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.
Floor tom parametric eq.
Depends on tuning but a good place to look for the boom of a tom sound.
Just as it sounds this is the the attack of the drum itself from a stick on its head.
Mixing toms eq goes first.
Igs iq equalizer is a modern application of the noble sound of analog equalizers.
Add the lows add more lows to get a thicker tom sound.
You can bring out some extra air on the tom tracks by using a high shelf of 2 3db starting in the 5 12khz range.
Tom big four quick eq chart.
This is useful say if i have a stereo keys and a guitar taking up the same range.
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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.
Start with a high pass filter and cut the low low end.
Simply set the gate so that the vibrations in between hits are not heard.
Just like the kick drum remove a pretty big portion of the 200hz to 400hz region.
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.
Different genres have different drum eq but those two areas are universal when it comes to a good kick drum sound.
This is a great use for gating.
3 000 to 4 000 hz attack.
Drum mixing eq compression and gate expander by ross stratton from mike lee band duration.
50hz to 100hz is a good start.
Sample gate settings for floor tom.
Depending on the size of the drum there are different frequencies involved.
Too much and things will sound well boomy remove too much and your toms will sound like cardboard boxes.
It can add marvelous color to the signal while maintaining the whole character of the original sound.
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.
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This very precise parametric equalizer works great on every stage of production.
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.
100 to 300 hz body.
Cut the boxy frequencies until you hear your toms getting thicker.