I wonder if you will want to make it dead around the kit? (with hanging blankets etc) only putting up mic's will give you an idea... depends how much room ambiance you get coming in on the overheads & any close mic's you use..
I knew a band that recorded on stage on a large concert hall.. to get a 'big sound' (it sounded dead / terrible actually!) but at least the room LOOKS like it has fantastic potential..!
My best ever drum sounds seem to have dry up front sounds coming into the close mic's and a huge room sound picked up by the room mic's. I like this combination as it gives great control between in your face punch and distant ambiance tone.
Too much ambient room tone coming into my close mic's and overheads.. and I usually become unhappy / worried.. and move to control it with movable acoustic baffles / blankets / sofas etc... I want that dry punch, and I want it to survive to the end of the project (I dont want a load of ambience to be revealed at mixdown time when I heavily compress the my close mic's)
Please keep us posted! That has got to be one of the wildest looking drum spaces we've had on GS so far!
