thanks, yeah i agree. it was a fun couple of hours getting them down...a pretty silly number of takes but we were having a good time an i got them pieced together. i just learned a hell of a lot about how to work with 12 different mic recordings of drum takes in pro tools and how to mix and work with that drum buss. we captured two kicks (one running through an 1176) and then the kick and snare had a parallel track through the bricasti. everything else was just eq'ing and a little gating on the ssl channel strips.
but my god, once i got home and started working in pro tools with just the drums, i learned...a lot.
started with two kicks and just overheads. got them where i wanted, brought everything else up slowly and killed a few mics entirely. full parallel with a nuked el-88 distressor mixed in at about 50% of the primary track. each mic/track had a de-bleeding gate (black salt silencer is wizardry if anyone needs to do this) pro-q4 eq on it that was scooping and boosting all the nasty stuff. drum buss had an api 550a, soothe2, spiff, and a few other things. put that all that into the logic session where the rest of the song was. did a little sample supplementation on the kick and snare in a few spots, the toms in a few spots, and a few crashes where the performance lacked. bussed all that to a reverb send and used the 7th heaven bricasti emulator. then volume and panning automation to finish.
tldr: holy shit recording and mixing real drums is a lot when you're really doing it on your own for the first time.