That's good to know. We have a separate amp for the monitors (it's another PA head that our rhythm guitarist is letting us use - we're kinda poor).
I ended up miking just the bass drum. There was another band before us and they only miked the bass drum and I could hear every thing from his drumset. Since that was true, I realized that there was absolutely no need for overheads. We were under a tent made of some thick, white tarp material (it had a semi-glossy finish), so the acoustics were pretty good in that it was pretty contained within the tent area.
But I gotta say that my little recording test helped me anyway. I used the same bass drum level that I found at the practice studio (because when I tested the vocal mics for the sake of comparison, I used the actual performance levels), so this allowed me to set it and forget it. It was rather nice! I just hope that I didn't hurt our speakers...
Anyway, so overall the gig was a success. I guess I worried about nothing, but yet, I'm glad my worrying lead me to do what I did so that I could have this success.
