Re: Is upgrading my solution, or is there another option?
Hey Nick,
No problem.
I normally don't recommend Behringer gear since it has a habit of breaking (although I am interested in their new digital mixers 
), but I did use one of these for around 4 years without any problems: Behringer MULTIGATE PRO XR4400 Quad Expander/Gate | Musician's Friend
Full disclosure, it did die on me
Also, if you set the attack too fast on it (and several other brands of gates do this too) you get a click as the gate opens. Backing off on the attack fixes this.
These are much better (and much more expensive): dbx 1046 Quad Compressor Limiter | Musician's Friend
And Rane is considered the gold standard ..... but is God awful expensive
You could also get a pair of these and have compression too: Alesis 3630 Dual-Channel Compressor/Limiter with Gate | Musician's Friend
Just a quick question. So you have 2 overheads you want to pick up the toms, a separate kick and separate snare mic?
If that is the case, you will want to gate the kick, I would simply remove the snare mic and rely on the overheads which are likely getting plenty of signal from it anyway, then dial in the channel eq for the overheads such that no high frequency is really going through it at all.
I have had decent luck micing drums with a setup similar to this. What kind of mixer are you using?
I am sorry to hear about the loss of your SXA100's. Those are nice little speakers with very smooth vocal range amplification. In your price range, I like the idea of the new ZXA's too, but haven't heard them (and like yourself, I would never buy a speaker I hadn't heard first).
Good luck and let me know how things turn out 
