Live drum setup



This kit is actually a 7 piece Gretsch Catalina Birch:
22" kick - 8,10,12,16" toms - 14" Pearl Sensitone snare - with a
14" floor tom that I don't use very often.

The cymbals are Sabian 14" hats, 20" ride, 16 and 17" AA Studio crashes, 18" Ozone crash, 8" Zilbel and a Han Chi mini china.

I use Vater Fatback sticks, mostly Gibralter hardware, and a DW 5000 double kick pedal. Occasionaly, I use a Pearl Eliminator remote hi-hat system, instead of the regular hats, positioning them between the 8/10 rack toms.

The setup pictured is for Living Daylight, but with The Ravens and other fill in gigs, I usually just play a 4 piece with 2 or 3 cymbals.

Lots of percussion lying around the house, including: LP Ice Bell, Remo Spring Drum, Pearl tone block, broken splashes and crashes, shape drums, shakers, tamborines, claves, vibraslap, triangle, cowbell, foghorn, sleighbells, dinner gong, toy glockenspiel, yobbo trumpet...


Practice setup



This is a Pearl Rhythm Traveller, and has mesh heads that make hardly any noise... which is "Sharehouse-tastic". I have used this a few times on quiet gigs, with 'real' heads and more expensive cymbals.

Roland SPDS Sample Pad



Great for adding any sound you could ever imagine to your music. Also handy for rehearsing or writing sessions, when you don't wanna set up the real deal!


Korg Triton Extreme Workstation



This was an absolute bargain! As far as synths go, this can do pretty much anything. It has so many great sounds, and the sequencer / sampler have been really handy. Most of the CDMS tracks were recorded on the Triton.


Ibanez guitar



Many compositions have taken place on this old friend, with probably not enough string changes along the way. Ocassionaly follows me to teaching, so I can jam with students... be it "Crazy Frog", Wolfmother, or a song we write together..