Hi all. I'm curious if anyone has any crafty ways of balancing the amplitude of percussive string slaps with the actual guitar music when recording. They are typically broadband (100 to 10000Hz). If I overdampen the higher freqs, then the recording gets a "tunnel" sound to it which is unappealing. Adding reverb works decently to spread the amplitude of each slap out over time and allow dB compensation of the rest of the music before saturating the range, but this adds a splash effect to each percussive element.
I record with only one microphone right now. But even with multiple mics, I don't see how I'd be able to position anything to differentially dampen out that particular element.
So, I'm curious what do other people tend to do toward this issue?
Here is an example of what I'm talking about (you can hear the splash and the relative loudness of the slaps).
https://youtu.be/LiC0Z4vemyI