I am trying to work on an MMW show that I recorded recently. During the first set, I was clamped to the stage lip, DFC, which ended up being almost directly in front of Billy's drum kit, and closest to the cow bells. I moved the setup to the right for the second set, which made things much more balanced, also due to the fact that Medeski was playing in a virtual horseshoe of keyboards, each apparantly with its own amp, pointing in at him.
In any case, in order to fix the first set, I need to bring down some of the percussion hits that cause a lot of spikes in the waveform. They are so fast, that the compressor in SF8 does not seem able to capture and lower them. Any ideas? I have done a lot of hand editing with the pencil function, but I would like to figure out whether there is some easier way to deal with these. TIA