If your using a daw you can 1) run a gate on the tom track or 2) run strip silence and remove all regions from the tracki leaving only the loudest(tom) hits, or 3) use the the volume editor duck the track down around the tom hits. #3 gives you the most natural sound and uses the least processor but it takes the longest. Good Luck, Dave F

I place one or two thick wool blankets over/around my kick. Since my toms are mounted from a drum rack as opposed to sticking up out of the kick shell it is very easy to do, but YMMV.
It will however remove it (the kick) from your overheads, but I've never found my overheads very useful for rock kick anyways. Jazz
or maybe country could be totally different.

#3 sounds labor intensive

3) use the the volume editor duck the track down around the tom hits. #3 gives you the most natural sound and uses the least processor but it takes the longest.

This approach sounds labor intensive. What if there is alot of tom work, for example?
Thanks for your feedback.

Joshua

I'll generally go through each track and manually gate all my toms, as suggested above. During sections where there's a lot of tom-work, i'll just leave the mics open and then mute them for the regular beats. Zero-load on the CPU and great results. It usually takes me 15-20min per song when there is a LOT of tom-work... significantly less for "fills-only" songs.

Re gating/muting tom tracks -

Drastic. Let the kit breathe, I say!

work on the proximity of the mics and the skin. in other words try and get it as close as you can and that will improve sound isolation as well. A good kit is always easier to record and a good drummer is even better.