I'm an Aquarian army.

From the start of the new semester, I've been browsing through the Pearl Drummer Forum and browsing through a lot of drum website. In Pearl Drummer Forum, there is a thread where the user can post their kit or in other word, "show off" their drumset to other user. Most of the user are from United States and yes their kit is most likely equipped with a lot of high end cymbals, hardware, and not to mention their drums are from Master series, Session, DW, Gretsch and other custom made drum such as OCDP, Taye, Epiarch which the price tag you can buy a Kancil or a Kelisa CASH! Everytime I browse through their pages, I was like "wahhhh.... shet....damn...." while looking at their AAX, HH, A custom, Z custom, Avedis, Elliminators, Iron Cobras, OCDP vented snare, Pork Pie's throne and many more things that would take me years just to have those. But in the end Im asking myself back, IF i had the money and are afford to buy those super expensive gear, would my skill improve? Would i become a better drummer? Would my rolling would be as fast as Travis' rolling? Would my footwork will become as good as Dave Weckl? Would i can play oddtime beat like Portnoy???? It is absolute NO, NO, NO! Hell NO! A good drummer should play well in any kind of sets wheter it is a crappy one or a good one. So i decided to get slow and not planning to buy anything expensive after this. Maybe later but currently, I will stick to what i had first.

The head (finally).

From my previous post, you can see my bass drum head have been abused so bad that both batter side and reso side of the head are all damaged. So last week after class, we first went to Woh Fatt to buy a few replacement parts for my floor tom, top hi-hat cymbal holder, and a few things. So i bought floor tom leg bracket, the hi-hat thing, ring muffler for my snare(cant afford to lose my hearing), clamp/adapter, and Modern Drummer Jan 2006 mag. All for less than hundred.
Then, we head to JS Music to buy bass head. It is Aquarian Super Kick II (double layer) for batter and a Aquarian Regulator pre potted for reso head. So on thursday i get back to my house and was excitedly put the new heads for my bass drum. I also replace the floor tom bracket with the new one and also finally can put the hi-hat cymbal. I moved the drums to the hall and set it up there because i want to tidy up my room and put away the table inside my room. So it is a 4 piece setup without the pedals. I need to get a boom/straight stand to make it a 5 piece setup. So here you go, my 80% of the incomplete Blackpearlz.

Old school style claw.



The bass head before



Aquarian Super Kick II



Setting up



Closer look



Ride view



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