. Lots of bleed makes it difficult to tailor the tone and level of individual drums, and a crashy, harsh kit sound can result if you apply even moderate amounts of EQ. Adding some compression into the mix only makes this this situation worse.
