Mixed Hardware?

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Is all of your hardware the same brand, or is it mixed, different brands?

Mine is very mixed.

Mapex: bass drum pedal, hi-hat stand, clamp
Pearl: tom holders (one long, one short), cymbal boom, floor tom legs, throne
Gibraltar: snare stand, cymbal booms, clamps, percussion mounts, bass drum lift
Gretsch: tom holder, floor tom legs
Tama: two single-braced, two-part cymbal stands
 
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Yep -mine's like a veritable mixed bag:
• Hi hat and bass drum pedal are DW5000
• Snare stand is Pearl
• one three way stand is Gibraltar, the other is a Pearl 1000 series with an AX38 three way adapter.
• One Yamaha old style boom stand
• All the tom holders(x2) are Pearl,
then I have various mini booms:
• Old style Yamaha x 1, new style Yamaha x1, Tama mini boom x1, couple of DW dog bones and cymbal grabbers
• stool is a DW
• cymbal felts are all Pearl...
all of this was bought as and when I could, and whenever a deal came up...
Claim to fame:
the Tama boom arm was given to me by Mike Portnoy!!! (I won it in a raffle at a clinic he did in Leeds back in the 90s)
J
 
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My hardware is a mix of:

DW
Pearl
Tama
Premier
Gibraltar
Sound Percussion
And a few wingnuts were replaced with Yamaha wingnuts.
 
All DW

I used to have a hodge podge of different brand hardware and over time, I upgraded to have it all be the same brand and better quality.

DW9000 series pedals, stands, hh, mounts, etc..
 
My stands/hardware is mixed.

Eliminator bass drum pedals.
DW Flat Base, Single, or DB stands (or Ludwig, or Gibraltar...).
DW (lighter version), or Ludwig hi-hat stand.
Pearl seat.

The brands are mixed, but I don't use different brands together in one set up.
 
Mapex
P380A double pedals
B330 boom stands (x2)
(don't know what model) Straight stand

Pearl
AX-28 clamp
CH-70 clamp

BigDog snare stand
 
Mine's all Gibraltar, and has been for many years. Cheaper than many other brands, and they've never let me down. Gotta love a company that specialises in only hardware.
 
I have enough dw9000 to outfit my gigging kit with a double pedal, HH stand, 2 boom stands, 1 straight, snare. At home if I have a double bass kit up with more cymbals then I also have PDP cymbal stands, Gibralter odds and ends, ludwig and pearl snare stands. I was a little OCD about matching all dw9000, but now I have so much stuff I don't really care and I mix it all the time.
 
DW 5000 BD pedal and hi-hat stand.

Gibraltar 9000 boom stands and clamps.

I have very little other percussion so far, but I wouldn't care what I got for that. I just want what I feel is best for my needs.
 
Mine's all over the place; Tama bass pedal, Yamaha hi hat and cymbal stands, Mapex tom holder, and a leftover cymbal stand from my previous Pacific kit.

When the Pacific junk finally dies it'll get replaced with Yamaha. I love their stands.
 
I have all Yamaha Cymbal stands, everything is modular, anything possible and nothing ever breaks.

Pedals DW9000, Love the bassdrum pedal, hate the 2 legged hi-hat, feels ok but not stable and a pain in the ass to pack/unpack, given the price very poor value seems fragile. In contrast mid range Tama Roadpro I had before was a far bettey design, thanks DW.
 
I have all Yamaha Cymbal stands, everything is modular, anything possible and nothing ever breaks.

Pedals DW9000, Love the bassdrum pedal, hate the 2 legged hi-hat, feels ok but not stable and a pain in the ass to pack/unpack, given the price very poor value seems fragile. In contrast mid range Tama Roadpro I had before was a far bettey design, thanks DW.

I bought the DW 5000 series hi hat stand a few months ago, but I went for the three legged variety. It's a very stable stand, as most three legged stands are.

Dennis
 
As long as it works, I'm happy. If my hardware has the same gauge, it gets put together as necessary. The important thing is that it works.

Would I like to have matched hardware? Absolutely. Is it necessary? Of course not.
 
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