Audacity Forum

My FIRST and obvious test would be to replace the Beta 56a with a dynamic. I'm guessing the interference you hear stems from an interaction between capsule and electronics.

You can't overload the dynamic mics that are typically used for drums, like the AKGD12 or D112, the Senn DM21 or 421. So they'll never produce interference like that.

But I'll readily admit I never record rock drums

A sizable chunk of this thread seems to concentrate on possible prevention. Live recording of drums especially on a venue's stage is fraught with compromises based as much on room/stage acoustics and time available to finesse the setup as equipment used... a conversation perhaps best had in recording forums.

This thread was started, however, to deal with post-production. Correcting or masking problems already captured in the recording.

As it's turned out, the "under-snare" mic recording is unusable - it's just all snare rattle, even when not being played (the bass amp was only a metre away) and the overheard drum mics sound awful - full of vocal foldback, guitar and electric bass. I've had som success gating the toms (and manually editing the 2% it couldn't remove) but while the gated bass drum got rid of stage spill (foldback, guitar, bass as well as most drums) it sounds awfull and compression and EQ aren't saving it.

Hindsight is always 20-20. I'm just trying to get rid of as much rough edges as possible to create something that's listenable.
Thanks.