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Yea I agree, if your drums don't sound good, you're sorta screwed from the start, so get them sounding as good as possible. However I've had shitty sounding drums turn out great sometimes.
It's really pretty simple and a lot has to do with post/mastering.
Try OH's maybe 1 foot or so above the crash and play with the placement either left/right or forward/back depending how much or little crash you want and how much snare/hat you want to pick up. Close mic everything else.
If you're room isn't amazing sounding, the mic won't sound good at all, that's maybe what you're hearing. Smash it with a compressor and play with the mix and see how it sounds.
Perhaps you can post a sample of what you got so we can maybe diagnose what you've got going on.
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