Anything gibraltar is pretty swish usually, I've got a load of gibraltar hardware on my drum rack and its top notch stuff and the stands always look rock solid aswell.
Good to hear about the drums man, and don't get dispondant about the double bass, its always best to start slowly anyway. In my opinion, solid sounding but slow double bass sounds a hell of a lot better than extremely sloppy 200bpm stuff. I don't go massively slow (usually between 170-180bpm) and thats a hell of a comfortable tempo for me and I usually get complimented on my (apparently elite) double bass skillset by other drummers in the crowd. I'm also a massive fan of Lamb Of God so I try and make double bass interesting rather than just straight 16th's for 5 minutes which seems to help lol.
Keep on trucking dude