What is your cymbal Setup?

nacdrummer3

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My cymbal setup is so great for me, and i play metal, and i always find a way to hit all these cymbals in each song. But its just not hitting for the sake of hitting. Every hit is carefully planned out.

Sabian 21" AA Raw Bell Dry Ride
Sabian 20" AA Rock Ride
Sabian 18" AAX Rock Crash
Sabian Max Stax splashes 7" 9" 11"
Sabian 12" AA Splash
Sabian 19" AAX X-treme chinese

Zildjian 19" Avedis Projection Crash
Zildjian 18" Avedis Projection Crash
Zildjian 16" Avedis Projection Crash
Zildjian 19" Oriental China Trash
Zildjian 19" K custom Dark Chinese
Zildjian 14" Avedis Mastersound Hi-Hats

Meinl 14" Classic China

And hopefully comming soon

a zil-bell

anyways tell me what you think of my cymbal setup
or tell me your cymbal setup
pictures would be nice to
unfourtunately some of those cymbals i mentioned are getting repaired right know due to some unfourtunate gigging accidents and letting people pack them away for me
anyways

keep it thrash
kyle
 
I got an old one but i lost it when transfering files to another computer. But once evrything is all fixed up and ready to go ill post a pic. It has such a nice balanced sound to it even with the two different companies. To go along with the cymbal setup i also got an alright
pearl export 8 piece

two snares,
two rack toms,
two floor toms,
and two bass drums

pics comming soon
 
Thats a heck of a setup man, I'm a cymbal whore too but you have me beat.

I use All Zildjian:
Left to right:
10" A custom Splash
17" medium Crash
14" Rock Hats (Or 15" medium Hats)
6" zil bel on top of a 9" ice bell
20" medium thin crash
8" K splash
10" K china (Cut from a 16" k Crash)
10" EFX#1 with a 7" Stagg Ice bell on top
18" Rock Crash
22" Z custom ride (Or 21" Rock Ride)
20" Oriental China (Or 17" Wuhan china or 18" ZBT China)
28" Wuhan Gong
(Depending on the set I'm playing the 18" crash and the ride may be switched)
 
Very nice setup man. Good to see another cymbal whore....lol
glad to see no comments saying that it is uneccessary to

anyways

keep it thrash

kyle
 
Looks like a good set up man. I really like those Max Splashes they sound great. This is what I use primarily for most of my playing and I also have a separate set up for drum n bass that I play. They're all Sabian and here they are:

Regular Set Up

14" AAX Fast Hats
19" AAX Dark Crash (x2)
19" HHXplosion Crash
19" Devastation China
20" or 21" Prototype Ride
20" HHX Legacy O-Zone Ride

D n B Set Up

12" VFX Mini-Hats
14" VFX Crash
16" VFX Crash
19" VFX Ride
V-Wave
20" HHX Legacy O-Zone Ride
20" Vintage Zyn Ride (from England)
10" HHX Raw O-Zone Splash Prototype over 10" Alien Disc (Used as Aux Hats)
10" Chopper
 
hows that 19" devastation china working for you? I was going to get that but i ended up getting the oriental china trash instead
 
$89.95 ZIL-A20001 06" Zil-Bel
$119.95 ZIL-K1209 09" K Custom Hybrid Splash
$114.95 ZIL-A20542 10" A Custom Splash
$164.95 ZIL-A20536 14" A Custom Fast Crash
$234.95 ZIL-A20818 18" A Custom EFX Crash
$259.95 ZIL-K1217 17" K Custom Hybrid Crash
$199.95 ZIL-A0616 16" Oriental China 'Trash'
$249.95 ZIL-Z40590 22" Z Custom Power Ride
$299.95 ZIL-K0829 13" K/Z Special Hi-Hat (Old Top / New Bottom Set)
$269.90 ZIL-Z40131 13" Z Custom Dyno Beat Hi-Hat (Old Top / Bottom Pair)

not the biggest collection, but its served me quite well!! ill probably look into a k custom ride and maybe a 19" hybrid crash.
 
hows that 19" devastation china working for you? I was going to get that but i ended up getting the oriental china trash instead

I personally love this china. I've tried out just about every Sabian model and for some reason I keep coming back to this one. I think it's the B8 alloy with the very wide lip. It cuts like a mother and is great. I was actually mistaken I own the 17" model versus the 19". It's short, quick, raunchy, trashy and awesome :)
 
I'll satisfy the rabid hungering for pics:

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Left to right:

10" Sabian Radia Splash
16" Paiste Signature Full Crash
14" Avedis Zildjian New Beats (Brilliant)
8" A Custom Splash
10" Bell Disc (cut down from a badly cracked 16" sound reflector crash)
18" Paiste Signature Full Crash
10" A custom Splash
18" Paiste 2002 Full Crash
21" Sabian HHX Dry Ride
20" Sabian HHX Chinese
19" Paiste New Signature DE Crash
20" Paiste Signature Reflector Dry Ride
19" K Custom Hybrid China (cracked, not shown).

The Hybrid and Signature dry ride aren't usually on the kit, but I set them up here to give me some more colours recording.

I really want to get a full set of Sabian and Paiste eventually, but paying off the rest of my DW is a priority.
 
Sabian B8 Crash Ride (18")
Zildjian ZHT Fast Crash (16")
Paiste Sound Formula Thin China (20")
Paiste Alpha Sound Edge hi-hats (14")
 
Thread hasnt been done before?

22" Zildjian A Ride
16" Zildjian A thin Crash (love it to death)
16" HHX Evolution Crash
14" AAX Studio Crash
14" Wuhan China
10" Paiste Pst Splash
14" B8 Hi Hats.
 
13 a custom ms / avedis ms hats
19 k custom hybrid crash
20 k custom riveted dark ride (crash)
20 avedis ping ride
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other:
5 a custom mill-bell
10 a custom splash
16 a custom projection crash
18 oriental chinese
 
Ok I'll play along-

All Zildjian:
14" K custom dark hats (2 bottoms)
19" K thin dark crash
22" K custom medium ride
19" K custom hybrid crash

And a stack of broken metal that includes a 14" sabian sound control crash and a 14" wuhan china that looks like a shark took a bite out of. It sounds pretty cool.

I recently started buying Dream Bliss cymbals and they are awesome. I bought a pair of 16' hats that are sooo nice. And I have a 20" crash/ride on the way.
 
14" AA reg. hats
15" HH sound control crash
16" AA med. crash
17" AAX dark crash (not in the photo)
20" AA med. ride
21" HH RBDR ride

Philippe

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Zildjian 14" NewBeats
21" Sabian, Raw Bell Dry ride
16, 17, inch A crashes
16 Sabian Studio Crash
And a Masterwork Thalles series 18 inch crash/ride with rivets.
 

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