Yea Ive done spaced room Mic's in the past but the drummers were usually sub par and I ended up not using them. Ive recently been asking drummers (if there struggling) not to play the kick parts and I will add them later. I do this for overheads though as I have not been using room Mic's as of lately. It;s frustrating how some drummers will freak out when you ask them not to play and explain what your doing. There like "this is cheating and people will not respect me ext..." I almost had a fist fight between this guitarist and drummer because I wanted to fake the kicks in parts and the drummer was so ego driven he had to play it, and he could not play it, and would not take the help. The guitarist was on my side and I left for lunch and came back and all hell broke loose! Sucks too cause the band was good and could have had a great cd instead of just ok.
I'm gonna have to give this mono room Mic thing though because Ive been highpassing cymbals, hats and ride so much to kill kick, they just sound way to thin.
