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The kit was an old gretsch kit, and the snare was a reallllly deep snare drum. It was pretty dead sounding. I also blame a lot of it on mic placement, since at the time I didn't really pay attention to what I was doing. The sessions was literally an in/out kind of situation, so the general feeling was 'is it recording? yeah? ok, lets do this'. Extremely fun way to make a record, but doesn't yield the greatest sounds when you're fairly new to this kind of thing.
You really should (if you haven't) check out some of the V.O.D. stuff Dave Sardy did, it seemed like that was where you were trying to take the drums when I heard yours.
Matt