Your ear was right!
For the drums, both clips had a slightly different mic and preamp setup, but the kit and the room were the same. It was all recorded at my house. I like to track drums in the living room, as it is about 24x15 with a 12ft vaulted ceiling. Thin windows and plenty of other openings to the hallway make for little bass buildup, overall a pretty decent sounding room. I put gobos around the kit to lessen spill of the close mics, and then the room mics handle the ambience. Positioning helps. Make sure the overheads are equidistant from the snare center. Use buds with gun muffs or isolation phones to move the other mics while the drummer is bashing until they sound good. I usually forget that step, but it helps. Beta 52 kick, 57s on snare and toms, ksm32 overheads and room. API a2d on kick and snare, focus rite liquid Safire on everything else. I normally use pro tools for everything, and augmenting is done by hand, by copying the track and tab to transient to copy and paste the sample. The samples sound thin on their own, but mixed they sound good. Add a little eq and parallel compression, and you're good to go!
Oh, and btw, a good, well-tuned kit and decent drummer help too! We used a hybrid shine and Ludwig kit with new heads and paste cymbals.
For example... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyO7lvzfw5Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player