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hystericali · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: Dom's Kit

Dom's Kit courtesy of Muse's entry on Wikiepdia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muse_%28band%29

Drum kits

Dom has an exclusivity contract with Tama. He has had several kits, many of which have been destroyed during performances. More recently he has famously used one of their transparent drum kits made from acrylic shells. Some of these drum sets include:

British racing green Starclassic Maple kit with chrome hardware.
Brown fade Starclassic Maple kit with chrome hardware.
Blue sparkle Starclassic Maple kit with chrome hardware (destroyed at the conclusion of the 2001 Origin of Symmetry / Dead Star/In Your World EP support tour, as seen on "Hullabaloo" DVD).
Grey kit (unknown composition) with chrome hardware (as seen on the "Top Of the Pops" live performance and recording of Origin Of Symmetry). Its fate is unknown.
Blue sparkle Starclassic Maple kit with chrome hardware (used during 2002 tour and Absolution recording). Its fate is unknown. At least one rack tom survived until 2003 as it was used at the Grouse Lodge sessions of the Absolution recordings.
Silver sparkle Starclassic maple kit with chrome hardware (as seen in music videos for Hyper Music, Feeling Good, Plug In Baby and Dead Star).
Custom chrome finished Starclassic Maple kit with black nickel hardware (as seen on the Absolution Tour DVD). At least four different instances of this kit have been acquired and subsequently destroyed by the band at the end of live shows, at the conclusion of the Earls Court 2004 performance, at the 2004 Glastonbury Festival and on two other occasions.
Crystal ice (transparent) Starclassic Mirage kit with white nickel hardware. This kit is still in use.
He has also played a Starclassic Bubinga kit.
For recording he has used a blue DW kit.

Drum sizes

He previously used a 22x16" bass drum, 12x10" rack tom and 14x14" and 16x16" floor toms.
His new chrome kits have a 22x18 bass drum, 12x8 rack tom, 14x12 and 16x13 floor toms with the last being a custom size.
His newer still acrylic kits have a 24"x18" bass drum, 12"x8" rack tom, 14"x12" and 16"x14" floor toms. Also he uses a matching 14"x6" snare, a 20"x14" gong bass drum, and sometimes a 14"x6.5" Tama power metal snare. The rack tom, and bass drum are custom sizes.

Snare drums

As well as alternating between using mainly Tama Starclassic Maple 14x6.5", to match his chrome kit and Ludwig LB417 Black Beauty 14x6.5" snare drums, he has a number of less prominent snares used for recording and video clips (for example the shallow snare used for recording Fury, the Starclassic Maple 14x5.5" that matched his silver sparkle kit used for the recording of Ruled By Secrecy, the brass snare in the Time Is Running Out video clip).

Cymbals

Dom uses a selection of Zildjian cymbals. Over the years his tastes in cymbals have changed - for example, on the Hullabaloo DVD he uses 13" A Custom Projection hi-hats, 8" A Custom splash, 11" FX Oriental "Trash" Splash, 18" and 19" A Custom Crashes, 18" FX Oriental China Trash and a 22" K Custom Ride, whereas more recent performances have seen the addition of a 20" FX Oriental Crash of Doom, hung above his hi-hats, and 14" K Custom Special Dry Hi-Hats replace - and contrast - the A Customs. Lately the A Custom splash has been changed out in favour of an 8" A Splash. He has discontinued using the Crash Of Doom as of the Black Holes period, and now uses a 22" K Custom Medium Ride in live situations (and for recording).

For recording he uses darker K or K Custom crashes while he often retains the brighter A Customs in live performances for their increased "cut" (Ks were used at Live 8).

Hardware

He uses Tama Roadpro hardware.
His drum stool is a Tama First Chair with back-rest.

Sticks

He has used Zildjian Dennis Chambers signature series drumsticks, Shaw 5BN drumsticks and Promark 5BNs, as well as many others. Currently, he uses Vater's New Orleans Jazz sticks.

Drum heads

As with most of his equipment Dom rarely sticks with any particular brand of drum head for very long. At Hullabaloo his toms have clear Remo Emperor batter heads while the Black Beauty snare has an Aquarian Hi-energy batter. His Ayotte kick has a Remo Powerstroke 3 batter and the Starclassic snare usually has either coated Emperor or coated Controlled Sound heads.

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MUSE CALENDAR 2006/07
27th August 2006 - Leeds Festival
17th November 2006 - Nottingham Arena
18th November 2006 - Sheffield Arena
16th June 2007 - WEMBLEY STADIUM
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Museclues · Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:49 am Post subject:

Taken from http://www.musedrums.rocks.it/

Equipment
:::Dom plays with a SINGLE Iron Cobra bass drum pedal. He has been known to use a double in the past, and so that explains why in some videos such as Hullabaloo, you can see this. However none of his songs actually need it and the only time he is known to have used it was for the odd bass drum flam during song ending jams.

:::Keeping in with his new 'space age' see-through kit, he has recently started using the limited edition HP900PC Chrome Iron Cobra.

:::Dom also uses the Tama Iron Cobra Hi-hat stand, and the Tama first drum stool.He used to have a backrest on it - but recently this has been removed.

:::Dom also has a stick bag mounted on his floor tom, and a stick holder mounted on his hi hat stand - just incase!

Other
:::Dom is not only the percussionist in the band. Oh no! He is also in charge of the Buchla 200e synthesizer at the beginning of Take A Bow.

:::In amongst his drums and cymbals, Dom also uses an
11" RhythmTech Ribbon Crasher.This instrument creates a trashy sound similar to the 'slosh' of an open hi-hat and is used in Time Is Running Out, Hysteria, Apocalypse Please, Eternally Missed and Megalomania.

:::In the introduction of Falling Away With You, you can hear a 'hang' being played. This is what creates the warm 'ding' sounds throughought the song. Dom describes this instrument as

"A thing that looks like a cross between a barbeque and a flying saucer. It's like an inverted metal drum with a pentatonic C scale on the top that you tap with your hands. It's made by this company called PANArt. It's a really cool sounding instrument that's pleasurable to play and so relaxing as well."

:::During the Origin of Symmetry tour, Dom had a Balafon as part of his kit. This big wooden patterned xylophone is only used in Screenager.

:::During City Of Delusion and Screenager, Dom uses a hand held shaker.

:::And lastly, Dom has also sported a tambourine resting on top of his hi-hat cymbals during live versions of Megalomania.

Percussion
:::On Dom's snare drum, he has the RT-10S Snare drum trigger.

:::And on his medium floor tom, he has the RT-10T Tom tom trigger.

:::These are what make the 'shaker' sound in Supermassive Black Hole and a 'clapping' sound in Starlight.

The snare trigger is also used to layer the live sound of the snare drum, by adding a 'midi snare' signal over the top of the original sound.

The triggers are linked to a Roland SPD-S sampler.

:::Dom starts the various backing tracks by using a foot pedal next to his hi-hat stand. This presumably is an elaborate "play" button for backing tracks.

The synthesizer used by Dom in take a bow:
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