I think overheads are giving the drums a kind of room, because they are more far away than a snare mic for example.. Usually the cymbals are more present on these mic. In my opinion, how to treat them is individually. Sometimes I boost a little high freq. here, but not always.

So is it suppose to kinda be like reverb?

Hey @sydney west , If you think of the drum kit as one instrument, the overheads are usually a LR pair right above the kit to capture the entire performance. One technique is to use those mics as the foundation and then use all the closed mics to embellish and build the sounds of the drum kit. Typically mixers will bus all the drum mics together, and use compression and saturation to glue everything together.

Mixing live drums is hard and for me one of the most satisfying parts of mixing. When the drums start to come to life in the mix is one of my favourite parts of the process.

@Mark Milbourne ok so the overhead is like a reference track but only for the drums?

As it’s a stereo channel, check the phase. I generally solo the channel and eq it till it sounds ok on it’s own. I find that a useful place to start.

Mark Milbourne gave the right advice. But I 'm afraid that in this particular project there are much more problems than just mixing the drum kit )