That's some substance right here, thanks for your reply!
So, the H2 in this case is actually two stereo mics. One's facing the drums, the other's facing away from the kit, the second of which I mixed in quite a bit lower, obviously. The H2 has got two stereo capsules (90° and 120°) that you can record simultaneously.
You're really close regarding the H6 setup, though. There's indeed a spaced pair and an additional mono LDC in terms of overheads as well as a close mic each on kick and snare. There is no room mic - the mono overhead is kinda doing that job for me, -ish. The sixth and last mic is the 'wurst' mic. It's typically a 57 sitting above the bass drum batter side hoop pointing in between the snare and floor tom.
As far as processing goes, I mainly used eq, compression and tape saturation on the individual tracks as well as the stereo buss. Also a bit of transient shaping on the kick and some reverb (snare and mono OH) and that's about it.
And to a degree, I'm with you about the H2 sound. There's something about it. I especially love how the snare drum just barks. That's such a cool sound.
I still find the disadvantages too severe in order to prefer it, though. The lack of low end you mentioned is one thing, the cymbals to me are pretty rough to say the least and most importantly for me - because the H2 seems to have such a mid heavy frequency response - the drums get in the way of the guitars quite serverely. You really notice on the palm muted rhythm guitar bits.
And that leads to another thing. The levels of the H2 were actually quite a bit lower than the ones of the H6 buss. The H2 tracks just seem to be more audible, frequency-wise and the unit itself is actually compressing internally, as well. Whenever the red light is blinking on the H2 it goes into hard limiting which you can't avoid as you can't exactly fine tune the input levels. You've only got hi-med-lo and the low setting still hasn't got quite enough headroom to really stay clean with drums.
I guess a proper mixing guy could make more of the H6 tracks, as well. In the end I don't really-really know what I'm doing. I kinda just turn dials until I can about hear everything that's there.
In the end, though, that little fun experiment sparked some ambition in me.
At some point I'll have to see if I can record some legitimate punk tracks using only the H2 for all the tracking. (;
Thanks again for your input, in any case!
It's nice being able to reflect on other peoples (well spoken) points of view at times!