PeelingFlesh’s Joe Pelletier - GEAR MASTERS Ep. 597 - video Dailymotion

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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Gear Masters”, Joe Pelletier, drummer of the slam band, PeelingFlesh, shows off the gear that he uses onstage, while on tour with Lorna Shore, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Shadow of Intent. PeelingFlesh is currently supporting their newest album, PF Radio 2.  PLAY THE SAME GEAR: Crush Sublime 2018 Gold Wrap Drum Kit (10″, 12″, and 16″ Toms) - https://www.crushdrum.com/sublime Honest Abe 14″x7.5″ Cast Iron Snare Drum - https://www.honestabeinstrumentco.com/ Evans Black Chrome Snare Drumhead - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/bOZV6m Remo Pinstripe Drumheads for Toms - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/2aPdoM Two-Ply Bass Drumhead with Kick Patch - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/RGxbA2 Volta Innovations Double Bass Drum Pedal - https://voltainnovation.bigcartel.com/product/double-bass-drum-pedal Trick Pro1-V Beaters - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/dOXG23 Gibraltar Drum Rack - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/N9db5P Shure Beta 57A Snare Microphone SE Electronics SE8 Pencil Condenser Microphones - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/yqDkaB SE Electronics V Beat Microphones - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/YR5NXK SE Electronics Kick Drum Microphone - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/MA4bPY Roland RT-30K Kick Trigger - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/K0Rzrv Roland TM-2 Trigger Module - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/7aAMEV ProMark 5B Hickory Drumsticks - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/LKv2j3 Zildjian 18″ Oriental China Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/qzRyQq Zildjian 18″ A Custom Projection Crash Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/DyE3YG Zildjian 19″ A Custom Projection Crash Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/Qjqba9 Zildjian Z Custom Ride Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jeEmNb Zildjian 19″ Ultra Hammered China Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/jeEmNM Zildjian 14″ A Custom Hi-Hats - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/e1oNy1 Zultan F5 Bell Cymbal - https://www.zultancymbals.com/f5/ Zildjian 6″ Mini Splash Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/GK6gPn Zildjian 10″ Splash Cymbal - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/19j7nD DB25 Cable - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/VxrNz6  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - October 23, 2025 Location - The Salt Shed in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH PEELINGFLESH: Facebook - https://facebook.com/peelingfleshok Instagram - https://instagram.com/peelingfleshok Twitter - https://twitter.com/peelingfleshok  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:35 Skip Intro 00:45 Snare Drum 02:13 Drumheads 03:49 Cymbals 06:47 Ped

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00:00stretch it to where it's really tight make sure it's you know it doesn't sound good it's really

00:03I thought playing with short beaters is gonna be really awkward but kind of changed the game

00:07for me hey what would you prefer what do you think would be best for the ping

00:30it's Joe from peeling flesh back again with another gear masters got a bunch of

00:40new shit obviously that's awesome let's give a little rundown same throne same shell

00:46pack crush sublime 2018 gold wrap 10 12 16 again don't know the depths don't care this

00:56new snare is a 14 inch 14 by 7 5 I'll actually pull it out real quick that's really cool

01:03so this one is an honest Abe so it's a cast iron oh hi B get away from me there's a cast iron oxidized

01:10chemically oxidized 14 by 7 5 I want to say it's a 6 millimeter or something like that nice guy in

01:18Tulsa builds these he's really awesome a couple really good drummers that use his use all this

01:23drums he makes snares full kits pretty much anything you need but we got together and got

01:28this one before this tour sounds great super heavy it's like a 35 pound snare sucks so I don't really

01:33know much about snares as far as die cast or triple flange I'm still a new to that realm I asked him

01:39personally since he's the drum guy I said hey what would you prefer what do you think would be best for

01:42the ping he said triple flange he said he has an oxidized cast iron snare shell ready to go just got

01:48put shit on it and we did sounds great it's a little different from what I'm used to but slowly

01:53figuring it out it does have a throw off right here too so all the way off your snares you got

01:58section one section two section three that's the highest I usually keep it on a second with a semi low

02:04tension on the snare wires it rings a little bit it's not too tight doesn't choke the sound too much

02:08love the snare just heavy it's my only problem but hey it's it's hard so Evans black chrome on the

02:15snare always every day can't change it I don't know why we are going Remo pinstripes on all the

02:22toms except for the kick kick head I'm not really super particular as long as it's a two ply you put

02:27a pick kick patch on it it usually runs really well but the pinstripes are very forgiving when it

02:34comes to tuning I'm not the best at tuning myself just takes me a little bit of tweaking a little bit

