FINALLY! Pics of my kit!

[joshisaces]

It's a Tama Rockstar DX.

22x18 (Aquarian SK I Batter/Remo Ebony Pinstripe Reso w/ 5in. Porthole)
12x10 (Aquarian Studio X Batter/Stock Reso)
13x11 (Aquarian Studio X Batter/Stock Reso)
16x16 (Aquarian Studio X Batter/Stock Reso)

SNARES:
13x7 Pork Pie Pig Lite Amber Acrylic Snare with full tube lugs (Evans HD Genera Dry/ Hazy 300)

14x6 Tama Steel Snare (Evans Power Center Reverse Dot Batter/Evans Genera Reso)

10x6 PDP 805 Black on black side snare (Stock/Stock)


CYMBALS:

6 in. Stagg Black Metal Medium Bell
10 in. Homemade China Splash
13 in. Sabian AA Fusion hats
14 in. Stagg DH China
16 in. Agazarian China
16 in. Sabian AAXplosion Crash
18 in. Sabian AA Rock Crash
18 in. Zildjian ZHT China
20 in. Sabian AA Medium-Thin Crash as crash/ride


HARDWARE:
DW 7000 Double Pedal.
Tama & PDP cymbal stands
Gibraltar drum throne


Here it is!

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Muh kicks...
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Something I made to hold my ipod. The stick holder I made too. Not at all a professional job though. You'll never believe what I made them out of...

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BEST. CHINA. EVER.
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[Khaine88]

wow love the kit, looks very comfortable to play, how do you find the aquarian tom heads?

[joshisaces]

wow love the kit, looks very comfortable to play, how do you find the aquarian tom heads?


Thanks! :D
Aquarian makes great drum heads, but I think these are a little too open-sounding for me :(
I finally learned how to tune so they're sounding pretty good now nevertheless. :]

[wolfmoon]

As I have said before.. Nice looking set up. I have the same exact set.. same color, same sizes. I like the way you got set up. Looks powerful.

[wy yung]

I love those photos. You can lie in bed at night staring at your kit. Great. It brings back memories. Nice kit too.

[joshisaces]

I love those photos. You can lie in bed at night staring at your kit. Great. It brings back memories. Nice kit too.

hahaha did you do that as a kid? ;P
I'd prefer my own music room as we have a bunch of instruments in my house, but my parents decided to use one of the bedrooms as an exercise room... THAT THEY NEVER USE! Dx

[HeadRush]

hahaha did you do that as a kid? ;P
I'd prefer my own music room as we have a bunch of instruments in my house, but my parents decided to use one of the bedrooms as an exercise room... THAT THEY NEVER USE! Dx

my parents don't even let me have my drums in the house unless the weather is unbearably hot (I live in Arizona so that's about three or four months of the year)
I'm forced to keep the drums in the garage along with all my other musical instruments
and that makes recording a real chore

[805Drummer]

Nice kit! I've seen it so many times in video, but finally pictures!

And yes, I do stare at my kit right before I go to bed. I just like admiring it, drum sets are beautiful. If I had any nicer a set, I wouldn't be able to fall asleep!

[joshisaces]

my parents don't even let me have my drums in the house unless the weather is unbearably hot (I live in Arizona so that's about three or four months of the year)
I'm forced to keep the drums in the garage along with all my other musical instruments
and that makes recording a real chore

Oh snap. I have it good don't I?
Well, it gets really hot in my room due to the sun always shining my room's way, and I live in Florida, which is arguably just as hot as Arizona ;P

[joshisaces]

Nice kit! I've seen it so many times in video, but finally pictures!

And yes, I do stare at my kit right before I go to bed. I just like admiring it, drum sets are beautiful. If I had any nicer a set, I wouldn't be able to fall asleep!

Whenever I bring gear home at night I can't sleep at all XD
I'm basically counting down how many more hours till I get to use that piece of gear. haha ;]!

[805Drummer]

Whenever I bring gear home at night I can't sleep at all XD
I'm basically counting down how many more hours till I get to use that piece of gear. haha ;]!

It's even worse when you have to wait for it ship, and then tracking it on Fedex, refreshing every 10 seconds...

[wy yung]

hahaha did you do that as a kid? ;P
Dx

I still do. :-)

A while back I kept waking in the early hours for what seemed to be no reason. That Sunday when I changed my sheets I found a tambourine! :-)

Sad really.

[joshisaces]

It's even worse when you have to wait for it ship, and then tracking it on Fedex, refreshing every 10 seconds...

Ahhhh, yes! Except for the part about refreshing ever 10 secs. because I've come to realize that it doesn't ever change XD

Or barely, that is...

