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Exactly. They're called "overheads", not "cymbal mics". If you want "cymbal mics", then that's a whole different story. But I'd say that 90% of your drum sound should come from your overheads (ok, maybe 72.4% or 85.7%...whatever). But MOST of your drum sound should be about your overheads, with the spot mics enhancing that.
It might be different for live work, but for recording, I'd say 99% of engineers (or maybe 82.5% or 89'3%...whatever) use overheads as OVERHEADS, not as "cymbal mics".
87.6% of all statistics are just numbers. The rest are............something else. What were we talking about?