How To EQ Toms - Drum Mixing Tutorial - Live and Studio Drum Mixing - Shown on the X32 M32 and XR18

How to EQ and mix drums (toms, tom toms, rack drums, floor toms) for live and studio band mixes. Examples are shown on the Behringer X32 and XR18 platform (also applicable to the Midas M32 and Midas MR18).
Equalization is an important step in getting a good, fat, solid drum sound and blending your individual drums with the entire drum kit, and the band itself.
Drum microphones and mic positioning are discussed as well as EQ concepts and properly using the high pass filter (HPF)/low cut.
These drum mixing tips and tricks, and techniques, are applicable to any mixing console, but are shown on the Behringer digital audio consoles.

The X32 surface and XR18 X-Air Edit software are shown in the examples.

Video summary: Drum mixing techniques for analog and digital mixing consoles. Drum and live audio tutorial for techs, cover bands, corporate bands, praise and worship bands, touring bands, drummers, churches, clubs, auditoriums, etc.. Particularly aimed at live sound mixing, but with information for studio uses as well.

This video is part of a drum mixing series on the channel that includes a kick drum EQ video, a snare drum video, and a reverb tutorial.
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Five Tips For Better Live Vocal Mixes:

5 Typical Mistakes Behringer X32 and Midas M32 Users Make:

5 Typical Mistakes Behringer XR18 and Midas MR18 Users Make:

How To Use The Behringer Combinator:

How To Ring Out Monitors:

How To EQ A Snare Drum:

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0:00 Intro
0:07 General Mic'ing Info
0:24 Starting Drum Soundcheck
2:02 EQ Considerations
2:36 EQ Terms Overview
3:10 EQ Examples
6:45 Comparisons
7:40 Other Info and Links

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[AlanHamiltonAudio]

This week's video is another entry for the drum mixing series. There have been several requests for one on EQing toms, so that's what this one is. Here is a link to the Drum Mixing Playlist with the other videos:
I did the demonstration section of this video a bit differently so I don't think there's a need in doing a "Narration Free" companion version of this like I did for the snare and kick unless people want one. Comments, suggestions, and questions always welcome.
Feel free to share the link on social media. Thanks for watching! :)

Patreon Page:


Amazon Affiliate Links-
Sennheiser E604 Drum Mic on Amazon:

Shure Drum Mic Kit on Amazon:

Shure SM57 on Amazon:

LP Claw Drum Mic Clamp on Amazon:

Suggested videos:
Five Tips For Better Live Vocal Mixes:

5 Typical Mistakes Behringer X32 and Midas M32 Users Make:

5 Typical Mistakes Behringer XR18 and Midas MR18 Users Make:

How To Use The Behringer Combinator:

How To Ring Out Monitors:

How To EQ A Snare Drum:

[prschaffrin]

Great video! Just a suggestion - if you turn RTA on in the EQ settings you can see where your frequencies are for your tom

[a.h.d.h.]

I'm practically a newbee in the "mixing world" but I learn a lot from your video's. You just don't tell a lot, you show your knowledge and skills by not only visually demonstrate but also let us hear what's going on when a feature of the mixer is being applied. That's why I like your video's so much too and subscribed months ago! Thank you for your efforts! Keep up your good work! (By the way: Had no issues playing this video on my Windows 10 desktop)

[mikepinaud]

Slowly getting there with the xr18
You videos are helping me so much
Thanks bro and keep up the amazing work !

[DJENERGY]

Very spot on for a drummer like me who record drums which I do know how to eq compress add efx and mix this Is very helpful and makes sense then other tutorials not doing It right

[michaelboyer]

Thanks for another relevant and useful tutorial. It's been added to my EQ cheat sheet. I second the tutorial/video on overheads and hats. Cheers!

[MrRyancangri]

Great job bro, those toms sound beautiful!!!

[AlanHamiltonAudio]

Hopefully this video is playing OK for everyone now. There seemed to be an issue when played on the desktop for the first couple of days. At least I was seeing an issue with it stalling on ads and needing additional play pushes, and then none of the links or the subscribe watermark were showing up. But I contacted YT and either they fixed it, or it sorted itself out. It seems to be fine now (as of last night and now again today). LMK if anyone else is having issues.

[danjensen]

Hi Alan. Do have a video on how to eq overheads? Love your channel, learning alot. Thanks for doing this.

[RnBDSidestreetBandfamily]

Alan, Make also a video, how to EQ overhead n hihat. Thank you.

[torrancejackson]

Where can I find the audio files to play with the EQ?

[billytremoloband]

New sub here, I’m looking at getting either a Midas mr18 or berhinger xr18, these videos are great! Which mixer would you recommend? It’s for potential live use if we ever manage to get back gigging again ....!

[djbassick]

Do you recommend using a gate or expander for drums? Our church doesn’t have a mix engineer. Pretty much set and forget so I’m leery to engage them.

[Gladingson]

do u have a separate videos for Eq for vocals n instruments ?

[davidpound]

Allen are the drums you are using electric? They sound like the Alesis Strike samlpes
DJ

[greenpea]

Great video. This is how I EQ live drums and it works. I have a quick question. Do you gate your drums when you set up for live sound first and then EQ or do you do that after EQ? I personally don't know if it makes a difference if one is before the other or not. I'm curious what your thoughts are. Thank you in advance.

[BjorgenEatinger]

Any reason why you don't eliminate the ringing from the rack tom?

[unitygospel]

T2 is the floor tom
And T1 is for rack Tom ?