A good starting point is to remove everything up to 50Hz however, you can go much further with the low frequency filtering depending on the role the overheads are playing in your drum sound.
Sometimes you may want the drum overheads to occupy both ends of the frequency spectrum for a more natural and full sound where you may not have a great drum room sound to rely on.
Personally, I filter drum overheads from anything between 80HZ up to 180Hz to remove the low frequencies that are better represented by the kick drum microphones. I also like to leave some of the low-mid frequencies in to emphasise the weight of the snare drum, but of course this depends on how well the drum overheads are captured in the recording stage. I also follow this kind of approach with programmed drums, but I also treat them on a song-to-song basis.
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