Floor tom mic shootout drum.
Floor tom technique.
If you use two mics place one above each drum about 1 to 3 inches above.
For the mounted toms the ones above the kick drum you can use one or two mics.
This is the low end rumble and resonance of the drum.
Sand from one end of the room to the other pushing the sander along in a straight line and reversing your direction each time you reach the opposite wall.
Cut the boxy frequencies until you hear your toms getting thicker.
G1 clear no muff mics.
Add the lows add more lows to get a thicker tom sound.
An extended version of this technique that i use often is to position the 2nd overhead equidistant to the snare and kick.
If you use one mic place it between the two drums about 4 to 6 inches away from the heads figure 3 shows this placement option.
Depending on the size of the drum there are different frequencies involved.
The higher rack toms do not rely on as much thump but the floor toms and more resonant rack toms will.
Sand the entire floor.
This can also be problematic if the toms take up too much room and make it difficult to fit them into the track among the other instruments.
Toms often help determine the sound of a record.
Thump is an important quality for all of the drums and the toms are no different.
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The tom toms sound best when using a dynamic mic.
Once the compound is dry make another sweep with your electric sander to shave down slight differences in the height of the subfloor and even out rough patches.
Exercise 2 is basically the previous drum beat with extra 16th notes on the ah of counts 2 and 4.
Big floor toms have a fuller sound around 80 100 hz but smaller toms might need to be boosted even higher around 100 200 hz.
This exercise is a great way of showing you how to come up with tom tom drum beats by just moving ride patterns from the hi hat ride to the toms.
If they are big the record results in a big sound.
Place the mic 2 or 3 inches over the head and above the.
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Moon gels you can add more moon gels per drum for a damper sound i use 3 or 4 on my floor toms.
Moon gels are 7 99 for a 6 pack.
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After getting the main overhead sounding good take a mic cable hold one end to the center of the snare and bring it up to the grille of the main overhead then loop the excess cable back to the kick beater.
You can use the beater to hold the 2nd cable end for convenience.
Toms suffering from a lack of low end thump can be augmented in the 100 250hz range.
