Floor Tom Miking

Place a single mic a couple of inches away from the head near the rim.

Floor tom miking.

It works well in many different styles of music including pop acoustic rock contemporary jazz latin and funk. The quality of the drum heads and how they are tuned will greatly affect the way your toms sound. Otherwise use a kick drum mic. In addition to the tom sizes already mentioned there is also a 13 rack tom and an 18 floor tom.

For jazz it is common not to use toms at all and only get the drum sound balance with accurately placed overhead mics and maybe a bass drum and snare drum mic whereas as pop and rock drum sound requires a closer miking technique to achieve very isolated tom signals to process individually. You can also get o rings or various muffling devices to reduce over ring if that is an issue for you. Often i don t get what the rider stipulates for the floor and because i list 604 s as an option for the rack toms i arrive and find there are 604 s on all the toms. Stay clear of beta 98 s on the bigger toms.

If you have more than one floor tom you can place one mic between them or mic them individually. Instrument microphone miking toms. Common tom mics are the trusty shure sm 57 or a. Even on floor tom.

Miking a tom with one microphone is preferable as it has more clarity than miking with two mics having one on the bottom. 3 then there s the versatile kit. This section covers drum miking for both rack and floor toms. With a well tuned drum you can t go wrong.

It has five toms 8 10 and 12 tom toms and 14 and 16 floor toms. If using a top and bottom mic make sure to check polarity. Both heads on the drum can usually be tuned to produce a more powerful and large sound than if you were to tune one head alone. The 604 s are great tom mics.