Show Me Your "Monster" Kits! (let's say... 7 piece and up)

Here are my 3 kits - (2) A-kits and (1) e-kit. Hope you like.

My Maple Custom Abs.
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My Birch Custom Abs.
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My Dtxtreme (RHP) w/ III module
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yep, probably weird but it makes it sound super nice :D

ive had a fair few compliments about my drum sounds

one guy even came up to me and goes
"hmm, yamaha rydeen, not such a great kit is it"
i told him to play it
and by the end he was like
"huh yours sounds pretty good though^^"


Yeah but you ought to check what it sounds like from an audience perspective, on stage, with other instruments.
 
7 peice pearl session
 

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Have you taken any new pictures of that kit in the last three years?!

naw i dont think so. I just moved into a condo quite recently, so i had to move my drums to my dads house. We are still working out where to put them, and I am trying to get a carpet to put them on because they start sliding around. But maybe once thats done i can get some new pics.


Edit- Just kidding, I found one, but its not totally set up as you can see because we were very cramped up on stage. In fact it was a miracle we were able to set up as much as we did. But yeah, minus a few cymbals and drums...
 

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Here is mine at the Chicago drum show.
This great photo is a gift from Ronn Dunnett.
 

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Here is my ongoing affair, essentially a Yamaha Stage Custom in Raven Black from 1998 that I've just kept adding to and adding to. After a while with it in the configuration in the first photo, I bought a few more pieces and rearranged it to pay tribute to Neil Peart's setup, while still retaining some personal touches here and there.

Stage Custom: 8x8, 9x10, 10x12, 12x14, 14x16, 16x20
Snares: An old secondhand 5.5x14 steel snare, and a Peace 3.5x14 piccolo
An old refinished 16x16 Ludwig Classic floor tom with the bottom head removed (never got around to replacing it); moves between left side and "gong" mounted on the far right
Cymbals: 14" Zildjian Z-Macs as hi-hats; 15, 16, 18, 19" crashes; 20" K Custom ride: 2 x 8" splashes, 12" splash (eventually bought another and made x-hats of them), 3 chinas (1 by LP, 2 by Wuhan); a bell cymbal cut from the center of an old Pearl crash; ZXT Trashformer
Toys: Cowbells, chimes, LP Stealth Block, Rhythm Tech Tambourine, LP mini timbales

Since these photos, I've sold the min-timbs and bought a custom made 5x6 rack tom to replace them (I love tiny little drums, don't know why). Also, as you can see in the last two photos, I split the Gibraltar rack up to two separate sides, to make the whole thing easier to get on and off stage when I actually started taking the whole thing places with me.

Next planned purchase is a Pork Pie 7x13 Brass Patina snare or a Yamaha 6.5 x 13 Musashi Oak snare. Would love to hear comments from anyone who has either.

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Love all your kits, the set-ups are perfect in my opinion. Do you have any driver seat pics?

I don't have any of the A-kits from the drivers seat....but I'll see if I can take some of the maple cus. abs. this week (bir. cus. abs. is currently in cases)....here is a back shot of my Dtxtreme kit...

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heres mine. I change up the set up when I get bored. This was the Peart set up.
 

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hi my name is partsman and im a new member to this forum... i have a pearl ecx export custom maple drumset -10" 12" 13" mounted toms- 14" 16" floor toms- 22x18 bass- 14" snare-10" firecracker steal snare- lp mini timbales. i have zildjian A cymbals 10" splash- 14" fast crash- 16" thin crash- 18" crash ride- 19" crash- 20" medium ride- 21" sweet ride- 14" newbeat hits- 9.5" zelbel- 18" wuhan china
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hi my name is partsman and im a new member to this forum... i have a pearl ecx export custom maple drumset -10" 12" 13" mounted toms- 14" 16" floor toms- 22x18 bass- 14" snare-10" firecracker steal snare- lp mini timbales. i have zildjian A cymbals 10" splash- 14" fast crash- 16" thin crash- 18" crash ride- 19" crash- 20" medium ride- 21" sweet ride- 14" newbeat hits- 9.5" zelbel- 18" wuhan china
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Welcome to the forum

That's a unique set up, I like it.
Nice stuff.
What made you decide to set the floor toms like that?

My 2 aren't one right in front of the other either. The second is more to the side so I can just turn my hand and not my body to play it.
 
Welcome to the forum

That's a unique set up, I like it.
Nice stuff.
What made you decide to set the floor toms like that?

My 2 aren't one right in front of the other either. The second is more to the side so I can just turn my hand and not my body to play it.

i find it easyer to just reach out my arm than to turn my body its just more Comfortable
 
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YES! Favorite kit in this thread by far! Specs?

Thanks drumhedd...

24" Kicks
10, 12, 14 in front
13, 15 floors on left side
16, 18 floors on right
7 x 14 Segmented cocobola snare

4) 19" A Rock crashes
4) 19" Z Rock crashes
21" mega bell
20" ping ride on left
12" Z splash
8", 10", 12" EFX
6" zil-bel
20" Hi & low China
17" K China
18" Oriental
14" Z Dyna beats Closed on right
14" New Beat bottom/Z dyna beat botoom

6) Hart Acupads across the top
2) Dauz pads on each side of the snare
Polekat

All drums have MayEa mics
Kicks and Right side Floors have D112's
Rack toms and left floors have EV408's

Electronic rack has D4, DM5, RM8, Akai Sampler, Mackie mixer, EQ's Compressors, etc

and Custom Voelker rack..

I think that covers it.....
 
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