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I must agree- an excellent post on programming, and an excellent reply; my experiences with live and recorded drummers are broadly similar, and I subscribe firmly to the jimmy page school of drum recording:
first, make the kit sound right on it's own. this means working with both the instrument (note- singular; it may be assembled from a kit of parts, but it should be regarded as one instrument) and the player to achieve the right sound acoustically.
then and only then do we start to think about mike placement.
I often find that once the drummer's happy with his environment and the sound of the kit, a single-point stereo mike somewhere near the kit is all you need. I do tend to mike the kick drum (close but not inside) and the snare/hihat separately aswell, but only so that I can lift them a bit if they get lost in the broad spectrum of other rhythmic sounds we ofetn employ.
sorry if this has gone a bit OT but it's all useful stuff to share.
d./r.m.i.
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