Here is a highly detailed equipment list: - DRUMS - Home studio kit Pearl Drums Reference Pure, natural maple finish 8x12 rack tom 16x16 floor tom 16x20 bass drum Gigging/Alternate studio kit Pearl Drums Vision Birch VBL, natural birch finish 8x12 rack tom 16x16 floor tom 18x20 bass drum Snare drums 7x14 stainless steel, flat black powdercoat on shell with long tube lugs 6.5x14 Pearl Drums Reference brass 4x14 Pearl Drums maple piccolo 8x14 Pearl Drums limited edition maple Nearly all of my snares feature die cast hoops and Puresound snare wires. Cymbals TRX Cymbals (core setup): 21" DRK ride 19" MDM or BRT crash 14" MDM or DRK hi-hats 13" DRK/BRT hi-hats 18" MDM or BRT crash 19" LTD custom chinese In addition, I also utilize: 22" Dark ICON 21" NRG ride 20" MDM ride 19" LTD chinese (slightly higher pitch) 19" ICON medium crash 18" ICON medium crash 18" DRK flat ride 16" ALT chinese 15" MDM hi-hats 'stack' cymbal: 14" ICON stacker (top) / 16" ALT chinese (bottom) 12" MDM hi-hats 12" BRT splash 8" BRT splash Drumheads I play Remo drumheads by choice, a rather strong preference of mine. This list -- especially -- evolves, but these are some of my favorites: tom-toms: I've used both clear/coated Emperors, the 'Vintage' variety of each and clear Pinstripes on a few occasions, but I prefer either Vintage coated Emperors or standard clear Emperors / clear Ambassador snare drums: Controlled Sound or Black X / Ambassador snare-side bass drums: usually coated Powerstroke III (with a double mini Falam Slam) but I've also used clear PS3 and coated Emperor / logo head or Powerstroke III Ebony (resonant head is usually ported and there's a bit of 'stuffing' inside of the drum) I tune my drums depending on the genre of music that I'm recording. I try to match the pitch of each lug, and -- generally -- the overall tuning of both the batter and resonant heads for maximum resonance. I control said resonance with a sliver or two of Moon Gel on each drum. Drumsticks I play Vic Firth Ralph Hardimon SRH2 'Hammer' Corpsmaster drumsticks. I've also used Pro-Mark drumstick/mallet combos, Hot Rods, and Vic Firth Rutes and wire brushes for sessions. I also have a pair of hand-wrapped Adam Argullin mallets. Bass Drum Pedals (specific settings, etc.) I play the Pearl Eliminator Demon Drive P3002D double pedal in the longboard configuration. My spring tension is maxed out with the 'power' and 'heavy' settings engaged. I utilize Pearl QuadBeaters (either the plastic or felt side, depending on the music) and they rest about six inches from the head -- hitting close to the center of a 20" bass drum -- with the BW100 beater weights attached at the top of the shaft (only the main body, the black and silver add-on weights are left off). Hardware Pearl C1000 double-braced straight cymbal stands x4 Pearl BC2000 boom cymbal stand with CLH1000 body manually wedged into top portion (for 'stack' cymbal) Pearl H2000 Eliminator hi-hat stand Gibraltar 'No-Leg' hi-hat stand (attached to bass drum with Pearl HA100 clamp) Pearl DCL300P hi-hat drop clutch x2 Pearl AX20 adapter clamp, TH2000S tom holder for rack tom Pearl S2000/C snare drum stand Pearl D2000 Roadster D2500 throne Practice Gear E-Pad 12" practice pad Gibraltar GBDP bass drum practice pad Power Wrist Builders PWB28-795 solid brass practice sticks Misc. Gear Boss DB90 Dr. Beat Direct Sound Extreme Isolation EX-29 headphones Mackie 402VLZ3 mixer Shure SM57 microphone x2 Camcorders Canon VIXIA HF11 Canon VIXIA HF11 with WD-H37II wide-converter lens Canon 60D with EF 20mm f/2.8 USM lens --------------------------------------------- - CURRENT HOME STUDIO RIG - DAW/Interface: Pro Tools HD 9 Converters: Apogee Rosetta 800, Apogee Ensemble iMac desktop computer Yamaha NS-10M monitors w/ KRK 10S subwoofer Microphones: Neumann TLM103 x2 Blue Baby Bottle x2 Blue Microphones Mouse AKG C414 (vintage) Shure SM81 x2 Shure BETA 98D/S mini condenser x2 Shure BETA 56A Shure KSM32 x2 Shure SM7B Yamaha SubKick Outboard: Chameleon Labs 7602 MKII preamp with X-Mod x2 Manley Pultec EQ x2 Trident 80B channel strip x2 API 560 EQ x2 API 512C preamp x2 Vintech 1272 two-channel preamp Presonus Studio Channel vacuum-tube channel strip x2 A few isolated drum tracks: Adam Edgemont - "Velvet City" (cranked brass snare, coated heads on toms, felt beaters on kick) Pete Peterson - "Death Country" (low-pitched/punchy toms and kick, high-pitched brass snare) Marcus Shoults - "The Old Element" (medium-pitched toms {coated heads}, 'mids-heavy' kick, piccolo snare) Pete Peterson - "13 Days" (low-pitched toms, worn coated heads with extra muffling, felt beaters on kick with mic pulled back, cranked room mics, deep snare w/ Black X head, 15" closed hats) Nick Johnston - "Night Of The Living Dance" (medium/high-pitched toms, coated bass drum head w/ felt beaters, piccolo snare, 18" ride) We Play The Part - "Leave" (low-pitched/punchy toms and kick, medium/low-pitched steel snare)

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