00:00These drums stay in tune very well, so we don't change the heads that often.
00:05It has a break so that my sacrum can not be compressed.
00:09If Hunter plays a lick on the guitar, we'll pick up on it and we'll take it somewhere.
00:39Yo, what up? This is Zach from STS9. STS9's in Chicago for our New Year's run, 2025.
00:44I'm just going to give you a run-through of my kit.
00:46Cool, I play a Caraviato kit. They're out of Santa Cruz, California.
00:51I was good friends with Johnny Caraviato. I have three kits from him. This is my touring kit.
00:59Pretty Bugatti of a drum kit, to be honest with you.
01:03There's a proprietary thing that Johnny Caraviato used to do.
01:07He's since passed, but the team has kind of been continuing his legacy.
01:12They take one board and they steam it, and then they kind of cinch it together.
01:21Most drum kits are ply, but this is actually one piece of wood.
01:28I'm incredibly grateful to be playing this kit.
01:31I play a 14 snare, 10, 12, 14, 20-inch kick. Pretty shallow kick.
01:37And then I play a 10 and a 12 auxiliary snare.
01:40I'm endorsed by DW Hardware, endorsed by Bosphorus Cymbals.
01:46I use Evans heads.
01:49Depending on the room and depending...
01:52The drums are... These drums stay in tune very well.
01:55So we don't change the heads that often.
01:58The main snare gets changed the most.
02:01And it's not like every five shows.
02:04We just kind of... Me and TK, my drum tech, we gauge it.
02:08Just if the... How it feels.
02:11And their Evans resonant on the bottom.
02:15And yeah, man. Evans is... I don't know.
02:19I just... I love their heads.
02:22I like my drums a little drier for the resonance.
02:26We also have Roland... Actually Yamaha.
02:29Yamaha triggers on all the drums I'm triggering.
02:32As well as sending triggers and gates out to the front of house.
02:37Which is pretty cool.
02:39I have... I got a kick pedal.
02:42Yamaha kick pedal that's triggering some of the electronics as well.
02:46I'll start to my left.
02:48These are all bosphorus except the two hammer axes.
02:52These are just kind of like... Auxiliary percussion.
02:57My stackers are bosphorus with rivets.
02:59And then I have, you know, holes in that.
03:01And this is kind of just texture.
03:04With this, it's all texture to be...
03:08Ingrained in the rhythm of the drums.
03:10I have hi-hat. I have a china that's stacked.
03:12And it kind of creates this very electronic...
03:17You know, kind of feel that I'm able to have different sounds.
03:21And I think... Man, I don't know.
03:23This is a stacker. I think that's like a 6 and an 8.
03:27And a 6 and an 8. But they're different.
03:29And then I have rivets in this one.
03:30I believe this is a 12.
03:31This is a hammer axe snapshot, which is super cool.
03:36This is a hammer axe spanky.
03:38This is a 19 crash ride.
03:41I got a 20 crash... I got a 20 ride.
03:43This is an 18 crash.
03:45Obviously a bosphorus kind of effect symbol.
03:50Bosphorus EBC auxiliary hi-hats.
03:52So I can double.
03:54And then a bosphorus... I think this is 18 china stack.
03:59On my far left, I have a Yamaha DTX.
04:02This is more... I sample.
04:04So I have a whole bunch of my found-built samples that I load into this.
04:10And then I have this Nord Drum 3, which is an analog drum kind of percussion thing that I can
04:15affect.
04:16Has delay and all that. I mean, this has delay and stuff.
04:18But this is like kind of an analog drum...
04:21I wouldn't say synthesizer, but drum pad.
04:23So this is super cool.
04:25High quality.
04:26And this is really... I don't use really any of the Yamaha sounds.
04:29It's all my user presets of samples.
04:32And then I have a kick pedal going to the Nord 3 for auxiliary kicks and electronic kicks.
04:39I use... I'm endorsed by Vader.
04:41I have my signature drum stick, Zach Velmer.
04:43So Vader.
04:45It's kind of like...
04:47It's very simulated off of a...
04:50Kind of a 7A long.
04:52Wood tip.
04:55Amazing stick.
04:58And then...
04:59Once again, DW kick pedal.
05:02Endorsed by...
05:03And DW hi-hat stand.
05:04Endorsed by them for my hardware.
05:05I use...
05:07This particular throne.
05:10It has a...
05:11It has a...
05:13A break.
05:14So that my sacrum can actually not be compressed.
05:18Because I sit here for a long time.
05:21So that's pretty amazing.
05:23It's hydraulic.
05:26This is a...
05:27This is a really cool piece right here.
05:28This is called a rock tempo ref.
05:31So this monitors my tempo.
05:33Um...
05:34Which is...
05:34It's been absolutely a really amazing tool in the type of music that we play.
05:40Um...
05:40So it's...
05:41It's rad.
05:42It's actually really, really rad.
05:44That's...
05:44That's one of my favorite pieces that I travel with and everything.
05:49I have a couple of them because it monitors my tempo.
05:52Because we play...
05:53Um...
05:53A lot of the times we're playing to sequences and all that stuff.
05:56And so I can make sure that I'm in time.
05:58All the time.
05:59I can also make sure that I'm in time if we're not playing to a sequence or something like
06:03that too.
06:03So it's a really cool piece.
06:04So STS9Live, we...
06:06You know, Hunter...
06:07Hunter...
06:08Hunter's kind of station is...
06:10Um...
06:11Is kind of the brain of the whole operation.
06:14Um...
06:14He's sending...
06:16Uh...
06:16Click in MIDI.
06:17And everybody is kind of, uh...
06:19Connected in time with that.
06:21I am not like...
06:22Because I'm human.
06:23I'm playing to the click.
06:26So...
06:26Um...
06:27So that's kind of how it works.
06:28We, um...
06:29We all...
06:30And it's...
06:30It's...
06:31Not everything is in that...
06:33In that way where there's clicks.
06:35But, um...
06:36But that is...
06:37I make a lot of the communication to the band if we're changing, if we're not changing.
06:41And we all just communicate.
06:42It is a...
06:43It is a conversation.
06:45You know?
06:45We're...
06:46We're musicians.
06:47And just how we...
06:49Um...
06:49If Hunter plays a lick on the guitar, we'll pick up on it.
06:51And we'll take it somewhere.
06:52And if I'm playing a lick on the drums, it's...
06:55It's a very...
06:55It's a conversation.
06:56And we try not to talk over each other.
06:58And we just communicate together.
07:00Musically.
07:00Keep it...
07:01Keep it a really cool musical conversation.
07:04Hey, you guys.
07:04Thanks for watching.
07:05Um...
07:06And kind of going through my whole kit.
07:08Uh...
07:08STS9.com.
07:09And, uh...
07:10Come check us out on tour.
07:112026.
07:12Ciao.
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