There are plenty of 'post your drums' threads, and they are great. But I am interested in the layout of your kits (especially those of you with large kits like me). I like to look at some of your unique pieces and maybe even your reasoning behind certain placement of items. Here is mine to start things off... I have a few unique things on mine such as the 3 ride cymbals or 4 hihats. The kit has 2 sides like mike portnoy (though he is not my favorite drummer, just think the idea is brilliant). The two sides, for me, allow different styles and sounds. The left side is smaller and used for more poppy songs or a bright tone. The right side is bigger and deeper, allowing a more metal atmosphere. I like to put my highest tom 1 in from the left side, this allows easy flow of triplets, or any three note grouping, as well as 16ths (when i usually dont use the 10" drum). I also like to have a chinese cymbal next to the crash cymbal of an approximate size, just for color tastes if I choose to use it. I have 4 hats: 10" on the left 12" in the middle, 15" dummy on the right and 13" remote on the right. These have so many good uses, too many to explain. Same with the 3 rides, I have one kinda hidden under another on the right side so I can easily use both. Nobody I have seen does this, it is unique to me. Another thing that is unique to only me is one of my favorite parts of my kit. The 16" mounted tom on the left can move to be played on the right side. The tom arm is put in a snare base with a memory lock in place but the base of the stand is left loose. This allows me to easily just grab the drum and rotate it to the side I'm on. I use a 10lbs weight to hold the base of the stand down to compensate for the weight of the drum being way over the center of gravity. If you are curious about anything on my kit I'd love to explain some more for you guys. I will probably be asking you all questions too. I think it is a great thing to learn from others about placement and you can really find some innovative stuff out there if you look for it! If you don't want to spend the time in mspaint I suggest going to sabian.com and using their kit builder, which in my opinion is the best one out there. But at least label it in paint or something.
If I played in a band with a drummer with a kit that big, I'd make it my personal life's work to throw shit in that direction constantly, just because every time I did, it'd make a new and intersting sound. Also because the drummer wouldn't be able to block my throws. Is that totally necessary? Just a question.
You should just post this in the other thread instead. It's not as if it's completely flooded with activity.
I see you have this nice drumset on the way, but do you have a band that you use it with? I'd be interested to hear how you utilize all your equipment.
Yea, I get that a lot, and there are a lot of drummers who disagree with the idea, but then there are also a lot of them that use a big kit effectively. I'm not gonne try to say that EVERYTHING I do behind it warrents the massive size, but I do use every piece of it in an effective way most of the time. And as musically as I try to play, I can't overdo it and sound like an attention whore either, so I think I use it in a well balanced effective AND musical way. I just drew some circles in MSPaint that are relative in size. Go to sabian.com's kit builder if you wanna do it even easier. I do have a group I'm playing with at the moment. We have only recorded a demo and are still fine tuning our major album release. It is a concept band which plays Post-Hardcore style (but we are also progressive, in that we play pop to metal to ambiant etc...) The kit works nicely in this group. Here are our links... www.Our11thHour.com www.Myspace.com/Our11thHour I am also in a group that is very technical and progressive. This group is also a concept band. It is called A Corvus: www.Myspace.com/ACorvus
I use a 4 piece and a 5 piece so there's no reason to post my stuff here, but seriously toaster get your kit made already so I can see and then go steal it or something shit. I'm just not big on huge kits, honestly. My biggest kid is my 5 piece, with 2 crashes, a ride, a bell, hihats, a splash, and a chinasplash. and that's seriously big enough for me.
I've made my setup in the sabian.com kit builder, here's the link to my profile there: http://www.sabian.com/EN/community/member.cfm?memberID=17039 I have no idea how I could save that pic out to my harddrive and then label the drums and cymbals, so you'll have to live with the mouseover descriptions of the kitbuilder I'm afraid. There's two things that aren't right though, the 17" crash is a rock crash too, and the 13" Hihat is a bright hat as well, they didn't have that in the lists. I've got a Pearl Icon rack and all the hardware is Pearl too, I think they're the best hardware currently available, also the pedals are great. I've got a Pearl Eliminator P-2002B double pedal, Eliminator Hihat stand, and the 13" Hihat on the right sits on an Eliminator remote cable pedal. The drums are a beautiful DW collector's series kit, in gorgeous red spider pine finish. My kit was the last one they did with that special finish, right before they discontinued that finish, that makes it even more special
