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