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.
Floor topm eq.
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.
Mixing toms eq goes first start with a high pass filter and cut the low low end.
Sweep along the lower frequencies with a wide bell curve or a shelving boost until you find the frequency that compliments the tom.
50hz to 100hz is a good start.
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Tom big four quick eq chart.
Floor toms sound full when boosted at lower frequencies at 80 รถ 100 hz for instance while smaller toms need boosting at closer to 250 hz.
The floor tom is one of the most difficult drums to equalize because if we are not careful it can end up sounding like a basketballs instead of a very powerful drum but here s an eq approach that you can take to really make it sound great so once again our floor tom sound different but if it doesn t sound really good in the room it s not going to sound good regardless of how much eq you add so the real trick here is add just enough eq to make it sound a whole lot better.
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.
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This is a great use for gating.
Sweep around until you find the sweet spot to boost.
You can adjust your filter depending on how the tom was recorded and how fat the tom is the floor tom is the fattest.
Sprinkle with highs similarly add the attack by boosting from between 5 khz and 7 khz depending on the size of the tom.
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