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If the room is truly awful and the gear isn't all that great, I'd trigger everything, but also mic up everything as best as possible as well. Even if the real mic sounds aren't stellar, mixing them in with the samples provides a more dynamic and realistic sound. Also, don't trigger live, recording the samples coming out of a module. Personally, I wouldn't use a module, but if you want to, you could use it and record the MIDI out of it, so you could choose sounds for it later(be aware of latency, tho). My preferred way of using triggers is to record the actual trigger signals onto their own tracks, then use Drumagog, Sound Replacer, etc. to trigger samples later on. I've had to mix songs where the people just triggered their entire kit through a module(which wasn't even set up very well) and recorded the outputs of the module, and that's it. No mics, no trigger signals, nothing. I was stuck with their cheesy reverb heavy samples without any dynamics and double triggering everywhere. Yeah, it sucked tutt . Hope this helps.
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