PeelingFlesh’s Joe Pelletier - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 597

Stretch it to where it's really tight, make sure it's, you know, doesn't sound good. It's really DUN DUN! I thought playing with short beaters is gonna be really awkward, but kind of changed the game for me. Hey, what would you prefer? What do you think would be best for the ping? This is Joe from Peeling Flesh, back again with another Gear Masters. Uh, got a bunch of new ----, obviously. That's awesome. Let's give a little rundown. Um, same throne, same shell pack. Uh, Crush Sublime 2018 Gold Wrap. 10, 12, 16. Again, don't know the depths. Don't care. Um, this new snare is a 14 inch, 14 by 7 5. I'll actually pull it out real quick because it's really cool. So this one is an Honest Abe. So it's a cast iron. Oh, hi B. Get away from me. There's a cast iron, oxidized, chemically oxidized, 14 by 7 5. I want to say it's a 6 millimeter or something like that. Um, nice guy in Tulsa, Bill Z's. He's really awesome. A couple really good drummers that use his, uh, use all his drums. He makes snares, full kits, pretty much anything you need. Um, but we got together and got this one before this tour. Sounds great. Super heavy. It's like a 35 pound snare. It sucks. So I don't really know much about snares as far as die cast or triple flange. I'm still a new to that realm. I asked him personally since he's a drum guy. I said, hey, what would you prefer? What do you think would be best for the ping? He said triple flange. He said he has an oxidized cast iron snare shell ready to go. You just got to put ---- on it. And we did. Sounds great. It's a little different for what I'm used to, but slowly figuring it out. It does have a throw off right here too. So all the way off your snares, you got section one, section two, section three. That's the highest. I usually keep it on a second with a semi low tension on the snare wires. It rings a little bit. It's not too tight. Doesn't choke the sound too much. Um, love the snare. Just heavy. It's my only problem, but hey, it's hard. So Evans black chrome on the snare always every day. Can't change it. I don't know why. We are going Remo pinstripes on all the toms except for the kick. Kick head. I'm not really super particular. As long as it's a two ply, you put a kick patch on it. It usually runs really well. But the pinstripes are very forgiving when it comes to tuning. I'm not the best at tuning myself. It just takes me a little bit of tweaking, a little bit more time. But these are very forgiving. I can just tune them up, refresh them, squeeze them. And they usually sound really good right off the bat. Don't have any problems with them and they don't dent. I usually dent the G2 clears, the ECS2s, all Evans heads, at least on the toms. And they dent really easily. And I don't really like that. Um, but the Remos pinstripes have been doing champion work. Love them. They're great. So our driver currently is a really awesome ******* drummer. Used to play for IAM from Texas. I'm blessed to have his knowledge to help me tune my drums every day. Every once in a while. I wouldn't say every day, but if I need problems or if I have problems and I need them fixed, he'll come over here and help me tune them and get them sounding really good for me, which is a really good plus because I'm not the greatest at it personally. But I can do it. It's just, I tighten it up, stretch it to where it's really tight. Make sure it's, you know, it doesn't sound good. It's really, you know, really loud. Then just tune each lug down slightly, all evenly, just to make sure that everything balances, everything's good. And then obviously if you want to put some drum dots, moon gel, you know, Evans or the drum honey, any of those will help make a drum sound fairly well without crazy amount of tuning. New cymbals. Everything is Zildjian now. I know I said brand loyalty. I just, I don't like anything other than Zildjian anymore. It sounds really good. We can afford it. You know, that's what I would prefer to play. So that's what we do. There are a couple different ones on here. So 18 inch oriental. I think I had this one and this China. And maybe these two crashes for the last video. I just get warranties, get replacements. They're really awesome. 18 inch oriental, 18 inch projection, a custom mirrored with a 19 inch, a custom projection. A little bit thicker than your typical A customs. So they don't warp and don't crack as easily, at least for me. These are going on probably 70 shows, 60, 70 shows. No cracks, a little bit of warping, but they still sound really good. The Zoltan bill. This one is obviously the biggest hitter. The Zoltan, Z-U-L-T-A-N from Thoman, Thoman, EU, that German brand. It's like a $50 bill. Sounds crazy. I love it. I've been using it for a long time. I have been breaking a lot of splashes recently. So I had this one I pulled out. It's a little itty bitty ******* little six inch, little eight custom or four inch. I don't even know what it is. It's so small. It's really hard to hit. It sounds really cool, but I don't hit it all the time. I've broken both of my other Zildjian crashes or splashes. So Bryce from Shadow of Intent, bless his heart. Let me cop this by Zant's 10 inch. Sounds really good. I don't have any complaints, but it's not cracking. He's a great guy. Don't let me use it. So bless his heart. I want to say this one is the 10 inch. It is so faded. I honestly can't tell, but it's just their bigger Zil bell. It's just the bigger version of their little small little metal core Zil bell. It's not very loud. So you really have to hit it pretty decently hard to really get it to actually cut through. Compared to this one, this one screams over every symbol I have. But I like it. It's a good addition to do some little bell work, you know, little double bell work. It's really fun. Already 19 inch projection, of course. Still using the Crackhead Z custom ******* $80 ride. Probably won't ever switch