Hi, Although it may be late, its the only drummer thread on the site...
some info on my kit...
I use/have mounted
a Pearl vision VX Wine red kit, 12'',13'',16'',22''
Pro-mark Chris Adler Series sticks,
Tama HP200 double bass pedals,
Meinl Byzance heavy brilliant high-hats 14'',
Meinl classics 12'' splash,
Sabian AA brilliant crash 16'',
Sabian AAX studio ride 20'',
and 1 no name brand 13'' crash (That was originally a hi-hat from my first kit, but it actually worked better as a crash, though it has quick decay)
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I also have a zildjian Z custom heavy power ride, but I dont use it much, (Although its fantastic in metal, or hard rock situations)
I also have a mounted (grabber arm) no name china (which was the bottom side of the 'crash' high-hat), although its mounted on, I don't use it much at all, just keep it there in the rarest occasions..
Gibraltar high hat stand, and 3 grabber arms/mounts.
Pearl boom stand,
2 No name straight stands.
Drums:
The kit sound great, I even have all stock heads, so I wonder how it'll be when I change them.
Ive been looking at coated heads, Remo emperors, and ive been wondering if I should try them out, or go with some regular clear E-G2's.. Im regularly a Metal guy, but have always had infinite appreciation for jazz drumming, and have never tried decent coated heads (because the ones ive tried have had ugly overtones, though I don't necessarily hate overtones, I just dont like sloppy sounding overtones)
Wine red finish Pearl VX?
For $499 (*Shell packs) (US) at musiciansfriend.com, my kit was a steal.. It was even cheaper than the exports, thats why I got it.. but When I was buying it, It seems like they didn't even have a picture of the Wine red finish... I thought it would look pretty sophisticated and classy. I even looked it up on google, but many of them looked as if there were some problems with the lighting/camera that it may have looked kind of wierd, But when I got it, I realized it wasn't what I expected, It looked like a candy colour wrap, thats almost crimson/red-purple rather than a deep, dark, maroon like 'Wine red'. I had looked at an orange colour too but decided on this one. Although the set looks Great, It just could have been better.
any Meinl Cymbal Fans here?!
14/6.5 Maple snare drum, By a brand named Sonic. Coated ambassador.
Finally my snare, for $60 (canadian), Its probably the best, and only maple snare drum you can find. The snare was supposedly New, but it was defenitely tuned unevenly and when I took it home I had noticed around where the snare sat, the shell was warped (Im talking about like a full centimeter/ 1 and 1/2 centimeters deep). So im forced to tune the bottom head higher around the warped areas, cause other wise its loose and wrinkled. As much as it may make it worse, I kind of have no choice, and it doesn't matter much taking it was only $60. Other than that the snare sounds incredible, There are areas where the quality feels cheap, but the sound itself is great. As for the look, Its a natural finish and has darker kind of rims (Although theyre not black, theyre still chrome), but im pretty sure they aren't die cast or nickel or anything- makes it look great.
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the pearl Sensi-tone, steel 14/5.5 snare that came with my kit sounds like absolute crap, I like how its louder than my maple one, but the sound isn't warm (although its not supposed to), and rich, so thats why I got the maple snare.
As far as my idols go, Would have to be Jaska Raatikainen from Children Of Bodom, Matt cameron of soundgarden, Nick barker, Cobus Potgieter, and practically any jazz drummers like billy cobham, Buddy rich.
I think that pretty much covered everything. Thanks guys!
Nice jokes too 'Silverzone'
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. I've been playing for about eight years mes thinks and I was on drumline for all 4 years at highschool. What really got me into drums was Travis Barker when I saw the video for Feelin' This I wanted a drumset. I pretty much learned how to drum by watching Blink-182 videos over and over again the mimick what I saw. If Travis played it, I can probably play it, enough to understand it atleast 
