Hello, its my first time that i am Micing a drum, my mics are:

1 sm58
2 sm57
4 Sennheiser E604
1 Audio-Technica PRO-25

for the first time the tims, kick and snare as a great sound.

I find that all of my drum recordings sound good but when i compare them to professional recordings i find that they are puny and weak sounding. I was wondering what kind of tricks to big professional studios employ to get that huge rock sound.

I'm about to start a recording session of a 3 piece band with Drums, Electric Bass, and steel drums. Anyone have any tips, tricks, or pointers for mic selection or placement on the steel drums? I've never recorded steel drums before and any help would be greatly appreciated.
My microphone choices:
Marshall MXL 2001 (2)
Marshall MXL 603S (2)

I was planning on using an octopre to add 8 chanels to my 002 rig via the optic, and dedicate these mainly to recording drums. The pre has built in compression/limiting and 48v phantom on each chanel. Is this a viable solution and if so what array of mics should I be looking at to cover the job properly?
I will only have about $1500.00 to play with though.

Hey there everyone. I am looking to find a set of mics for drums that will be used mostly in live performances. If possible I would like to be able to use some or all of the gear for studio work to achieve studio quality results. All this on a $500 budget.

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Hi!
seems punch and punch and squeezed drums are the word of the moment. I have never been a big fan of this tchnique but..
How do you guys do drums submix?
a) Use a multiband compressor, limiter thru a stereo representation of the whole key?
b) do you just sub kick snare and toms?

Problem...I have three drum mics (2 OH + kick) and only two XLR inputs on my stand-alone DAW. The two XLR inputs are also the only inputs with phantom power. Does anyone have a solution? Is there more than one solution?

Any tips on routing v drum outputs for multiple outs?

Do you know good Sample CD's?
I need real powerful sounds.
Thanks!

Coming up this weekend I have my first session with drums. I have an M-Audio Delta 44 card with a sixteen channel four bus mixer. My question is, should I record the kit with two overhead's, a snare mic, and a kick mic? or should i mic the whole kit and try to get a good sound to tape using two of the buses? Also, What would any of you suggest as the best way to position the overheads?