I’ve been using the same basic setup live for a couple years now. keith anderson of risen drums made the kit. its the first kit he built for me and it might just be the only kit i’ll ever need for live use. after meeting keith at a show in st. paul, and talking about drums for a while, i was really pumped about letting him build a kit for me. i had wanted to do a wood hoop kit since playing joey parish’s kit on a tour a few years earlier. i had keith build me this kit just in time for the summer tour with “smitty” and friends.
it was perfect. every piece of the kit sounded just as i had hoped. so like i said, i won’t be looking for a new live set anytime soon.
to my right i have a sampler, a metronome, and a mixer. the sampler is a roland spd-s sampling drum pad. it has nine drum pads that allow me to trigger sounds and loops. it will hold about 512mb of data and roland has a really great audio compressor which means plenty of room. we’ve been using roland hardware samplers since we bought our first sp-202 in 2000. they have easily been the most stable part of our band. the metronome is a roland dr beat and the mixer is a beringer rack mixer.
i’m basically just listening to either the loops hogan is running, the loops from the spd-s, or my metronome. sometimes i’m using all three but not very often.