That's amazing! I am always the first one in and the last one out (just like the Marins) at our gigs. It used to take me an hour but now I have it down to 30 min. Please post some more and better pics, especially how you have your gear and pedal packed. Do you use hard or soft cases? I'd like to see what you are using. How many loads does it take to transport in and out? Sorry, I know that's a lot to ask but I am very interested in what you are doing.
I am using the stock Pearl Rhythm Traveler bass pedal. The footboard folds up on this pedal.
I hook the shock cord to a tension rod on the bass drum and I wrap it around the beater shaft and the footboard. I hook the other end of the shock cord to the opposing tension rod across the drum horizontally. The cord holds the beater and footboard lightly against the batter head.
I took a cymbal holder that fits into the Pearl 7/8 inch down tube receiver and I added a clamp cymbal holder to it as well as a clamp cowbell holder.
The booms on both cymbal holders are only 1 foot long. The ride/splash/cowbell holder plugs into the bass drum with a memory lock. I never have to adjust the holder.
I clamped a cymbal holder to the standard Pearl double tom-tom stand. The stand stays set and ready to slide the toms on and off with memory locks to ensure proper placement.
I never break down the stand.
I use the stock Pearl Rhythm Traveler lightweight snare and hi-hat stands.
I have a 3 foot Gator soft hardware bag. The rug folds flat and goes in first. The double tom-tom stand fits if I lower the cymbal holder straight down in the clamp. That is all that I have to do to fit the tom-tom stand in the bag. The cymbal holder is marked so that when I raise it up again it always goes in the same place.
The hi-hat stand fits by unscrewing the rod and lowering it into the stand tube. I never have to adjust the hi-hat stand height.
The ride/splash/cowbell stand fits in the bag by turning the cowbell 180 degrees toward the tube.
Three floor tom legs and I'm done.
The bag can be easily carried with one hand. 40LBS approx
I use loose fitting soft bags for the toms and snare that were designed for suspension mounts. I don't have suspension mounts so the toms fall into the bags. I don't use a bag for the bass drum.
Three trip carry in.
The 8 inch bass drum can be carried with one hand with the foot pedal tied up and attached,
Bass drum and hardware bag are the first trip.
Throne and cymbal bag are second trip.
Toms and snare stack and they are all carried on the last trip.
The rack toms are each only seven inches tall and the floor tom is only twelve inches tall. 5 1/2 inch snare.