Ya that's an excessive amount of mic's for a home studio, but some of them were borrowed for the picture, so don't feel too bad. That gear does reperesent alot of years of hard work and lots of collecting. Don't think you need too have all that stuff overnight to yield good results. I guess we are just lucky to have a partner who has a serious case of gear addiction. To answer your question about micing drums... we usually mic the kick, snare, toms, maybe the hihatt, and use a pair of overheads for the rest. Seems to work pretty good for us.