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If you must....go very low on the drums...esp the kick drum, because that can kill all your headroom in the blink of an eye.
With small rooms you can usually get by without mic'ing the drums...or just use a single mic between the hi hat and snare for presence.
I'm a guitar player...so drummers...no wait....everyone... bitches about the guitar player being too loud...but he doesn't hear the crack of the snare in his ear on every beat
like the rest of us in front of him....and he has no volume control other than his sticks and hands...if he's good.