Another superior job Rami!
Not to derail but I am just starting to track drums, despite my pitiful playing, and I really like the way your toms sound. Are you muffling the resonant heads at all? Do you have a thread elsewhere describing you set-up for tracking, including how you prep your kit? I see you are miking you toms now which I won't be doing, but my toms just ring out too much for a good recorded sound. Last question is, though I've replaced all the batter heads and they tune up nicely, but the resonant heads are way old - probably original to the kit from late 1970s!! Will new resonant heads help me out?
Again, maybe should have PM'd you but wanted to refer to the sound of the toms on this tune.
Hey Magoo. It's all good, we can talk about this here.
OK, yeah. You don't need to change the resonant heads as often as the top heads, but 45 years might be pushing it.
Depending how often you play, I'd say that you should change your bottom heads once for every 3 times you change your top heads, more or less.
I personally don't put any dampening, no Kotex, wallets, Gorilla Snot, Moon gel or anything else on my toms. If you find they ring too much, try thicker or even hydraulic skins on the top. Personally, I've always used Remo Pinstripes on top and clear Remo Ambassadors on the bottom. I know a lot of guys, like GregL, prefer Evans, so he can probably help with which ones he uses.
If you're not going to mic your toms, which I only started doing recently, you can still get a good sound, depending on the type of music you play. One trick I used to do was I'd copy my overhead tracks on new tracks, and then go through and cut out everything but the toms. So I ended up with a "pseudo" tom track that I could EQ and process however I wanted. It sounds like a long, tedious process, but when you think of it, you're really only hitting your toms a few times a song, unless you're doing some kind of jungle beat. I found I needed to do that to get my toms to not sound wimpy with the Glyn Johns set up. But now that I mic them, I'd never turn back.
I hope that helps. If you ever any other questions, fire away.