How To Mix Toms - A Simple Guide

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  • čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
  • Joey shows you how to get awesome sounding toms in any mix. What's your approach to mixing toms? Let us know in the comments!
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    0:00 Introduction
    0:27 Intent
    0:57 Clean up
    2:47 EQ
    6:03 Dynamics
    7:09 Ambience
    7:55 Recap
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Komentáře • 48

  • @samukaguitar3158
    @samukaguitar3158 Před 2 lety +16

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

  • @aleksandarmatovic8794
    @aleksandarmatovic8794 Před 2 lety

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

  • @NikolajChristensen
    @NikolajChristensen Před 2 lety +5

    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.

  • @christopherbrown3393
    @christopherbrown3393 Před rokem

    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!

  • @arnodesogus3540
    @arnodesogus3540 Před 2 lety +2

    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.

  • @snapascrew
    @snapascrew Před 2 lety +7

    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.

  • @michaelmilano2998
    @michaelmilano2998 Před 2 lety +5

    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!

  • @martinherrera7991
    @martinherrera7991 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @immanuelhunte5904
    @immanuelhunte5904 Před 2 lety

    This video cleared up some stuff for me. Thanks!

  • @FilipeCanadas
    @FilipeCanadas Před 2 lety

    golden tips with JST 🤩 You're the best

  • @patrickcaelan
    @patrickcaelan Před 2 lety

    thank you for this!

  • @immanuelhunte5904
    @immanuelhunte5904 Před 2 lety +2

    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.

  • @MartinvonBargen
    @MartinvonBargen Před 2 lety

    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.

  • @brooksbohmbach1
    @brooksbohmbach1 Před 2 lety

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

  • @XRaym
    @XRaym Před 2 lety

    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.

  • @thomaskeyte34
    @thomaskeyte34 Před 2 lety +1

    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!!

  • @Innerslaught
    @Innerslaught Před 2 lety

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

  • @thegroove2000
    @thegroove2000 Před 2 lety

    Nice.

  • @corestudio9799
    @corestudio9799 Před 2 lety

    nice video

  • @worstenbroodjes429
    @worstenbroodjes429 Před rokem +1

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

    • @tommy9951
      @tommy9951 Před 11 měsíci

      That is such a great idea 🙌🏼

  • @boristubeti6776
    @boristubeti6776 Před 2 lety

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

  • @JonoTheVoiceofAustralia

    All the groove be in the good old Tom's

  • @Aiden.com_
    @Aiden.com_ Před 2 měsíci

    really great quality, and incredibly precise! thanks!

  • @suniso370
    @suniso370 Před 2 lety +1

    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.

  • @artjemiy6546
    @artjemiy6546 Před 2 lety +1

    What theme do you use for reaper?

  • @gh0ul.nin9
    @gh0ul.nin9 Před měsícem

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

  • @zelim9367
    @zelim9367 Před rokem

    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?

  • @RudalPL
    @RudalPL Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @BrofUJu
    @BrofUJu Před 2 lety +2

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

    • @devinxharper
      @devinxharper Před 2 lety +1

      Yep. Every single drum mix. I'll even go so far as to sidechain individual bands across the kit as needed.

    • @BrofUJu
      @BrofUJu Před 2 lety

      @@devinxharper that's killer. What plugin do you use? I've been doing the MCDSP multiband. I also like multiband compressing them too especially on the bus to contain low end boom

    • @enzojacobsen4349
      @enzojacobsen4349 Před 2 lety +1

      Yup. AIXDSP Multiband Gate

  • @stevewoodyt
    @stevewoodyt Před 4 měsíci

    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.

  • @bfitbsane4364
    @bfitbsane4364 Před rokem

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

  • @kennyanator
    @kennyanator Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @JJDrummer757
    @JJDrummer757 Před rokem

    Which Reaper theme is this?

  • @JSchellergJ
    @JSchellergJ Před 2 lety

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

  • @riotska
    @riotska Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @NikolajChristensen
      @NikolajChristensen Před 2 lety

      Yeah. Joey has been using that for probably around 30 years by now.

    • @AdamShepard
      @AdamShepard Před 2 lety +2

      @@NikolajChristensen joey has been using drumagog for thousands of years

    • @alrecks619
      @alrecks619 Před 2 lety +1

      if it ain't broke, don't fix it, i guess.