Hey Ruabat.
Just read your post. Well you are going to have your hands tied a little based on your budget. Good news first... A good computer and software is key and it sounds like your have that.Now the rub, with 350 dollars you will be able to pic a set of mics used that will work for recording drums but you have got to interface the mics with the computer and this is where the expense is going to come in. There are a ton of different interfaces but what you will want is a minimum of 8 inputs for real time recording of 8 mics at once and the interface needs to have preamps built in unless you want to buy those as well and btw, those can be crazy expensive. The closest thing I can think of include the presonus firestudio, or the 8 channel interface from motu. I would look for these used on ebay which would push the price down.
Now there are quite a few people that will tell you to buy a analog mixer which can mix and sum all of the mic inputs into two channels and then you can buy a cheaper two channel analog/digital interface. Here is the rub on this sit up. You will only have two channels in the computer to process and mix instead of all of the mics and unless you are using a high end analog board and you have years of recording experience will you not be able to get close to the end product of mixing each channel separately in the computer. The software and plug ins now a days are just unbelievable.
So cliff notes version of above...
1. Mics (need at the minimum two over heads, snare, and bass with optional tom mics and room mics as well as a crushed mono room mic sent to a compressor)
2. A/D interface which will turn the analog mic signal into waveforms. This unit needs preamps to power your mics.
3. Computer and software to mix the above mics which will be on separate channels.
Hope this helps.
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