Not sure how I'm going to spread these mics around...

[DISENFRANCHISED]

I've only ever recorded my drums by putting my 8-track mixer/recorder on the ground a few feet in front of the kick drum. Obviously some drums were picked up better than others, but I didn't really care. I recently bought the CAD Pro-4 microphone pack, which should be delivered in a few days. I'm not sure how I'm going to set up 4 mics. I've got a typical 5 piece kit (two rack toms, one floor), but I also have an 18" floor tom in addition to that, which I keep on the other side of the kit from the 16" floor tom (the 18" tom is cut off in the picture- it's on the left).

I have no experience with miking drums, but from what I'm hearing, with a 4-mic set, it's one mic bass drum, one mic snare, and then I don't know. Looking at how this is set up, with floor toms on either side of me, do you expect 4 mics to be enough?

Sorry that the picture sucks. The 18" tom is cut off in the lower left corner of the picture.

[itchie]

put one tom mic between the rack toms and one between the floor toms ...basically you will have to move the floor tome back over the right