Mimicking Overhead Mics

I'm sure most of you know this, but it's something I stumbled upon recently and thought it was a great idea for faking OH mics on a synthesized drum kit.

Direct an FX send from the Cymbals, Hihat, and maybe snare (at relative volumes) to a buss.
Put a delay on it, of 15-40ms (to mimick the size of your room), set the delay to 100% wet, add a little reverb, and mix the volume until it subtly shimmers around your fake kit.

I've found that it can really help to make the sampled kits or synths sound fuller, or more real.

Just an idea.

ORIGINAL: Slugbaby

I'm sure most of you know this, but it's something I stumbled upon recently and thought it was a great idea for faking OH mics on a synthesized drum kit.

Direct an FX send from the Cymbals, Hihat, and maybe snare (at relative volumes) to a buss.
Put a delay on it, of 15-40ms (to mimick the size of your room), set the delay to 100% wet, add a little reverb, and mix the volume until it subtly shimmers around your fake kit.

I've found that it can really help to make the sampled kits or synths sound fuller, or more real.

Just an idea.

Something else I've done is to put a mic in the control room and rerecord the drum track off a full range set of monitors. JBL 4312s in my case. Blend this in as a room mic track. If you want realism then grunt and fart during fills as the track is playing and they'll think it was a real drummer.

Hahaha, great ideas.
How about recording a mumbled "you know, we could just replace him with a machine" somewhere in the background?