02:38more time but these are very forgiving I can just tune them up refresh them squeeze them and they

02:43usually sound really good right off the bat don't have any problems with them and they don't dent I

02:48usually dent the G2 clears the ECS twos all Evans heads at least on the toms and they dent really

02:53easily and I don't really like that but the Remo's pinstripes have been doing champion champion work

02:59love them they're great so our driver currently is a really awesome fucking drummer used to play for

03:05I am from Texas I'm blessed to have his knowledge to help me tune my drums every day every once in a

03:12while once every day but if I need problems or if I have problems and I need them fixed he'll come

03:16over here and help me tune them and get them sounding really good for me which is a really good plus

03:20because I'm not the greatest at it personally but I can do it it's just I tightening up stretch it to

03:25where it's really tight make sure it's you know doesn't sound good it's really you know really loud

03:29then just tune each lug down slightly all evenly just to make sure that everything balances everything's

03:34good and then obviously if you want put some drum dots moon gel you know Evans or the model drum honey

03:41any of those will help make a drum sound fairly well without crazy amount of tuning

03:46new cymbals everything is Zildjian now I know I said brand loyalty I just I don't like anything other

03:55than Zildjian anymore it sounds really good if we can afford it you know that's what I would prefer

04:00to play so that's what we do there are a couple different ones on here so 18 inch Oriental I think

04:07I had this one and this China and maybe these two crashes for the last video I just get warranties get

04:13replacements they're really awesome 18 inch Oriental 18 inch projection a custom mirrored with the 19 inch

04:21a custom projection a little bit thicker than your typical a customs so they don't warp and don't

04:26crack as easily at least for me these are going on probably 70 shows 60 70 shows no cracks a little

04:36bit of warping but they still sound really good the Zoltan Bell this one is obviously the biggest hitter

04:44the Zoltan Z-U-L-T-A-N from Thoman Thoman EU that German brand it's like a $50 bill sounds crazy

04:52I love it I've been using it for a long time I have been breaking a lot of splashes recently

04:58so I had this one I pulled out it's a little itty bitty fucking little six inch little eight

05:03custom or four inch I don't even know what it is so small it's really hard to hit it sounds really

05:07cool but I don't hit it all the time um I've broken both of my other Zildjian crashes or splashes so

05:15Bryce from Shadow of Intent bless his heart let me cop this by Zant's 10 inch sounds really good

05:20I don't have any complaints about it's not crack and he's a great guy to let me use it so bless his

05:24heart um I want to say this one is the 10 inch it is so faded I honestly can't tell but it's just

05:32their bigger Zilbel it's just the bigger version of their little small little metalcore Zilbel

05:35super cut is it's not very loud so you really have to hit it pretty decently hard to really get

05:43it to actually cut through compared to this one this one screams over every symbol I have but I

05:48like it it's a good addition to do some little bell work you know little double bell work really

05:52fun already 19 inch projection of course still using the crackhead Z custom fucking $80 ride

06:01probably won't ever switch on it unless it breaks which I don't think it ever will so

06:04get old school it's a little dirty little rusted a little little corrosion from five weeks on tour

06:09but you know and then 19 inch ultra hammered still doing hard still going hard this is the one the

06:17same China from the last video has not cracked has not broken has not nothing still runs fire by me

06:23good old a customs faded to all hell because there's no logo and leave I clean them with some shit that

06:30brightens it up but it does tend to rub off the logo sometimes but uh yeah it's 14 inches classic

06:34a custom hi-hats they run really well um probably won't ever use anything else ever again and I think

06:41that's all for symbols um freshly we can do pedals so I know people were talking about the uh access

06:52upgrades from Volta Volta innovations great guy um so this is my fully custom pair from him so turquoise

07:00blue black steel um pretty much fully customized to kind of how I wanted him to feel you got logo laser

07:07engraved on every single footboard heel razors on both I have a silver one on here just because one

07:14was getting a little wonky so I had a replacement um sent out to me he's awesome and then same thing

07:19with the driveshaft just I kind of fucked it up a little bit on an accident and I had to get another

07:23another piece so that's why this side's black but best pedals I've ever felt um I never have any

07:29problems with them I broke a beater so I've been using the trick the pro one b beaters uh for the

07:36big foots and I've been using it for a while and when we played Oklahoma City my left beater snapped

07:42in half so I was pretty much like this the rest of the set sucked so then I had a buddy of mine cut it

07:48the other one the longer one to match how short it was I thought playing with short beaters is going

07:52to be really awkward but kind of changed the game for me I can feel my doubles underneath every single

