Thanks for this great post. It's awesome that someone described a bit of the signal flow and the equipment.
I'm just wondering, if he miked the cymbals on their own, how does he blend the cymbal recording with the overheads afterwards? Doesn't that make some sort of phase problems or does he cut most of the frequencies and just let out some portion of it?
Anyways, thanks for the post, i'm looking forward to your studio diaries :)

p.s. I'm planning on posting my commentaries on some of my mixes and recording sessions i've done. Nothin fancy, amateur stuff, but hopefully someone will read it and critique and give some advice.