I bought some new drum mics last week.  It's a 7-piece set made by CAD.  They'd low-end as far as audio quality goes, but they have built-in drum clips which is one of the main featres I was looking for.  I tried them out last night by recording an older song of mine and was very happy with how they worked.  I was a bit concerned about mic bleed and strange tones with the mics - as those are common problems that cheap mics have - but I was very pleased with them.  I'm mainly using them just to mic my toms, and toms aren't used very often, so that's probably one reason why they sounded ok.  If I wanted to use the mics for the snare, bass, or overheads, they'd probably sound terrible.

So now I have 4 other mics that came with the set that I'm not using.  It's not that I don't want to use them, but now I don't have enough mixer space to plug them all in at the same time!  That's ok though, because my kit is now being thoroughly mic'ed with just the 3 new tom mics.  Knowing me I'll find something else I'd like to do with them though.  Then I'll be in the market for a bigger ($$$) mixer. 

In order to try out my new mics I had to bring out my drums and set them up.  I've been keeping them in storage so that I can keep working on the basement.  It's so tempting to just leave them out and keep trying stuff, but I HAVE to tear them down and put them back if I'm going to keep making any basement progress.