Tom tracks an cymbal bleed

[Wood]

Oh, the other method I use with Toms, which is infinitely flexible, is to simply edit the wav file and create your own thresholds. For toms that are only going to play fairly occasionally I've found this is sometimes the most effective way. Very clean, and not affected by anything else in the signal chain (including gain staging) that might otherwise impact the gate. This would be silly on a snare track, but worth considering if having trouble with Toms.