There are so many room mics in this library, listen to them all to hear what you like. To help with this, use the envelope shaper to set the release time to 2 seconds or shorter. The toms in Superior Drummer ring a long time and sometimes clash. I'm not talking about a LOT of it either, very subtle amounts can go a long way. Used right, saturation will make your drum punchier, fatter and clearer. Distortion/saturation is not something people immediately thing about when they mix drums. I occasionally use the compressor on the individual toms, but I almost always mix it with other plugins in my DAW. Superior's built in effects are alright. Compression is your best friend when it comes to drum mixing. Here are some other random notes about Superior Drummer and drum mixing:
Like I said, I've been using Superior Drummer ever since it came it out, and it can be mixed for any genre, you just gotta know what you're doing. Right now I'm using DF-Excite from Drumforge. Also, using saturation on your drums (especially snare) is a secret key to mixing EDM. If you're going to mix EDM, you'll either want to gate the samples, or Superior Drummer has an envelope shaper that you can mess with to make these samples shorter. If you want it tighter, stick with a slower release (~100ms), but I've used a really fast release (~10ms) to make a drum sound like it sustains longer. When it comes to mixing, a very common approach with kicks and snares is to set your compressor with a slow enough attack (20-30 ms) so that the transient eeks through untouched, but the sustain is affected after. That snare and the 14" Slingerland would work well for something more Indie or for a roomy rock sound. For a lower tuned snare I like using the 13" Nir-Z snare. The 13" GMS Piccolo snare is one hell of a snare, that I've used successfully in metal and funk alike, and for you Djent fans, that's the same snare Periphery used on their first album.
I've never liked the default snare in Superior Drummer. Metal? Rock? Jazz? Indie? EDM? Avatar can be mixed to fit any style, just what you do with your FX determines your sound. A lot of it comes down to the style you want. There's never really a "universal approach" to mixing drums, just common tools and decent starting points, but you need to mix a LOT before you get to the point of knowing what you need to do before you turn any knobs. Nowadays, if I'm making metal I'll replace the kick and snare with something from Steven Slate Drums, but I love the toms and cymbals in Superior Drummer. I've been using Superior Drummer's default (Avatar) kit since when it was first released because it is a versatile and thoroughly sampled library. This is fairly long-winded but hopefully this will help:
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