Tom Editing

[beechstudio]

Or you can build your own triggers. Its easy and cheap..............

 

[Wadi]

Or you can build your own triggers. Its easy and cheap..............

Yeah I built myself a trigger head and it works better than the ddrums I have, IMO.

 

[~BURNY~]

How?

 

[Matt Smith]

Well I'll be darned, maybe that's why I've had such a hard time getting kicks to trigger correctly. I've been using the red shots.
Live and learn.

Thanks for the great suggestions and help, everyone.

 

[Ermz]

Sorry to break the flow of the thread, but is there perhaps any links you guys can forward to me that explain how triggers function etc.?

I've always been a bit 50/50 on that.

 

[egan.]

i always record clean hit's from the toms at the top of a session.. every other piece of the kit as well for that matter... and i'll just replace the last hit. this lets you have the full tom decay (or control it as you like with a fade) with worry of a crash or hat just killing it. i don't to eq for the simple reason that it's just way too easy to kill the top end of the topms when trying to get rid of cymbals...

This is one of the best tips I've heard in a long time.

 

[James Murphy]

This is one of the best tips I've heard in a long time.

there were some bad typos in that post.. here's the corrected version:

i always record clean hit's from the toms at the top of a session.. every other piece of the kit as well for that matter... and i'll just replace the last hit. this lets you have the full tom decay (or control it as you like with a fade) without the worry of a crash or hat just killing it. i don't try to eq the cymbal bleed out for the simple reason that it's just way too easy to kill the top end of the toms when trying to get rid of cymbals...

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

When you're recording the clean hits for the toms do you just use the one tom mic or do you let a little of the overheads in as well?