Small Room, Small Recorder.
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Small rooms are not that bad IF it is acoustically treated. Firstif it is sitting on rug that is on hard wood is best. If you are on carpet then sometimes people will place their kit on plywood. If the ceiling is acoustic tile the you are golden, but if it is dry wall you are going to be have slap back echo issues. I am assuming the walls are perpendicular to each other causing a box shape. Again this going to give all types of slap back echo. If you can break up the walls with acoustic treatment this will go a long way to improve the overall sound for recording. The best would be carpet or rugs hanging on the walls but anything that absorbs sounds will work. Now, once you have the acoustics in your room handled then it is time to record. Sounds like you want an overall good sound without massive amounts equipment. There are a ton of guys on here that can guide you on this. I personally would mic my bass, snare and have two overhead mics for ambience if I were you. This could run into a mixing board which then could run straight into your computer via multiple interfaces ( m-audio, etc... Just check any of the music centers on line or in your area). If the A/D (audio/digital) interface has enough inputs then you could forgo the mixing board and mix your track directly in your computer using any of the software that comes with the A/D interfaces. As you can see there are multiple ways to skin a cat. Take your pick.
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