I hate poor drum recordings!

[Krabbe]

I think that is not recorded in a professional studio.recorded in Living room

Nevertheless, couldn't a better mic placement have "fixed" some of the small-room-issues?

Well, in this case, you can perhaps judge for yourself:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo9i051pbbk

I wonder whether you're trying too hard fight against the nature of the recordings themselves. Certainly the spill was intended to be an integral part of the drum sound for the most part, and I didn't do a whole lot of EQ for the preview mix, I seem to remember. Still, this kind of thing is of course a question of personal taste -- your vision for this mix is clearly quite different than mine was, but it's all good!

Maybe I am fightning the nature of recordings, I don't know I come from doing live sound, where it's a lot about damage control. In studios you have the time and possibility to make the "perfect" recording ... what I am trying to say is ... well, at the end of the day, I guess that I just had been looking forward to be working with some high quality stuff.

I don't know why I don't enjoy the drum tracks. I've looked at my EQ's and they aren't completely f'ed up, and I guess the tone is OK. I don't know, maybe they aren't as bad as I feel they were, when I worked them.