You need to tell us more about what you are recording before anyone can recommend mic placement techniques. What are you recording too?

Suggestion.... Sm57 behind the kit, over drummers right shoulder aimed at center of snare. The condenser in front of kit, level with snare, somewhere between 3-6 feet away. You'll want to get a good balance of kick, toms, cymbals - that is key. If the drummer can't play balanced, then it might never work. You could also try close micing the kick and snare, letting the loud cymbals bleed through. It'll take alot of tweaking, but just try alot of different positions and keep note of what sounds better.

to tom

(To Tom) Ill be recording the whole band, but i only need advice for recording drums, ive been recording bass, guitars and vocals for a while and pretty skilled at that, but this would be my first time recording drums.

if you only have 2 mics, By gave you the way to place them, follow his advice. If you can beg or borow a couple of small condensers, try them for overheads as well.

I would put the 57 on the kick drum and place the condenser over the kit, at cymbal height over the toms, in the middle of the kit.. ala 60's old school method.

I´ve recorded drums with two mics using the setup suggested by BY, but with one dynamic (SM57) just for the snare, the OH in front of the kick 3 o 4 feet. The problem with it is that you will need to boost the EQ looking for some low end.
I think that Cedar´s suggestion will work better. All you have to do is experiment.

TS :wink:

I'll second Kurt's (Cedar Flat Fats) suggestion.