i must mention, i have tried countless times to get a nice tight tom and flr tom sound out of miking kick, snare and 2 OHd. and i have to mention, theres no way to get it. glad you mentioned deftones drummer. very tight isolated tom sounds that stand out just right above the rest of the set and the other instruments in the recording. if you want to gain that nice isolated tom sound that cuts through the rest of the set's noise and stands out above the surrounding instruments, i couldn;t tell you how to do it, but i can tell you that you will never achieve that sound without miking each tom individually. if you can manage to get those overheads to grab those toms nice and clear and tight, your cymbals will be blowing your ears out and ruining the rest of the recording. i wish i had something other than pecemism over the idea of using only 2 OHs, but i too have been searching for a good sound with un-exceptional luck. i could be talking out of my ass and just haven;t been doing it right, but i've tried too many different techniques and settings to have just missed the right way to do it. if there is a right way of doing it, i'm sure i stumbled upon it at one point or another and wasn;t satisfied. toms like to linger behind everything else, even when their miked individually, and when you place other instruments into the recording, you'll notice that the bass and snare will be cutting through, and your cymbals may sound ok, but the toms get lost under the surrounding instruments. hence making things sound like your toms arn;t miked and everything else is. i too would like to know how the best of the best get their toms and cymbals to sound perfect against the surrounding instruments in a recording, i have trouble with it even when miking all toms individually. it's a pain in the ass. the snare likes to kill me when working with overheads too. but i think thats cuz i can;t get my snare to tune right or sound good in the first place.
if i AM missing the right way of doing it, please show me, lol.
