Heres a sample with some cheapie mics/ decent pre's...

[tubedude]

Heres a sample of some homereccer mics with Presonus MP20 preamps... except overheads were through John Hardys... this is John Rices stuff..
Here is the signal chain :

Mics -> Audix TR-40 spaced omni pair mics
Mic pres -> John Hardy M-1
Converter -> Lucid AD9624
Recording Interface -> MOTU 2408 MkI optical spdif in to Cubase 5 on a PC
*close mics are as follows :
snare ( top ) - Beyer M201
bass ( inside 2" from head ) - Audio Technica ATM25
Toms - a Marshall MXL 2001p each
Rotos - AKG D3400
Hihat - Marshall MXL 603s
Ride - Marshall MXL 603s

And drum overheads alone, nothing else...

 

[philsaudio]

I like the fox hunt song. Drum solo sounds pretty full, but bottom end of song is a little laid back for my taste. Thanks for sharing it, the drummer rocks.

 

[warlock]

OK that's it I'm getting me a pair of those MXL603's.

Keijo

 

[Scott Tansley]

OOOOH, love to hear good musicians. Bet the drummer likes Ian Paice. Great tight musicianship, always a pleasure to mix. Good work. The bottom end sounds pretty good to me. Not huge but its not that kind of music. I couldn't feel the white cone on my ns10's wobble much from the kick but you sure could hear it. ATM25's tend to do this a bit. Maybe thats why there so good cause you can then turn them up more without making the speakers wobble like shit like the d112 or the beta52 does.

 

[Prism]

Reminds me of some of the good ol' stuff like Carl Palmer...much in the sound and somewhat in the style.

Isaiah

 

[tubedude]

The overheads alone dont sound too bad... you can get ALOT out of overheads if you place them right. I think it would sound much better if he wasnt using the Mk1 as his converters... they are pretty old school 16 bit converters I think....