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I don't usually use toms myself, but as with all instruments, pick samples that work well together - if you have a kick drum which takes up a lot of the same frequencies, it's not going to sound good, no matter how you pan or compress your toms. High pass filter the toms to a degree, until you have a good balance - enough low end to maintain the impression of weight, but not enough to seriously interfere with the kick down there. To what degree, is a matter of your personal taste.
If I was using toms, I'd space them left and right, maybe start with halfway between centre and the side and adjust from there depending how that sounds. I wouldn't want them totally separate, but I also wouldn't want them on top of each other. Once again, personal taste.
I'd generally want them fairly close to the front of the stage - so I'd use a "room" reverb on it. Maybe I'd send a little bit to the main "hall" reverb, with some pre-delay. But they'd be one of the drier elements in the track.
I can't really help with compression, it's such a personal choice, people use compression in many ways to achieve many things. I don't use compression in most of my songs, I find if I've chosen good sounds that fit well and arranged things well, everything generally comes through nice and clearly. Every now and then a situation comes up where I think a compressor will give me the result I'm after, then I go nuts with it.
As with everything, be absolutely clear about what you want to do with the sound, before you apply compression. Get clear, THEN do.
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