[joshisaces]

I still do. :-)

A while back I kept waking in the early hours for what seemed to be no reason. That Sunday when I changed my sheets I found a tambourine! :-)

Sad really.

Oh my God! I've found so many drum keys and wingnuts in my sheets. I slept with my china right next to me before! hahah

[805Drummer]

Ahhhh, yes! Except for the part about refreshing ever 10 secs. because I've come to realize that it doesn't ever change XD

Or barely, that is...

It depends. UPS is good about that, and keeps their tracking well updated.

Fedex usually lets you know when it ships, but updates like, every week, so often, it'll get to my house before I even know it's in my area.

And USPS barely has a tracking system. Not that anyone uses that.

[805Drummer]

Oh, and where's your 805 side snare hiding, the little devil?

[wy yung]

Oh my God! I've found so many drum keys and wingnuts in my sheets.! hahah

Make sure you wear pajamas!!!

[joshisaces]

Oh, and where's your 805 side snare hiding, the little devil?

I took the pics about a week ago. Got the side snare 2 days ago second hand for $5!!!!! I decided to give it to my church because I don't really need 2 snares. I'mbring it home all the time though to fool around on.

[Cymbalmajimbal]

great looking kit man. im so jealous of your cymbals. i dont know how you do it but if i had my drums in my room nobody would ever get any sleep.

[joshisaces]

great looking kit man. im so jealous of your cymbals. i dont know how you do it but if i had my drums in my room nobody would ever get any sleep.

I don't play when people are sleeping. If they don't want me to play, they simply tell me...

EDIT: This was actually my 666's post.

[theuntitleddrummer]

sweet kit man
lol it was funny how you said Gibraltar throne but it wasn't in the pics
must be an invisible one
but thats for sharing gotta love those aquarians!

[joshisaces]

sweet kit man
lol it was funny how you said Gibraltar throne but it wasn't in the pics
must be an invisible one
but thats for sharing gotta love those aquarians!

It's sort of because I was standing on it most of the pictures ;)

This is the throne:
http://www.woodbrass.com/images/woodbrass/SIEGE+BATTERIE+GIBRALTAR+9608.JPG

[zepplin92]

hey man, i dig that kit looks super cool, how do you like that pork pie snare, and 20AA as a crash ride, kit looks great, keep rocking.

[joshisaces]

hey man, i dig that kit looks super cool, how do you like that pork pie snare, and 20AA as a crash ride, kit looks great, keep rocking.

The pork pie sounds great man! I got it for a ridiculous price too. $120! It was originally over $200...

The 20" AA MT Crash sounds amazing! You can hear it in this video on the right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M2J2lxjWw8

Thanks for the compliments. I've invested my life in to these drums. I'm hopefully gonna celebrate with a new Tama superstar hyperdrive before the new years in 2009 ;]!!

[zambizzi]

Sweet! You've got a great setup there. You must be tall and/or have really long arms, those hi-hats are in the upper-atmosphere!

[joshisaces]

Sweet! You've got a great setup there. You must be tall and/or have really long arms, those hi-hats are in the upper-atmosphere!

Actually, I'm about 5'9, and I usually do have them a little lower. I don't know why they were so high in this picture. I like them higher than the normal person, but not that high ;)

[eddiehimself]

Nice kit, but i really am amazed you can possibly think those heads are too "open sounding"!

[805Drummer]

Nice kit, but i really am amazed you can possibly think those heads are too "open sounding"!

They actually are really open-sounding. In fact, my friend and I were at Guitar Center last year, and he was looking to buy new heads. I suggested the Studio-X's, because as the name implies, it would sound like a studio. That wasn't the case, although they still sound very good.

[HeadRush]

Oh snap. I have it good don't I?
Well, it gets really hot in my room due to the sun always shining my room's way, and I live in Florida, which is arguably just as hot as Arizona ;P

oh I'm sorry you have to handle that terrible humidity!
haha

[Cymbalmajimbal]

I don't play when people are sleeping.

really.............?

[joshisaces]

really.............?

hahaha nope! :D

and Headrush:
It is very hard to put up with. :P

[805Drummer]

My DIY Electronic Drum Set

http://i662.photobucket.com/albums/uu345/VicFirth1985/drumset2.jpg

That's really cool and all, but make your own thread.

[BattleArmor]

Thanks! :D
I think these are a little too open-sounding for me



Wait a second.

Maybe I need to get my eyes checked , but aren't those the heads with pieces of foam on the edges to make them more of a thump rather then an "open sound"?

