How to get rid of bleeding on percussion instruments

One solution is to move both sides timing wise during the timing adjustments.

The other is to perhaps try a downward expander on both sides. If you have close miked each side then the ratio of the drum near the mike to the bleed will be pretty high. You may with some fiddling get just the up close sound through and not let bleed through as it closed down gain wise in between hits. You need to adjust for natural sounding hits as well. eg release settings etc.

Then you could try adding a nice tight sounding convolution drum room just to add some ambience and hide any artifcats of the downward expander nicely.

Thanks for the replies.

@Jeff Evans. Can you explain more about the downward expander you were talking about? I don't really understand what you were trying to say.

@Mike Mccue. I think I will try it out. I am using audiosnap to fix the timing. If I understood it correctly, I will bounce both the tracks into one stereo tracks, it should be easier to fix the timing of the drums without having to worry about the bleed from each track syncing with the original track.