Simply panning one left by 40 and the other right by 40 can help to free up mix room.
Floor tom panning.
Lets dive straight in and take a look at some useful ways to get those toms sounding great.
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This is great for softer rock or blues.
Higher rack toms don t rely on the thump as compared to floor and resonant rack toms.
If it sounds good roll with it.
They are probably also the area of the drum kit that will give you the most grief.
If you position a great large diaphragm tube microphone over the ride and floor tom along with one tube mic as an overhead above the whole kit favoring the snare you ll get a nice rounded image.
Like with every aspect of mixing it is best to experiment and use your ears.
Lately i have been really into the sound of mono drums.
Toms are an interesting part of the kit that often add flare and excitement to a drum track just look at the intro to enter sandman by metallica or the fill before the chorus of africa by toto.
You can adjust your filter depending on how the tom was recorded and how fat the tom is the floor tom is the fattest.
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Start with a high pass filter and cut the low low end.
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Mixing toms eq goes first.
Tom lyons kubota rtv900 floor replacement.
Kubota rtv900 floor replacement.
However i would normally pan the highest pitched tom hard left middle pitched tom somewhere around center adjusted slightly for volume phase and the floor tom hard right.
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I try to avoid drummers that have more than a 5 piece kit and only smile when a 4 shows up.
Panning the glyn johns way.
There are no absolute rules for panning.
50hz to 100hz is a good start.
The attack brings up the rhythmic nature of the tom and makes it cut through a mix.
The table below suggests some commonly used positions.