my superstars... and my other kit.

more pics to come soon from photo bucket.

Nice little kit there! Some vintage cymbals ? Looks great ! Can't beat black, never goes out of date !

well its actually blue metallic fade, but you cant tell in that pic. and yea the rides are 70s avedis, and the hihats are 70s new beats

Nice tama set...

I'd pull the EC2s and just throw some Clear Emperors on there.... But that's just me.

sorry for the big pic but my internet is being stupid and this is the only pic i have available to show the color.

and those are my old zbts

yeah i was actually thinking about going will emperors. but whats with all the pics suddenly getting bigger... ill look into it

here we go

my little kit

Fantastic cymbal selection on the Superstars, man. I love that dull, no-logo look. Now just get some coated heads...

What's the second set?

Nice second set ! I love that little floor tom to kick conversion you have done ! Looks really great!

I like the nice tight set up of the Tama, and the other kit looks great too, simple but gets the job done!

yea the little kit is just so much more portable and its really comfortable to play

how's the little kick sound? can you get a decent low end out of it?

Matt wrote:how's the little kick sound? can you get a decent low end out of it?

it sounds really punchy, but I have almost found a way to get just enough low end out of it, but I'm still experimenting.

yeah, i'd imagine it would be fairly easy to get punchy but a little trickier to achieve a nice low end.

yea the 16" diameter doesn't give you a lot of range

I can only imagine. I feel that way even with my 20" sometimes, then i just mess with the tuning (even more) and can eventually find a sound that i can live with.

Matt wrote:I can only imagine. I feel that way even with my 20" sometimes, then i just mess with the tuning (even more) and can eventually find a sound that i can live with.

I would think that a 20 could be fairly versatile considering you could tune it low to be like a 22 or high to be like an 18

yeah, i mean, it's easy to get a higher pitched sound, it's just i don't really like the boppy kick sound right now, so it gets a bit frustrating at times.

Matt wrote:yeah, i mean, it's easy to get a higher pitched sound, it's just i don't really like the boppy kick sound right now, so it gets a bit frustrating at times.

oh well that makes sense, what's the depth on your bass?

16" which i like the feel of the depth and will probably stick with a 16" depth whenever the glorious day comes that i get a new kit, but i'll probably get a 22x16 or MAYBE even a 24x16....

I'd say don't go any high than 22 just due to set up a feel, but if you want a really booming kick go for the 24

yeah, i'll probably stick with the 22" because like you said, the setup of a rack tom with a 24 could be trickier than with a 22, plus i feel like the 24 could be trickier to control.

but hey eventually if you really wanted to you could set up 24" auxiliary kick off to the left controlled by a slave pedal. thats what i did for a little while with the 16" kick

yeah, that would be sick, kind of like stanton moore does...