Gating toms

i kind of decided that for demo's i set up a gate on the toms and for oficial releases i manually erase and fade. i don't have problems with false opening on the gates often, mostly gated sounds fine, only you sometimes get some cymbal noise with the toms when the gates open, when it's too much i make a multisampled triggered channel of the toms and use that channel instead of the origional.
 
i've tried editing by hand, but sometimes i find a bigass cymbal hit ringing through the tom hit and it sounds really unnatural to have them just appear and then fade out with the tom. i've tried going and using an earlier tom hit in place, kind of like using a sample, but it didn't sound right. i meant to get some samples of the kit, but forgot to do it. damn.