There seem to be people who automatically dial in certain frequencies without thinking. Remember that seeing eq, with real accurate frequency readouts is really quite new technology. Many analogue mixers had a knob that maybe said 300-1K-3K-6K-15K spread around the dial, so you kind of got into the habit of listening to say the snare, and dialling lots of boost in, and then sweeping the frequency knob till the crack kind of leapt out at you - you then went back and forth till you settled on the middle of the main snare energy - you then dialled back until it sounded good. With multi band eq, you would get to know your eq pretty well and know which one to head for first. To remove nasties - like tom rings, you'd get them to bash it and then dial in maximum cut and sweep till you found the ring. `Then you tweak and tweak and tweak.
The other thing is that every kit is different and your room will add things that maybe you want to address. I'm not good a drum balance, it's dfamn hard and although I get there - I take a long time. Live I am much better and quicker.
On Youtube there is a great video comparing Ddrums with cheap drums using excellent mics - well worth it even though it's metal thrash stuff. The guy is experienced and the drums well tuned, and while he would always be in the right ballpark with eq, he'd still have two use his ears - and that's a good skill to learn.
Please - in recording do not think there is always a certain correct way to mic and eq. Your ears will tell you what to do and you need to learn this as early as you can.
Mic technique for live tends to be much blunter - more cut, more boost, more radical eq in general. More compression, much more gating that kind of thing. In the studio it's much more gentle and controllable. Live - you might remove overlap from some instruments to clean things up - like slicing off the bottom of the overheads. In the studio, you're more interested in a starting point, then just results.
Now we do things by numbers, I find a few people who head for 328Hz, and suck out 6dB to remove a nasty ring, because that's what they ended up doing last time, and they wrote it down, or stored it. What they didn't realise was the drummer tuned his toms, and the 328Hz is now 297Hz!
Timbales because they're not very common can be tuned all over the place. If the music is genuine latin, they might be tuned quite high, but as a sort of effect in nearly latin, they might be spread even more widely. I think all newcomers should be banned from compression until they really develop an ear because compressors can be gilding the lily, but more commonly a way to squeeze all the life out of a recording.
I use Cubase if it helps.