soundguyTechA2

thank you gentlemen. i'll have them try a couple of these.

Hey guys I am asking for a friend who is a lyricist and whose musician partner is in another band with a mic bleed issue. 3-piece soft rock/rock cover band playing in small clubs booked multiple nights every week. 1 drummer, 1 bass, 1 guitar. All sing. Drummer is the lead singer and sings backup also. recently started using Crown CM311 Headworn Condenser Mic (cardioid pattern). The guitarist does the mix on-stage for the PA and due to the acoustical drum kit's snare bleeding into the CM311 headset mic the drummer is lower in the mix. The other band members are higher in the mix when they sing. Other drummer vocal mics had more bleed apparently. Drummer is "using a very thick snare drum head that also has low frequency. On top of playing softer when needed" "playing with customized cymbals that are lower in volume, have shorter sustain and very low frequency than any average cymbal" "running his [vocal] microphone through a compressor that bring his levels down when he is projecting more" Only the kick drum is mic'd and goes to the PA. The drummer also owns a Roland or Yamaha electronic drum kit. The band are all on in-ear monitors and each band member can make their own mix. Letting the guitarist be in charge of the PA on the stage and control the lead vocalists volume is the main issue I see but band politics aside and solutions I can suggest are: 1. Have the drummer try their own Roland/Yamaha electronic drum kit for the snare only and add an input to the mixing console for a the drum sound module. 2. While still using the acoustic snare mic it and add the snare to the in-ears mix of the drummer higher in the mix so the drummer plays softer? While not even using the mic'd snare in the PA mix? 3. a different recommended drummer vocal mic? After the drummer spending $450. on the new headset mic it was costly for still so much bleed of snare to drummer's vocals.