Gear

Live Set-up with Aaron Watson

DW Collector's Series Maple Drum Set in White Marine Pearl:

  • 18x22" Kick
  • 9x12" Rack Tom
  • 12x14" Floor Tom
  • 13x15" Floor Tom

Snare Drums

  • 8x14" Ludwig Black Magic with DW Die Cast Hoop
  • 6.5x14" Pacific Ace with Gibralter Wood Hoop

DW Hardware and Pedals

  • 5000 HiHat Stand
  • 5000 Turbo Bass Drum Pedal
  • 2 - 9000 Series Double Cymbal/Tom Stands
  • 9000 Series Cymbal Boom Stand

Zildjian Cymbals

  • 14" A Custom HiHats
  • 2 - 20" Zildjian A Custom Crashes
  • 22" Zildjian K Custom Medium Ride
  • (alternate between) 18" A Custom Crash or 70s A Ride with rivets.

Remo Drum Heads

  • CS on snare top
  • Ambassador Snare Side bottom
  • Coated Emperor on tops of toms
  • Clear Emperor on bottoms of toms
  • Coated Power Stroke 3 on kick batter
  • Smooth White CS Kick front

Implements

  • Vic Firth 55A American Sound Drum Sticks
  • Vic Firth Steve Gadd Brushes
  • Vic Firth Rutt 606
  • Vic Firth SD6 Swizzle American Sound
  • Vater Monster Brush

In Ear Monitoring/Click Track System

  • Yamaha Mixer
  • Shure SCL5 In Ears
  • Alesis Drum Machine
  • Pelican 1600 case w/foam

ATA Cases

  • 2 Custom made ATA Drum Cases by Western Audio Works

Studio Drum Set

DW Collector's Series Maple VLT in White Marine Pearl
(straight shells, no reinforcement rings)

  • 14x22" Kick
  • 9x13" Rack Tom
  • 14x16" Floor Tom

Vintage Slingerland Black Chrome

  • 14x22" Kick
  • 8x12" Rack Tom
  • 16x16 Floor Tom

Selection of Snare Drums

  • 6x14" DW Maple
  • 5.5x14" Craviotto Limited Edition Birdseye Maple Solid Shell
  • 6.5x14" Slingerland COB Gene Krupa Model
  • 5x14" WFL Mahogany with Maple rings
  • 4x15" Tama Kenny Aronoff Track Killer
  • 8x14" Ludwig Black Magic
  • 4x14" Yamaha Nouveau Brass
  • 5x14" Ludwig Acrolite
  • 6.5x14" Pearl Sensitone Bronze
  • 4x14" World Max Hammered Brass
  • 3x13" Maple Piccolo
  • 6.5x14" Pacific Ace NOB

Optional Kick Drum Sounds

  • 16x18" DW Collector's Series Maple Kick
  • 14x28" 50s Ludwig Kick
  • 14x20" Kick

Selection of Cymbals

  • 22" Zildjian Hi Definition Ride
  • 21" Zildjian Armand Ride
  • 20" Zildjian K Custom Dark Ride
  • 18" Zildjian K Session Crash
  • 18" Zildjian K Custom Dark Crash
  • 14" Zildjian Vintage Istanbul Hihats
  • 10" ZiCo Vintage Splashes as Hihats
  • 14" Sabian Jack DeJohnette Hihats
  • 14" Paiste Formula 602 Hihats