Yeah, for the record...
With the Nady kit, we bought a bunch of boom mic stands, since we learned during our first recording project that mounting mics directly to the drums causes the mics to pick up semi-obnoxious ringing frequencies between the drums. All mics are on stands typically 1-2" from the surface of the drum head, angled slightly towards the center.
Getting a good tone from the bass drum was a big challenge. We cut a hole in the bass drum head and put the mic even with the hole (not through the hole). We then covered the drum & microphone with a blanket to isolate the mic a bit more.
The condenser mics are placed 3-4 feet away from the corners of the drum kit.
All of those mics are then sent into a Carvin mixer, given a little EQ, and mixed down to stereo and compressed before running into the computer.
Lately we've also been running a large diaphragm
condenser mic about 10 feet away from the drum kit, just to pick up a little more ambient tone. (We also do the same trick with the guitars... even though each amp is close-mic'd with an SM57, we have a condenser 10 feet away to thicken up the tone a bit.)
--B
