heya.. most important thing,TUNE YOUR DRUMS! sorry for the caps, but just trying to emphisise how important this is.
if your drums arent sounding right in the first place, then its not gonna matter what mics you use, where you place em etc.. if your instrument sounds like crap, dont expect your recording to sound otherwise. should the instruments sound good on their own, be it tuning or placement in the room, the you'll find your choice of micing/mixing options much, much easier and less likely to run into these sorta problems.
if you do like what the drums sound like, but the kick is too boomy in the room, then no amount of postioning or eq is gonna fix that. you could get it to work, but it'd be a compromise. best bet is to fix the problem at the source, ie, the drums. Tuning plays a very important part for drums (as it does for everything)...Toms resonate...and they are resonating from the kick. tune up your drums right, and the problem, if not solved, will be less noticable.
Lets say you tune everything up, the drums sound great in the room. you turn up the over heads and still...too much kick. repostioning the mics helps a litlle, key here is to find the best spot for your whole kit...remember, most of your drum sound is coming from the overheads, its a good idea to get a good balance on them. once you do, but still find too much kick, time too pull out a filter.
The thing here is that if you have tuned up your drums right, postion the mics the best you can, you'll find that you will need to filter just a little to tighten up the bottom. YOU WILL GET THE KICK IN YOUR OVERHEADS. you should try to use what you assume is spill into ambiance for your kick close mic. make it work for you.
if after all that, and its still too boomy.... no choice. automate the frequency on the filter. cut the lows on the overheads when you not playing the toms, kicking it in only when the toms come in. that might sound strange, but if you got a wall of guitars going at the same time, it shouldnt matter.
have fun!!
