Micing Floor Tom With 421

Start with a high pass filter and cut the low low end.

Micing floor tom with 421. The mic should be a little higher then the top of the floor tom and lower then the cymbals. This is by a land slide my favorite floor tom mic. If you can get the drummer to raise his cymbals a bit it will help. It has five toms 8 10 and 12 tom toms and 14 and 16 floor toms.

2 the ubiquitous rock kit. Miking the mounted tom toms with one mic. These toms are suitable for jazz and not much else as they have a very distinct sound. Place a single mic a couple of inches away from the head near the rim.

Using the 421 on rack toms. Jae notes that the 441 is very similar to the 421 large diaphragm dynamic mic it s also really great on toms. 50hz to 100hz is a good start. If you are working on daw simply go in the edit window and draw out the noise between tom hits.

David bowie elton john and stevie nicks. 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. Just like the kick drum remove a pretty big portion of the 200hz to 400hz region. As well the hits are incredibly defined.

This is why some recordists gate toms while tracking or at mix to eliminate the cymbal and kick snare spill. You can adjust your filter depending on how the tom was recorded and how fat the tom is the floor tom is the fattest. One of the keys to this is to make sure both mics are the exact same distance from the center of the snare drum. The bass that it picks up is incredibly clear and gives you a great signal to work with.

This dynamic super cardioid microphone is great on many sources including vocals see. By using a condenser mic you will receive more attack and less thumping than you would with a dynamic. Mixing toms eq goes first. 1 a bebop kit with its toms tuned up high 10 tom tom and 14 floor tom.

If you have more than one floor tom you can place one mic between them or mic them individually. The standard microphone used on toms is the sennheiser md421 but you are not limited to using only this mic. The toms will also be out of phase. Some points to consider.

Floor toms are miked the same way as the mounted tom toms. Using the 421 on floor tom. For the floor tom jae selects the sennheiser md441 u.