Get Bill Gibsons Audio Pro Home Recording Course (excellent book) It took me 4 books and a year of trial and error to learn to mic drums. I went through three different sets until I bought the Audix D series set. I believe you can still get decent sound with your mics and proper technique I do prefer analog better but "you can get good sounds dry to digital" (I don't believe this though) There something about running through an analog mixer (direct outs to interface) first that you don't get from interfaces (INSERTS for hardware and Eq's). All the pros will tell you that. When recording drums proper tuning is a must. Good sounds out equals good sounds in. Also muffling is a must (overtones can ruin a recording) I use evens O rings I stay away from remo because they are too thick. For a traditional kick you want 20% batter and 10 to 20% reso muffling I use the Evans Gate pillow on the reso and Eq pillow on the batter (it rebounds) and if you have a Drum Dial 74 on single ply batter 70 on reso. I stick the mic in my Evans Eq4 hole and aim slightly towards the beater (6 inches from touching the batter head slightly off center). I gate my kick and nothing else this give you a tight kick but not isolation when you gate everything. (gating everything sounds like seperate instuments instead of a drumkit, bleed is good). Then I compress a couple of Db's at 2.5 to 1 just to round it out then remove cloudy frequencies around 300 Hz at a Q of .75 to 1 as much as -12 Db's (this will alow you too record a much hotter kick giving you more thump (punch) during mixdown. There are a lot of Eqing drum tutorials on you tube but they really don't tell you what to do before. Which I've provided above. The snares pretty easy just put it 2 inches above and inside the rim aiming towards the center while the back of the mic is to the Hi Hats no processing is required except Eqing during mixdown. Overheads 2 feet above cymbals, XY pattern directly over you kick knee panned hard right and left no proccesing here either just some Eqing during mixdown. Lets get good sounds from this setup before moving to toms which require some compression and a bit of Eqing before tracking. When your ready let me know and I'll explain the toms. Anyways I've talked to quite a few engineers and they tend not to dry track (I tried it first couldn't get good results hated it and then followed their advice).
P.S. do you know how to gain stage?
and check out that Evans guy (you yube tutorial) on tuning toms He's right for recording just needs muffling
and check out virtual drum bible for head types, it does matter on genre
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