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**pearlreference7101** · 11-24-2011, 10:17 PM

UPDATED PIC ON PAGE 2!

Here are pics of the current edition of my Reference. I've added a couple of upgrades recently, including the 13x3" Maple Piccolo Snare, and my 21" A Series Sweet Ride that I purchased at PASIC a couple weeks ago.

Pearl Reference 6-piece in Scarlet Fade Finish:
10x08" Tom
12x09" Tom
14x14" Floor Tom
16x16" Floor Tom
22x18" Bass Drum
14x5" Snare

Side Snare:
13x3" Pearl Maple Piccolo Snare in Natural Maple finish

Cymbals: (All Zildjian)
21" A Series Sweet Ride
19" K Custom Hybrid Crash
18" A Custom Fast Crash
17" K Custom Hybrid Crash
16" A Custom Crash
16" Oriental China Trash
14" A Custom Hihats
10" A Series Splash

Hardware: (All Pearl)
DR503C Icon Curved Rack
4xCH2000S Cymbal Holders
2xCH1000 Cymbal Holders
1xCH70 Cymbal Holder
2xTH2000S Tom Holders
5xPCX100 Clamps
3xPCL-100 Clamps
H-2000 Hihat Stand
S-2000 Snare Stand
S-700L Snare Stand
DCL300P Hihat Drop Clutch

Pedal:
DW7002 Double Bass Pedal w/ DW HardCore Beaters

Heads: (All Remo, except side snare)
Bass Drum - Coated PowerStroke III w/ 2 Falams Patches (batter), Stock Coated PowerStroke III w/ Pearl & Reference Logo (Reso) with black KickPort
Toms - Clear Emperors over Clear Ambassadors
Snare - Coated Ambassador over Ambassador Snare
Side Snare - Evans Coated G1 over Remo Ambassador Snare

Miscellaneous:
Vater Multi-Pair Stick Holder

Pics:

**pearlreference7101** · 11-24-2011, 10:19 PM

Alternate Angles:

**Drummeral** · 11-24-2011, 11:54 PM

Beautiful kit. The hats,snare and 10" and 12" toms seem very far apart from one another but it still looks fun to play!

**MWRushR40** · 11-25-2011, 04:57 AM

I agree about the hats being far apart from the snare and 10" tom, looks sort of uncomfortable. But nice kit!

**Diofter** · 11-25-2011, 05:57 AM

Sweet kit! Rep!

**pearlreference7101** · 11-25-2011, 09:11 AM

Thanks guys! Now that you mention it, the hats do look really far away. I guess I never noticed before...

It might have stemmed from me having a 3-leg, non-rotating hihat stand with a double pedal for so long, and it just became comfortable for me to have them so far away...

**Bass Invader** · 11-25-2011, 10:33 AM

you're definitely doing it right. awesome stuff.

**SharkSandwich** · 11-25-2011, 10:35 AM

Super nice kit!

Does the bar on your left support anything?

**ryder1337** · 11-25-2011, 10:46 AM

That kind of setup just doesn't seem very ergonomic at all, I'm sure you wouldn't be playing it like that if it wasn't comfortable though. Nice kit man!

**pearlreference7101** · 11-25-2011, 08:00 PM

ryder1337
That kind of setup just doesn't seem very ergonomic at all, I'm sure you wouldn't be playing it like that if it wasn't comfortable though. Nice kit man!

I played around with the cymbal and pedal placement, and I found that the hihats and toms were actually farther away than I was comfortable with.

I have had the feeling for a couple months now that the setup just wasn't quite right, but I could never pinpoint what it was that felt "off". Today, after reading the comments (which were very helpful, and not offensive at all) I moved the entire rack closer to me, so the toms are now much more accessible and the hihats are now closer as well. Thanks to everyone for helping me realize why my kit felt kind of weird to play. I take my pedal and my hihat stand off of my set a lot to take with me when I play at church, so it's quite possible that over time the hats just kept getting farther and farther away.

SharkSandwich

Super nice kit!

Does the bar on your left support anything?

Thanks!
Not at the moment, but in the somewhat near future, I will put a bunch of multi-percussion on a CH2000S with several of the TL2000 Gyro-Lock Tilters in a sort of T-shaped configuration mounted on that wing.

Bass Invader

you're definitely doing it right. awesome stuff

Thanks man!