Drum in Live Recording - how to reduce volume

[benoits]

I made a wonderful live recording of a band where the microphone was placed slightly too close to the drummer. You can hear the guitars, violin, flute and other instruments but the sound of the drum is a little too loud and tends to dominate.

Is there a way, perhaps a tutorial, which could show how to somehow diminish the volume of the drumbeat?

[kozikowski]

It's difficult/almost impossible to split a mixed performance into individual instruments so to make one instrument louder or softer. The people who record a rock concert with nuclear bass notes or neighbor talking on his mobile have the same problem.

You could try Effect > Compressor. That, as a fuzzy rule, knocks down loud sounds to the advantage of softer ones. It also affects the relationship between the other instruments, so it's a juggling act.

Koz

[Trebor]

If the drum beats are louder than everything else, (brief loud peaks poking out of the envelope) they can be reduced to the same amplitude as everything else using a limiter , (which is a compressor with a very fast response time ).