That whole OH deal is very drummer dependant. A lot of drummers hit the
hihat so hard that it's hard to get the full potential of the overheads but
if the drummer is in perfect balance with the mood of the song then any of
the snare mics mentioned along with the overheads will do.

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Henrik Krogh
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If the snare sounds good in the room and the drummer knows how to hit
it, you can take a $79 SM57 and make it sound like gold. As everyone's
already said, the OH mics are where you get the full snare sound. The
close mics just get more attack....usually just punched up a bit to
fill in the mix with the OH mics.
On OH mics, I'm still a fan of an old pair of AKG451 mics pretty much
in an x/y over the drummers head. That and a pair of room mics
squashed and there you go.

later,
m