07:58hit I don't really like it's it's a crazy difference how much just shorting your beater

08:03is like an inch will make it's it's kind of wild so these are actually built by the guy that was making

08:08the upgrades this is his custom like actual made pair of pedals he can do any color you want a color

08:14scheme you want blue red black gold yellow green he can pretty could probably make you a camo pedal

08:20if you really wanted to um but he has top-notch customer service I literally couldn't think of any other

08:26pedal that I'd want to use it's not too wide they're not super heavy the heel razors make a

08:31big difference so as far as leverage and really getting on top of the pedals you can see right

08:36here bolt innovations as a stamp right there it's like a little metal like engraved plate on each

08:42side of the pedal they're really awesome tensioners so your springs usually you have a wing nut underneath

08:48or some apparatus of sorts like that this is all just the turn you turn it this way right to loosen it

08:55turn it left to tighten it super easy I haven't had anything no problems on them I max them out just

09:01because I like them really tight um it does kind of have what would be a variable leverage drive which

09:07is called a vld um kind of like after this pedal this one's a little bit different um typically more

09:13down it feels different it feels like you have to you're choked up a little bit and you more up it

09:19feels like it's more open it's kind of the opposite on these ones so all the way down this one's just

09:25settings particular this one's in the middle this one's all the way down but when it's all

09:28the way down it gives you the most actual width you can get from the pedals itself when it's all

09:33the way up it kind of chokes a little bit it's probably more like people that do swivel and stuff

09:37like that I can't do swivel so I don't do that um and that's pretty much the pedals they're great

09:43check them out the whole drum kit is on a gibraltar I think it's a gibraltar pdp rack um there's dw parts

09:51on it there's pdp parts on it we're just kind of mixing it together um bought it from a church

09:55drummer super awesome guy everything's pretty much the same as far as snare stand hi-hat stand tom legs

10:01all that's exactly the same we just got a nice big drum rack that everything sits on double leg four

10:06legs all the way across all of my microphones all of my cables my loom everything is all threaded

10:13through like on top of the drum rack I can literally move my entire drum kit mic'd up cabled up

10:19ready to get plugged in as a whole unit as one save setup time getting on stage time a lot quicker

10:25um I've had a couple things break on it just people just not being careful with it which is fine

10:32but other than that it's super sturdy it ain't it ain't going nowhere once you get it on stage it's

10:37it stay in there um microphones still using the beta 57a great snare mic um probably won't ever use

10:47anything again unless we just kind of experiment everything else except for the spot mics there's

10:52spot mics underneath hi-hat underneath both splashes both sides and then on the ride they're just little

10:59road little pencil mics um they work they're really good they don't really have any problems with them

11:05on toms and overheads overheads are the se8 actual full pencils came with the kit um we have a case

11:13over there in the trailer that has you know overheads uh spots for all four of the spot mics and all four

11:19of the se drum mics se8 uh i think it's the v-beats on tom tom and snare bottom underneath is another v-beat

11:29and we use a kick mic on the floor tom it just adds a little bit more subbiness a little bit more 808

11:35uh every lug is finger tight i don't even use the drum key to tighten uh tune my floor tom it just

11:41thuds really loud really deep we really like um se mics se electronics great company uh probably won't

11:49use any other mics unless we spend a lot of money on some mics that we don't have but other than that

11:54um that's the microphone setup and kind of part of the mic's kind of not but just rolling rt30k

12:01clip on click kick trigger i've used pedal triggers mounted underneath i don't really like them i always

12:07have problems with them so i just stick to the clip on stick to the tm2 adjust my settings per day as it

12:13needs depending on what it is it's usually all good then every single cable every cable from here

12:20top top to everything across that is connected is all fed off of a db25 snake coming from our in-air rack

12:28in the separate video with my guitar man and it's just a loom everything's it's all on cables it all

12:33fits together i plug in everything once clip it together kits on and then i'm no longer using fish

12:40sticks just pro mark 5b hickories fish sticks are hard to get they're expensive i don't it's not even it's

12:47just it's a hassle so i just buy bricks of these and if they break they break if they don't they

12:52don't thank you guys we are on tour currently with lorna shore black dahlia murder and shadow of intent

12:57it's been a great tour um definitely played some of the biggest rooms that we never thought we'd

13:01actually play it's a life-changing experience learned a lot um ready to go home it's been a little over

13:08five weeks we're all super tired and shout out se shout out ibanez shout out crush but um no thank

13:17you guys for coming out so much and thank you for watching my stuff thank you

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