The Tom EQ Trick | Four Simple EQ Moves for Massive Drum Tones 

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Very similar EQ principles, kick is just lower.

It's probably a tuning issue. Many drummers don't really know how to tune drums, and there's a huge difference between poorly tuned toms and well tuned toms.

@@GreenLightSound Unfortunately, I’m afraid you’re absolutely right. We also had a lot of issues with the floor tom. It would spill to the kick. We had to eventually use a trick some drummers use. Cotton balls inside. It solved it. We tried different tunings on the toms, to get a similar sound to yours, but the drummer didn’t like it, so we just gave up on that. Sometimes I guess people just need to hear what their recorded instrument sounds like before we can change their minds.

@@DanielPestanaTranslations Top EQ tip - change the drummer. Mid scoop has ass outa there.

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In most cases that's good advice. But here, we're trying to manipulate the tone of each tom. If you find conflicting frequencies later in the mix, you can always add another EQ to carve out space in the context of the full mix.

No that's never a good idea to eq in solo whatever you do except doing notch filtering for resonances not broad boost and also I mean that tom and kick sound okay after eq but that broad cut is just not focused enough I think 90% of the time I prefer to do quite the opposite to cut with tighter Q and really cut what cause that mud in the sound and boost usually with wider Q to make it sound more natural. Also doing too much boost at higher midrange around 3-4KHz will take up space where the vocals are most present and will create problems there possible harshness if it builds up there so with drums I'm careful around that region and much prefer and like the sound of shaping low end, low mids and boosting top end for snare for example around 6-7KHz and 10-12KHz to give it that energy and bite and don't usually go below 4KHz. But if this works for you great I just found out this to be less of a chasing your own tail later on when you add vocals, quitars, etc which all live in the midrange and build up there can create harshness very quickly.