Hope this is the right place to ask.

As the title says. I'm curious because I find myself never using them unless they're acoustic style toms. Even then, rarely. I have folders of drum machine/analog/electronic style Tom's that never get used.

 

I'm terrified someone might think I still have an old Simmons kit.

 

It all depends on where the inspiration leads me, and the feel of the track. 808 toms, acoustic toms, hybrid layered, etc. I sprinkle them all over my EDM productions

 

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who would want one of those kits... ehhh.... just get some samples... or maybe the brain only

I always use toms if there is a fill.... but then I'm old school like dat..

 

Same here. Using them all the times, nothing makes me more satisfied than good old heavy toms to trigger a main part of the arrangement

 

Do I ever use Tom's WHAT?

I'm almost scared to ask!


Sorry, yes, I do use toms, but not in the conversional sense. When a drummer uses a real kit, he or she will give a blast of the toms to signify the end of a pattern for example. I sometimes use them maybe just before or after a kick, but at very low volume, then play that as part of the beat.

 

Sometimes, it depends if I want the sound of a Tom. Sometimes I replace toms with 303 tones, sometimes L/M/H is enough or just messing with some pitch automation gives me what I want.

I never use Uncle Toms though, sell outs.

 

Only in Synthwave, never ever in Hip-Hop

 

Mostly ironically. I kinda hate toms, rly. Low tom esp!

 

Thanks for your input. It appears, as of now, 273 took a look but few voted for whatever reason.

By the way, Simmons kit rocks! Gotta use it one day.

 

Toms @3:16 Perhaps one of the most recognizable tom fills ever

 

Philip Seymour Collins. One of the reasons that toms have been ruined for me ;__; and for music, irrevocably. I may have laid that on a little thick. Much liek lil Philly does. OMG teh Philip twin-shame.

 

there are genres (electronic still) that almost need a tom to make sense, footwork/juke for example. that raw power;

 

Toms dont exist in reality, its a fake EDM instrument, have you ever seen a real drum kit with toms?
Phil Collins tour kit.

 

Man, i thought you had style.

 

Dinner

 

probably more a personal question for yourself and others because toms are and have been used in many styles of electronic music.. even willing to bet if we don't right put here them they may have been layered and mixed in there. personally I don't like toms myself so I never use them for anything... they just remind me of the 80s when 808 and 909 and every other vintage drum machine was king.. I can appreciate them when used but I just don't like em myself...

 

Electronic music includes many specific genres.
In techno music, for example, low frequency toms are very much used for basslines. In some cases, they are the basis of everything.
One of the most significant examples is that of Magda (my favorite dj/producer), she uses Simmons Tom for the bassline in many of her productions and the sound is really nice.

At 1:35

 

Toms are Lucifer's work.
unless you have 2 together like this:

in which case, that's acceptable... : )

 

There's only one way I can drain the thought of that disgruntled-looking accountant (or do I mean accountant-looking grunter?) from my delicate sensibility. That way is to imagine that he's Chuck Norris. And he is roundhouse-kicking Tom Hanks, Tom Selleck & Tom Cruise. Instead of actual toms. Although that is also the only way that song would be any more 80s.