Different genres have different drum eq but those two areas are universal when it comes to a good kick drum sound.
Floor tom parametric eq.
Cut the boxy frequencies until you hear your toms getting thicker.
More thump 4 at 200hz more attack 4 at 4 5khz more stick 6 at 7khz more air 2 at 10khz high shelf rack tom and floor tom drum eq recipes.
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You can adjust your filter depending on how the tom was recorded and how fat the tom is the floor tom is the fattest.
Depending on the size of the drum there are different frequencies involved.
Start with a high pass filter and cut the low low end.
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Floor tom eq from a live recording of the same artist as the sd11 screenshot.
This very precise parametric equalizer works great on every stage of production.
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.
50 100 hz boost to add low end punch beware of boosting too much though as it can clutter up the low end and get in the way of the other.
This is a great use for gating.
100 to 300 hz body.
Sample gate settings for floor tom.
Just like the kick drum remove a pretty big portion of the 200hz to 400hz region.
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Mixing toms eq goes first.
I love this plugin on stereo sources or busses too as it has a mid side feature that allows different hpf lpfs and parametric eq s on both the mid and sides.
Too much and things will sound well boomy remove too much and your toms will sound like cardboard boxes.
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This is useful say if i have a stereo keys and a guitar taking up the same range.
It can add marvelous color to the signal while maintaining the whole character of the original sound.
Depends on tuning but a good place to look for the boom of a tom sound.
Simply set the gate so that the vibrations in between hits are not heard.
Just as it sounds this is the the attack of the drum itself from a stick on its head.
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Add the lows add more lows to get a thicker tom sound.
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3 000 to 4 000 hz attack.
The happy medium in a kick drum sound is a thick bass thump from the low end combined with a driving click from the mids.
When the floor tom is mixed so that you feel it in your chest even the slightest head vibration will be amplified through the sound system as low frequency feedback.
