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I will second the 'room up the staircase' trick. I've recently gotten into experimentation with this and think it is an awesome method of lending ambience. There's a particular spot that instantly turns my medium-small tracking room into a huge chamber. My room is decent, but geared towards the acoustically dampened side of things and I've struggled a bit getting a good 'room mic sound', normally opting for using a mic 3-5 feet in front of the kit more as a crunchy, whole kit kind of sound. I love the stairway mics, and this has been a great way of adding dimension to the drum tracks. Luckily, I have a room layout tailor made for implementing this technique.
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