Heres a simple set of samples of my drumset I made last year...

http://www.jakerock.com/DIYAUDIO_INDEX.htm

Theres a Battery 3 Cellmap for easy use in that app, and a ReaDrums Track Template for Reaper...
But you can use the samples in any app.

Have fun.

duck a fuck. i am going to write a song and put some jake drum samples to it this weekend. jake you are the best...really

Way cool ! Need to check those out ! I'm sure there will be quite a few recordings popping up in the next couple of weeks claiming that "Jason Loewenstein plays drums on these tracks" !

Well,
"Jason Loewenstein's DRUMS play on these tracks..."
...for better or worse I suppose!
I like that kit... pretty lightweight set of samples... loads really fast in Battery.
And pretty fast to set up in any sampler really.

I have a couple of variations of the kit as well... I will have to get them together and upload soon... I did do multi velocity samples, so it could sound pretty dynamic I suppose...

Does everybody use Battery, or is it just me?
What are you all using for drum samplers?

i never sample drums. i do percussion loops through one of those line-six green boxes sometimes but it seems so much easier to just play live drums and deal with the mistakes or what ever.

what do you find happens when recording different size kicks? i have an 18 inch kick drum and for some reason it sounds pretty heavy. what happens when the kick drum size is increased?

and do you find that less is more with mics on the kit (when live recording)?
i am just used to a nicely place mic instead of many mics. i see all those jazz session pics and there is like 1 mic or 2 in the whole fucking room and those guys are going nuts!!! and the recording sounds unbelievable. does it come down to a decent kit and good drummer? i have neither in my house but i am just thinking about ed blackwell, tony evens, etc...

Yeah,
Alot of the time a sort of medium sized kick can be the biggest sounding...
(If you play with the tuning / dampening / mic placement)

And yes, less is usually more with drum micing, in some ways...
Its a classic answer, but I think that the "nut" of the drum sound is made up of the overheads and kick mic. Having snare and room mics are a bonus.

The "good" thing about having a ton of mics on the drums is that it gives you alot of options and ways to help balance out a sort of unbalanced drummer...
Having close mics and compressing them to even out the performance can really, really help things... Also, if the performance, or the recording itself is kind of a disaster, you can trigger good sounding samples with the close mics, either replacing the recorded ones outright, or using them to blend in with the real ones... Which is much easier to do when you have close mics to use...

A really good trick, if you need to replace stuff, (and you have close mics to use) is to use some multi-mic'd sample library like Addictive drums, BFD, Battery, etc as the samples to be triggered... Because those samplers use ambient mics and overheads, you can dial in a little of it, and really make it all sound totally real in way that is difficult when using single samples.

In the end though, minimal mics and a killer drummer... One that understands the balance of all the sounds on the kit is obviously totally magic!!!
Unfortunately this is a rare human.
Most drum sounds on rock records are pretty heavily processed, and I really dont think it is a bad thing, in context.
A really good and balanced "dry" recording with minimal mic'ing sounds AMAZING with a proper "rock treatment".