Now that you know where my approach to my playing style is, I'll explain my setup (and my future setup). Basically, you can see that the toms are spaced very close together and flow into each other. This is to promote natural arm movement around the arc of the kit. Basically my arms can stay in one spot, and when I rotate my upper body around, the heads of the sticks are in the center of all the toms (except the piccolos on the upper row). Less arm movement = less stress/tension = less fatigue = more power/endurance. Now, granted, I don't just do runs up and down the toms just by moving my upper body. It's just nice to be able to play around the kit without having to unnaturally reach in or out for a drum or cymbal.
Here are my current specs:
22x18 bass drum
14x5.5 snare
16x13 tom
14x11 tom
12x9 tom
10x8 tom
8x8 tom
10x3.5 piccolo tom
10x3.5 piccolo tom
6x7 piccolo tom
Cymbals:
14" Zildjian K Mastersound Hi-Hats
22" Zildjian K Ride
8" Avedis Zildjian Splash
14" Avedis Zildjian Thin Crash (I use it as a low pitched splash)
18" Zildjian K Dark Crash Medium Thin
18" Zildjian K Dark Crash Thin
Custom made 16" Wuhan China Stack
Hardware:
Pearl Eliminator Belt Drive
Pearl Eliminator Hi-Hat Stand
Pearl ICON Curved Front Rack
Various other Pearl and Mapex stands
Accessories:
Toca Players Series Cowbell (on the left foot)
I feel like posting pictures now, so I'll explain my tunings later.
Here's my concept drawing of the future kit. The only cymbals in this are the hi hats, because I had to get my tom layout worked out in that area.
Here is my pedal layout. I'm not sure in what order the accessories will be, but all that's listed will be there for sure.
This post has got to be long, so I'll post the future specs here in a bit.
Stay tuned!