I record my Anchor Drum Galleon kit underneath a treated ceiling on carpet with the rest of the room hard wood. There is a natural resonance that is not too overbearing. As far as cymbals go, I typically use my ZIldjian K's and K Customs for a balanced and not-too-loud cymbal sound.

I use an Audix i5 on my snare drum top, GLS Audio SM57 clones on the tops of my toms (2), an Audix d6 inside the kick in the middle, a Shure PG57 as a snare bottom mic, and a Nady Jumbo kick mic aimed at the beater. I use Sterling Audio ST30 (2) as overheads. Sometimes I run the kick and snare through a BBE 362 sonic enhancer. I sometimes (less frequently than the other method) run the entire signal through a BBE 362 sonic enhancer.

In my studio, I proudly run a Behringer 3282 analog mixer as the heart of my studio with 8 busses fed into a Zoom R24 USB interface that plugs into my studio designed PC. It has several huge hard drives and has lasted me 5 years and is still going strong. It's a beast of a PC. I record into Reaper at 48,000khz. I have signal chains for each individual mic in Reaper. Most of them have some sort of gain boost, a noise gate, upward and downward expansion, compression, reverb, a slap back delay, some EQing if necessary, and typically a limiter at the end of the chain. For snare, I add a bit of treble excitement. For the kick, I add some bass at 80hz and compress for a huge but focused boom. I then run a chain on the drums as a whole with slight compression to glue things together, a bit of reverb, some filters, and a limiter at the end of the chain.

UPDATE // For drum tracking, I've routed the mics directly do the Zoom R24, and reduced my drum mic count to 6 with toms, and 4 when I record without toms. Reducing the mic count down from 12 to 8 to 6 to 4 has simplified the mixing process and cleaned up the phasing issues I was experiencing. I've also upped the foam game in my studio with some 3 and 4 inch wedges.

As far as synths go, I only use software synths. In FL Studio, I use the MiniSynth often. In Reaper, I created my own synth signal chain. I run DirectWave for a general synth sound, then add the ReaSynth with sine LFO, then add some other synth in Reaper. The output signal sounds lush and thick. At some point I'll buy a hardware synth, probably a Behringer DeepMind. Of all my gear, my Behringer gear has never failed.

I have a few guitars, a one-piece solid body bass, a few amps, a few bass amps, and some digital stuff like amp modelers and sims. I often try to emulate Justice and run my synths through distortion and amp sims to make it sound like guitar.

I'd be more than happy to talk shop or trade tips. Always willing to learn.