Originally Posted By: jcspro40
Each mic picks up the sound of other drums & cymbals. If you start trying to just extract each sound out a stereo file & then rebuild the track on separate ones, it will sound funny & disconnected...try it and see.

As others have mentioned, if you open up the RealDrum tracks, there are a series of isolated hits at the end. Not a terribly extensive collection - only a single velocity per hit - but it'll do in a pinch.

I was mixing a track last week that had a 6/8 RealDrum track. The feel was perfect... But the drummer wouldn't let up on the cymbals, and I needed something a bit less overblown on the verses.

I couldn't find anything comparable in my MIDI drum library, and didn't really feel like playing the track in by hand. I ended up grabbing the samples from the end of the RealDrum track and putting together a new performance in my DAW, using the original track as a guide.

I'm sure that a drummer would hear the difference in a moment. Fortunately, drummers weren't the target audience. wink

Because I used the isolated hits from the end of the track, I didn't end up with the bleed you're talking about, and the track matched the other sections.

But it would have been so much easier with multitrack drums... Just turn down the cymbals, and live with a bit of microphone bleed.

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?