Floor Tom Miking

Otherwise use a kick drum mic.

Floor tom miking. The 604 s are great tom mics. It has five toms 8 10 and 12 tom toms and 14 and 16 floor toms. You can also get o rings or various muffling devices to reduce over ring if that is an issue for you. Floor toms are miked the same way as the mounted tom toms.

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. 3 then there s the versatile kit. If you have more than one floor tom you can place one mic between them or mic them individually. The next video is starting stop.

Miking a tom with one microphone is preferable as it has more clarity than miking with two mics having one on the bottom. 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. Place a single mic a couple of inches away from the head near the rim. With a well tuned drum you can t go wrong.

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. Even on floor tom. The quality of the drum heads and how they are tuned will greatly affect the way your toms sound. In addition to the tom sizes already mentioned there is also a 13 rack tom and an 18 floor tom.

It works well in many different styles of music including pop acoustic rock contemporary jazz latin and funk. Common tom mics are the trusty shure sm 57 or a. Stay clear of beta 98 s on the bigger toms. If using a top and bottom mic make sure to check polarity.