[Tenatious P]

DTX - the Pork Pie brass snare is very nice indeed - in fact, a lot of friends over on another forum bought one to flip out on ebay, and ended up keeping it. It's got a lovely sound even with the stock heads, but I've put some Evans heads on now (batter is a Genera Dry, which I also have on my old Premier snare) and it sounds real nice. It has a really full range of tone and volume, and from what our sound guy says will be real nice when we go off recording at the end of next month. The rest of the kit is standard Mapex 9-ply Boxwood, with the outer ply being the veneer finish (Maple, I think).

Buddy - your first kit is most likely way better than my first kit - at times thinking back, I could have upgraded simply by switching to the boxes the kit came in.... What you playing anyway?