How To Mix Floor Toms

How to eq metal toms to sound 10x better in the mix duration.

How to mix floor toms.

Microphone comparison floor tom duration. Add the lows add more lows to get a thicker tom sound. You can adjust your filter depending on how the tom was recorded and how fat the tom is the floor tom is the fattest. Make sure your toms have enough attack to cut through the mix allowing their rhythmic nature to shine.

Start with a high pass filter and cut the low low end. Support sounds like a drum on patreon. This is the sound of the drum head itself. Depending on the size of the drum there are different frequencies involved.

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. If your tom drums are lacking thump then make a boost around 100hz 250hz. Higher rack toms don t rely on the thump as compared to floor and resonant rack toms. I d put it at about 70 left.

Cut the boxy frequencies until you hear your toms getting thicker. Just like the kick drum remove a pretty big portion of the 200hz to 400hz region. Hardcore music studio 32 098 views. The attack brings up the rhythmic nature of the tom and makes it cut through a mix making it more audible and present.

50hz to 100hz is a good start. Then the deepest tom which is probably a small floor tom that to me sounds like it s probably pretty close to the left pan out. Toms can have their attack augmented with a 4 8db boost around 3 5khz. David halada 2 960 views.