Maybe I am confused about what you mean by "open sound" whatever that IS.

[walkera1962]

Your 3rd shoe from the left to right is 3.5 degrees to the right,please correct.thanks

[joshisaces]

Wait a second.

Maybe I need to get my eyes checked , but aren't those the heads with pieces of foam on the edges to make them more of a thump rather then an "open sound"?

Maybe I am confused about what you mean by "open sound" whatever that IS.

Actually, they're not foam. I honestly don't know what the ring is made of, but it feels like just a piece of paper. I'm guessing it's for looks more than it's for sound, but I'm probably wrong.

The foam ring you're talking about is on the Superkicks...

[joshisaces]

Your 3rd shoe from the left to right is 3.5 degrees to the right,please correct.thanks

Eh, I think it'll have to do... for now anyways ;D

[joshisaces]

With the side snare, for 805drummer...

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[805Drummer]

With the side snare, for 805drummer...



Very nice, very nice.

The only thing that I don't get is how they don't sell one in black and red anymore...they're discontinued. And the series one that you have has the old 805 logo, which confuses me even more.

[joshisaces]

Very nice, very nice.

The only thing that I don't get is how they don't sell one in black and red anymore...they're discontinued. And the series one that you have has the old 805 logo, which confuses me even more.

It's probably really old. The person who sold it wasn't even the person who owned it. It was her son I think... She sold it without his permission XD

[fusssion]

Wait a second.

Maybe I need to get my eyes checked , but aren't those the heads with pieces of foam on the edges to make them more of a thump rather then an "open sound"?

Maybe I am confused about what you mean by "open sound" whatever that IS.

I'm glad you said something ........I don't get it ....Studio X too open ?! No way! Nice heads, but not TOO OPEN ?? Far from it ......

[eddiehimself]

They actually are really open-sounding. In fact, my friend and I were at Guitar Center last year, and he was looking to buy new heads. I suggested the Studio-X's, because as the name implies, it would sound like a studio. That wasn't the case, although they still sound very good.

Nah, i've heard some, they really kill the drum sound. You sort of just get a toned "thump". Definetly not open. You want open, try an ambassador/diplomat or G+/G1 combo (or like i have an ambassador/G1 combo :p)

[joshisaces]

Nah, i've heard some, they really kill the drum sound. You sort of just get a toned "thump". Definetly not open. You want open, try an ambassador/diplomat or G+/G1 combo (or like i have an ambassador/G1 combo :p)

Hm, yeah, I guess so... I think next I'm gonna go with remo ps3's on the toms.

[805Drummer]

It's probably really old. The person who sold it wasn't even the person who owned it. It was her son I think... She sold it without his permission XD

Wow, that must suck for the son! But they still sell that exact model, even.

Nah, i've heard some, they really kill the drum sound. You sort of just get a toned "thump". Definetly not open. You want open, try an ambassador/diplomat or G+/G1 combo (or like i have an ambassador/G1 combo :p)

The performance IIs are the "thump" ones...Studio-X's are, as described by Aquarian:

Studio-X™: A clear, single ply, medium weight drumhead with a light weight muffle ring adhered to the underside. This helps to eliminate some unwanted high frequencies while still maintaining a warm open sound.

[joshisaces]

Wow, that must suck for the son! But they still sell that exact model, even.



The performance IIs are the "thump" ones...Studio-X's are, as described by Aquarian:

Studio-X™: A clear, single ply, medium weight drumhead with a light weight muffle ring adhered to the underside. This helps to eliminate some unwanted high frequencies while still maintaining a warm open sound.

I don't think it exactly fits within that description but whatever... XD

[805Drummer]

I don't think it exactly fits within that description but whatever... XD

Maybe it's just the resos you have or the way you have them tuned. Like I said, my friend's kit has these heads, and they sound just like the description, and sound pretty nice. If only he wasn't using my old PDP stock snare drum head for his snare xD

[DrewTheShoe]

Seems like those Studio-Xs should be like PS3s, being that they're both just heads with thin muffling rings on the bottom of them. If I were you, I'd try something different. Maybe an unmuffled single ply? Maybe a two-ply? Maybe some nice cardboard Hydraulics?

In other news, I really dig your kit. The one-up two-down combo has always been attractive to me, I just have never had the opportunity to have one... :(

[wolfmoon]

The Powerstrokes are more muffled than the Studio X's... I think..

[joshisaces]

The Powerstrokes are more muffled than the Studio X's... I think..

Yes, they are. I've tried them and feel in love, but I tried them on a pearl masters so that might have influenced it. Such a great tone from them!