How To Mix Toms - A Simple Guide 

Amazing video. Well-mixed toms make all the difference in a song, and few people talk about them.

Man just did the best tom mixing video on yt so casually, great

Good stuff! What I like about these videos is that they are condensed and you still explain the topics so well. It is always a great guide with the most important things and with some cool tips. Keep up the great work. You make mixing easier than it's supposed to be.

I've watched so many mix trick/tutorial videos over the years and this was so we'll done, to the point and easy to follow. Great job!

My favorite trick is I always record single shots of the kit for each song I record. Short tom fills in my experience have the most cymbal bleed, so replacing the close mic sign with the single shot allows me more control, without worrying about cymbal bleed, and still sounding natural!

This video is easily as good as Nolly's Toms masterclass, and pretty much says the same things which is comforting. They are both amazing. The greatest impact for my mixes is the tom bus clipping/limiting. Really allows you to hear the body without the attack getting too prevalent. My tip would be to not mix the toms too wide. Often never pan beyond -20/20 - even for 5 toms.

I honestly find that using the fundamental for the gate key sidechain not to be the best idea because the Tom’s usually sing constantly at that note even when other Tom’s or snare is hit. I came up with the idea of using the boxy 400hz ish area as the gate key instead since there’s plenty of that in the Tom’s but it doesn’t really “sing” there and false trigger the gate. It’s been working good for me but I guess if your toms are super dead the fundamental works well too.

I have been using Slate Digital Trigger just for the gate and leakage suppression features....it really works! But I also edit manually as well.

I usually like to cut the toms and fade the cymbals out with an audiosweet eq at 1k. Then a typical chain might be fabfilter eq3 to cut, Sound toys EQ to boost, 160 or whatever @4:1, fab filter Saturn saturating everything above 1k, decapitator if you wanna f them up a bit, fab filter eq again coz why not. Send to reverb and the ride the faders Great video!!

Tuning to match the OH’s. I love these eye openers!

golden tips with JST 🤩 You're the best

I'll be coming back to this for sure. I always struggle with the gulf between how my own SD3 toms sound and what the 'perfect' death metal toms should sound like.

I use dynamic eq to boost the high freqs on the shell hits without boosting the cymbals after

Here's my trick for cleaning up live toms that suffer from cymbal bleed: Since the only high frequency information is in the transient of the tom hit, it's safe to severely low pass the tail part. I also use Reaper and I split the tail part and use take fx with eq on it, then crossfade just after the transient.

Hey JST! BIG thanks for sharing this useful mixing stuff. I've learned a lot from your videos.🤘🤘🤘

This video cleared up some stuff for me. Thanks!

My recent favorite approach for toms was to use pan. Putting one left and the other to the right

My go to for drum is Drumflex :) I also like Saturate as clipper as it nicely preserve details. For gating, there is more advanced stuff like Oxford Drum Gate.

thank you for this!

All the groove be in the good old Tom's

could you do something like this for programmed drums one day maybe?

I’m realizing more and more by putting stuff like this on while I do other stuff that air pods pro are not that great.

Could you make a guide for live drum mixing? I have a Soundcraft Ui24r. Thank you 🙏🏻

What theme do you use for reaper?

Nice.

what if the drums are a kontakt instrument? do you have to split the different drums and cymbals to different midi tracks to have different mixing on each part of the drumset?

Any word on how to treat room mikes instead of adding reverb?

Anyone used multiband gating on toms? One to let more low end sustain, one to cut out the high end and cymbal bleed?

That’s funny I was actually listening to messy and came here to see what Joey did on Toms

nice video

Anyone know who the artists are in these videos? songs sound great

Which Reaper theme is this?

really great quality, and incredibly precise! thanks!

Joey, you are ridiculous man. In a good way of course. The ton of knowledge you give is absurd. Keep the good work up

...rofl... Drumagog...?