| Drum Sound 411
I would say the following items are your critical success factors for good drum tone (somewhat in order of importance):
1. Mic Placement
2. Drummer (control of dynamics)
3. Mic Type (model, etc)
4. Drums (tuning, heads, brand, wood,etc)
5. Mic Preamp
6. Room
It sounds like you are asking if there is something you should put in your chain between the mics and your preamp/interface. I don't believe this would help you...you want to record as dry as possible. You can do all your sound palette manipulation post production in Logic. Look at improving your techniques in the first four success factors and your drum tone chops will take a quantum leap...
__________________  Nelly Drummer, Vocalist, Project Studio Stunt Pilot
“My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.” Jimmy Page
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