I read your post and felt like it was worthy of finally signing up on here and saying something, seeing as though, I've done pretty much what you're trying to do 2 times now
First off, all these peopel doubting that you can't get good drum sounds in a small room are wrong. I have a room that's probably 12x12 ft in a basement, so the ceiling is low too. I'm not saying I get amazing drum sounds, but if you heard my stuff, i doubt you would have guessed that. I also own some of the same mics you got, here's what I did for most of my last project, as far as mics go:
Shure SM57 - top of snare
Audix D1 - bottom of snare
2 Okatava's - overheads, about as high as I could get them from the kit, space at about 2-3 feet away from each other
AKG D112 - Kick
Shure KSM32's - on the toms (only used a two tom setup)
I used to have a digi001, but it's been awhile, I now have a TDM setup, so my pres were:
HHB Radius 10 - both snares and overheads
DBX 386 - toms
Joe Meek Studio Channel - kick
If you wanna hear some of my stuff, here are some links:
www.tomwehrle.com www.myspace.com/tomwehrle www.milkskakestudios.com - that's my lil studio
This is not an add, it's just for the doubters (and be sure to download stuff if you wanna hear the clarity as some of the stuff you might hear is smaller sound file mp3's, etc). On first try at doing the singer/songwriter and playing a lot of instruements, it was a total of 3 guys that played everything you heard, some of the songs I did everything. When I decided to do another project, I knew I wanted to get more people in to help me, a drummer on all the songs, a bass player, different guitarist, etc...for variety's sake and just to mix it up seeing that I knew a lot more people after the first cd. Anyways, personally for me, having other people come in and play on my tracks was like a breath of fresh air sometimes, it would really motivate me and inspire me to keep going...cause sometimes doing everything on a song, you really start to wonder "is this really what should be done with this instruement part?" Hope that makes sense. Some of the songs I did all by myself, I wish I could have had other people play on them as I'm not that great of guitarist, and drums that were programmed, I wish I had real drums on them, cause I think they pretty much always sound better.
Some other things I've learned while on the last project, I had this drummer come over and lay about 10 songs in 4-5 hours which was amazingly fast seeing that he had never heard the songs before...anyways, one of my Oktava's started acting up, which I had noticed when we first started recording, but I thought I had caught it everytime it had happened...well the next day after he was long gone, I noticed some of the songs we did, half way through the song, the mic would cut out or something, then come back in, it's my fault for not noticing it (bad enigeering) but since I'm bascially in the next room over and doing everything on headphones, I never noticed, I was more concerned about timing and producing the actual performance, so those songs were never really further pursued, haha.
As far as what I'd recommend on mics, I'm not really impressed with my AKG D112 and have just purchased a Audix D6 (which you can pick up pretty cheap on ebay, around 160), I haven't used it yet, but I love my D1, and have read so many good reviews about the D6 I'm pretty sure I'll be selling my D112 really soon. What I'm trying to say is, get a decent mic for you kick, it wont cost much and will be worth it. The KSM32 does a good job on vocals, and to mix it up use a 57 or 58 on the verses or chorus of a song, and the KSM on the other parts, I've done that once or twice and liked the effect.
So, my final tid bit...you can sit around and talk about gear all day, pre's, outboard compressor's/effects...those things aren't going to really make you write or perform a better song, sure it will make them sound more professional possibly, but a great song is always a great song, and a great performance doesnt have to be recorded in a million dollar studio for it to be amazing, I love songwriting and tracking ideas down, but for me, I have to think "what is my goal with this?" "what am i trying to say?" - not trying to get really deep, but, a lot of the stuff I hear coming out these days is bunch of poooo, people are more concerned about how cool a cd sounds as opposed to what's being said or the musical aspect of it, even friends I know, the bands they're in, I'm like...what!? it's just rubish noise to me that's already being done...find what you're trying to say through music or a song, and think "i have 3-4 minutes to get this 1 point driven home...how am i going to do it?" that's my theory at least
Hope some of that helps...it was long, sorry, but it was my first post!!
TW
ps...i'm horrible with leaving words out and spelling, it's just the nature of the beast i guess