on it unless it breaks, which I don't think it ever will. So get old school. It's a little dirty, a little rusted, a little little corrosion from five weeks on tour. But, you know, and then 19 inch ultra hammered. Still doing hard, still going hard. This is the one, the same China from the last video has not cracked, has not broken, has not nothing, still runs fire by me. Good old A customs faded to all hell because there's no logo. And we I clean them with some ---- that brightens it up, but it does tend to rub off the logo sometimes. But yeah, it's 14 inches. Classic a custom high hats. They run really well. Probably won't ever use anything else ever again. And I think that's all for symbols. Freshly, we can do pedals. So I know people were talking about the AXIS upgrades from Volta, Volta Innovations, great guy. So this is my fully custom pair from him. So turquoise blue, black steel. Pretty much fully customized to kind of how I wanted him to feel. You got logo laser engraved on every single footboard. Heel razors on both. I have a silver one on here just because one was getting a little wonky. So I had a replacement sent out to me. He's awesome. And then same thing with the drive shaft. Just I kind of fucked it up a little bit on accident and I had to get another another piece. So that's why the side's black. But best pedals I've ever felt. I never have any problems with them. I broke a beater. So I've been using the trick, the pro one, B beaters for the big foots. And I've been using it for a while. And when we played Oklahoma City, my left beater snapped in half. So I was pretty much like this. The rest of the set sucked. So then I had a buddy of mine cut it, the other one, the longer one to match how short it was. I thought playing with short beaters is gonna be really awkward, but kind of changed the game for me. I can feel my doubles underneath every single hit. I don't really like it. It's a crazy difference how much just shorting your beaters like an inch will make. It's kind of wild. So these are actually built by the guy that was making the upgrades. This is his custom, like actual made pair of pedals. He can do any color you want a color scheme. You want blue, red, black, gold, yellow, green. He can probably make you a camo pedal if you really wanted to. But he has top notch customer service. I literally couldn't think of any other pedal that I'd want to use. It's not too wide. They're not super heavy. The heel raisers make a big difference as far as leverage and really getting on top of the pedals. You can see right here, Volt Innovations has a stamp right there. It's like a little metal like engraved plate on each side of the pedal. They're really awesome. Tensioners. So your springs, usually you have a wing nut underneath or some apparatus of sorts like that. This is all just a turn. You turn it this way right to loosen it, turn it left to tighten it. Super easy. I haven't had anything, no problems on them. I max them out just because I like them really tight. It does kind of have what would be a variable leverage drive, which is called a VLB. Kind of like Actus pedals. This one's a little bit different. Typically more down. It feels different. It feels like you're choked up a little bit and you're more up. It feels like it's more open. It's kind of the opposite on these ones. So all the way down. This one's just settings particular. This one's in the middle. This one's all the way down. But when it's all the way down, it gives you the most actual width you can get from the pedals itself. When it's all the way up, it kind of chokes a little bit. It's probably more for like people that do swivel and stuff like that. I can't do swivel, so I don't do that. And that's pretty much the pedals. They're great. Check them out. The whole drum kit is on a Gibraltar. I think it's a Gibraltar PDP rack. There's DW parts on it. There's PDP parts on it. We're just kind of mixing it together. Bought it from a church drummer. Super awesome guy. Everything's pretty much the same as far as snare stand, hi-hat stand, tom legs, all that's exactly the same. We just got a nice big drum rack that everything sits on. Double leg, four legs, all the way across. All of my microphones, all of my cables, my loom, everything is all threaded through like on top of the drum rack. I can literally move my entire drum kit, mic'd up, cabled up, ready to get plugged in as a whole unit, as one. Saves setup time, getting on stage time a lot quicker. I've had a couple things break on it. Just people just not being careful with it, which is fine. But other than that, it's super sturdy. It ain't going nowhere. As long as you get it on stage, it's staying there. Microphones, still using the Beta 57A. Great snare mic. Probably won't ever use anything again unless we just kind of experiment. Everything else, except for the spot mics. There's spot mics underneath hi-hat, underneath both splashes, both sides, and then on the ride. They're just little road, little pencil mics. They work. They're really good. They don't really have any problems with them. On toms and overheads. Overheads are the SE-8, actual full pencils. Came with the kit. We have a case over there in the trailer that has, you know, overheads, spots for all four of the spot mics, and all four of the SE drum mics. SE-8, I think it's the V-Beats on tom, tom, and snare bottom. Underneath is another V-Beat. And we use a kick mic on the floor tom. It just adds a little bit more subbiness, a little bit more 808. Every lug is finger tight. I don't even use a drum key to tune my floor tom. It just thuds really loud, really deep, which we really like. SE mics, SE Electronics, great company. Probably won't use any other mics unless we spend a lot of ******* money on some mics that we don't have. But other than that, that's the microphone setup. And kind of part of the mic's kind of not, but just Roland RT-30K clip-on click kick trigger. I've used pedal triggers mounted underneath.