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 (augmented with 14x24 Decade maple bass drum) In addition, I also utilize: 8x10 rack tom 10x13 rack tom Gigging/Alternate studio kit Pearl Drums Vision Birch VBL, natural birch finish 8x12 rack tom or 14x14 floor tom 16x16 floor tom 18x20 bass drum Snare drums 6.5x14 Pearl Drums Reference brass 4x14 Pearl Drums maple piccolo 8x14 Pearl Drums limited edition maple 6.5x14 Pearl Drums Sensitone Elite brass 5x14 Sensitone Heritage Alloy Aluminum 3x13 Pearl Drums brass piccolo Nearly all of my snares feature die cast hoops and Puresound snare wires. Cymbals Zildjian Cymbals (Darkest Hour setup): 21" A Mega Bell Ride 19" A Custom Crash 14" A Custom Mastersound Hi-Hats 8" A Custom Splash 13" A Custom Mastersound Hi-Hats 18" A Custom Crash 18" A Custom China Extended setup for sessions/projects: 6" FX Zil-Bel 6" A Custom Splash 11" FX Oriental "Trash" Splash Small 'Stack': 8" FX Trashformer / 10" A Custom EFX Regular 'Stack': 14" A Custom EFX / 16" FX Oriental China "Trash" 16" A China High 18" K Custom Special Dry Trash China 19" K China 17" A Custom Crash 17" K Custom Hybrid Crash 18" K Dark Crash Thin 19" K Dark Crash Thin 19" K Custom Hybrid Crash 19” K Custom Special Dry Crash 20” K Custom Dark Crash 12" A Special Recording Hi-Hats 13" A New Beat Hi-Hats Custom hi-hats: 14" K Constantinople bottom (top) / 14" K Custom High Definition bottom (bottom) 15" K Light Hi-Hats 18" A Uptown Ride 20" K Custom Flat Top Ride 20" K Heavy Ride 21" K Heavy Ride 21" A Custom ReZo Ride 22" K Constantinople Renaissance Ride Drumheads I endorse Remo drumheads. This list -- especially -- evolves (be sure to peruse the video descriptions, as I commonly list specific heads), but these are some of my favorites: tom-toms: clear or coated Vintage Emperor / clear Emperor snare drums: Controlled Sound X, Black X / Ambassador snare-side bass drums: coated Powerstroke III (with a double mini Falam Slam) / 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 Moon Gel, usually on both the batter and resonant sides of the heads. 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, with an ACD Unlimited Ultimate Drive Shaft. My spring tension is maxed out with the 'power' and 'heavy' settings engaged. I utilize Pearl QuadBeaters (felt side) 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. Depending on the music, I may opt for my VicKick fleece beater instead of the QuadBeaters. 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 9707NL-DP legless 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 D2500 throne Hi-hat Razer Percussion Pearl low clave block Pearl 7"x13" Primero steel timbale LP fiber maracas LP Cuban style guiro multiple small LP egg shakers LP Soft Shake shaker LP grenadilla wood clave LP Cyclops jingle tambourine, brass LP Vibra-Slap II Deluxe LP Aspire 10" triangle LP Tri-tone Samba Whistle 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 Vic Firth SIH1 headphones or Ultimate Ears 5 Pro with custom molds Mackie 402VLZ3 mixer Shure SM57 microphone x2 Vratim Drum Shoes Other Instruments Kawai 706 1985 Walnut Piano Vermona E-Piano Moog Rogue Emibas Bass Synth Yamaha CS1x Yamaha SK10 Waldorf Blofeld Suzuki Omnichord OM-84 Technics SX-K450 Suiko ST-50 Bontempi B4 Organ Casio SK-1 Suzuki Omnichord OM-84 Yamaha CS-80 V (Arturia) Synclavier V (Arturia) Roland Jup-8 V (Arturia) B-3 V (Arturia) Re-pro 1 & 5 (u-he) iPad loaded with synth apps Stylophone Gen-X 1 Otamatone Teenage Engineering PO-12 Mattel Synsonics Drum Synth Akai Rhythm Wolf Korg DDD-5 Korg SQ-1 Tubbutec Wild Heart Hikari Instruments MONOS ESP LTD AP-5 ESP LTD B-1004 Multi-scale (set up in F#) Fender Fretless Jazz Bass Warwick Thumb 5 NT Gibson 1979 Les Paul "The Paul" Sterling JP70 Schecter Omen-8 Ibanez Artcore AF55 Alvarez ABT60 Baritone Acoustic Guitar Santoor (Rezae) Korogi X37K Xylophone Ibanez M510 Mandolin Shehnai Flute Burns Great Sounding Theremin at a Great Price LeafAudio Microphonic Soundbox JMT Synth Noisy Mic Pyle Bullhorn ProCo Rat 2 Distortion Pedal Contact Microphone Camcorders GoPro HERO5 BLACK x2 GoPro HERO7 BLACK x2 --------------------------------------------- - CURRENT HOME STUDIO RIG - DAW/Interface: Pro Tools HD 12 Converters: Avid Pro Tools HD I/O Mac Tower 2.8 GHz Quad Core Amphion One18 monitors (powered by a Chord SPA 1032 power amp) w/ KRK 10S subwoofer Grado RS1e Reference Series Headphones Microphones: DPA 4011A x2 Shure SM81 x4 Stager SR-2N DPA 2011C DPA 4099 x4 DPA 4055 Neumann U47 FET Telefunken TF51 Shure SM7B AKG C414B ULS Outboard: Brent Averill Enterprises 1073 channel strip x2 Manley Pultec EQ Vintech Audio X81 preamp x2 Coil Audio CA-70S preamp Trident 80B channel strip x2 Brent Averill Enterprises 312 preamp (vintage) x2 API 550 EQ (vintage) x2 Purple Audio Biz Mk API 3124V Chandler Germanium Stereo Compressors

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