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My drumset as a 256-color bitmap:

Geez, think youve got enough cymbals? Youve got more than peart!

Everything in this setup serves a specific purpose: bilateral redundancy.

Everything has a functional symmetry: my snare is directly in front of me, with a bass drum pedal either side. My 10" and 12" toms are directly in front of that. The right and left hands each have a group consisting of: 13" high-hats, a 12" china, and an 18" crash. To the left of my left-hand high-hat there is a 10" snare (or high tom). To the right of my right-hand high-hat there is a 14" tom. The right-hand side also has an 18" ride and a 16" crash; ideally my left-hand side would have these options as well (pending space/hardware constraints).

The purposes of this setup are to encourage balance between my left and right hands (specifically to encourage my left hand technique), and to provide a symmetry to encourage balanced left and right foot patterns as I develop double bass technique.

Oh, and that big thing right in the middle is a 22" china with a 10" splash upside-down directly on top of it; a dark, trashy sound with no sustain. It's not really necessary, but I have a cymbal stand on the top of my double-tom mount. At a gig, I would probably just have a 12" splash there.

Are you kidding me? This is Peart's signature Paragon (Sabian) setup:

I was exaggeration with the peart comparison, but still... dayum, man!

Re-sizing/re-sampling images is such a hassle!
 

Thank you, I'm very pleased with this setup.
Here is a current photo... note the amount of drum gear my wife puts up with in the living room. I've included a detail of the mini-drumset.

so....where's the other bass drum?

I have a new double pedal. (My single pedal now hits whatever auxilliary gadgets I can clamp to a 3/8" rod.)
The red lines in the original illustration are where my legs would be positioned while on the two bass pedals.

so....where's the other bass drum?

Two pedals that hit the same drum, lj.

no, i don't think so, ib. there's only one pedal in font of that bass drum. it looks like he has the 2nd pedal hitting a tambourine at the moment......i was just asking if he has another bass drum that's not set up, or if he has yet to get it....and is practicing double bass technique without it. not that it really matters all that much.....

anyway...cool drums, flint. cute baby too. looks a lot like you. not that i think you're cute. those two comments should be processed separately.

A double pedal links the left pedal, via u-joints, to a second spring assembly and beater on the primary bass drum.

The other shot I've included here shows approximately what I see when sitting behind the kit (note the symmetry).

far out. i stand corrected. one bass drum. I've never seen that before. verrrry high tech.

The entire linkage between the two pedal mechanisms is made from machined aluminum (including the u-joints). You can pull the two beaters back and let them swing freely, next to each other, and it takes the left beater about ten swings through to start losing momentum to the point that it gets out of synch with the right pedal (in other words, the "action" is the same on both pedals, which allows using them equally).

That extra pedal out there hitting the tambourine used to be my primary pedal, until I got the 5000 series double pedal.

Your wife is VERY tolerant

Are the variable length bundled cardboard tubes one of those hollow tone slappy thing instruments? I've been wanting to make one of those out of suspended pvc lengths.

You know, apart from the ocean of cymbals, the kit is pretty standard. Bass, snare, double foretoms, one floor tom. Nice rig, that.