My daughter practing snare, bells this aft......

@tomic601 

Agreed that the recording is the limitation. Microphones are actually very good. The challenge is microphone placement! Drums sound different with less than a cm of microphone movement in any direction. Generally high overheads and a mix of close microphones works well but it is an art to get it to sound remotely like the real thing!

Drums also sound very different from the throne than from the audience. Sympathetic snare resonance can plague the drummer at the throne but audiences actually hear very little because of the way sound is projected.

Yes. Large ATC do,

However, few if any recordings sound like being close to someone practicing on a live snare in a domestic setting. Recordings are almost always compressed - especially snare. Live music is almost always more dynamic.

Try Sheffield Labs drum track test CD on your setup and see how close it sounds.