Is the drumming a looped synth, Real band tracks, acoustic drums or midi synth triggered drums?

I mostly work with real band tracks or at times a sampled synth. On the most recent song I have up with JC, on another more technical forum, a commenter made a comment about the cymbals sounding a bit phasey. Due to the freqs involved with cymbals, getting them to sound full and sonically correct is a job.

If you have real wooden drums and real cymbals, and a decent mic, in a treated drum room, you should be able to get clean drums and cymbals. In most cases..in my experience with samples and synths, it's kinda hard to achieve that clean cymbal sound.

With the real band tracks I use, I tend to massage the drum track with some EQ & compression to bring out the best hiding in there.

In regards to the track you posted, it was kinda hard to hear the details with all the other instruments in the mix.

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