Floor Tom Panning

The attack brings up the rhythmic nature of the tom and makes it cut through a mix.

Floor tom panning.

This is great for softer rock or blues. You can adjust your filter depending on how the tom was recorded and how fat the tom is the floor tom is the fattest. They are probably also the area of the drum kit that will give you the most grief. If it sounds good roll with it.

Simply panning one left by 40 and the other right by 40 can help to free up mix room. 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. The table below suggests some commonly used positions. Year old kubota rtv 900 had seen some better days.

Just like the kick drum remove a pretty big portion of the 200hz to 400hz region. There are no absolute rules for panning. Start with a high pass filter and cut the low low end. 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.

Mixing toms eq goes first. If your tom drums are lacking thump then make a boost around 100hz 250hz. This was my first time doing floor panels of any type and was definitely a learning experience. Higher rack toms don t rely on the thump as compared to floor and resonant rack toms.

Kubota rtv900 floor replacement. In this video i demonstrate high banking on a good claim and show how long it wou. I try to avoid drummers that have more than a 5 piece kit and only smile when a 4 shows up. 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.

Lately i have been really into the sound of mono drums. Let me show you how long it takes to sluice or high bank one ounce of gold. Katom is a supplier of all the equipment you need to build your commercial kitchen and has been a trusted name in wholesale restaurant supplies since 1987. 50hz to 100hz is a good start.

Panning the glyn johns way. Like with every aspect of mixing it is best to experiment and use your ears.