When we finished our album “Sex & Robots”, we were inspired to create a stage setup that focused on us and our instruments. We call our stage setup “Cloud 9″ because all of our instruments are painted white and its a lyric from one of our songs. The high gloss white also reflects light in a cool way at our concerts.
My drumset used to be such a strange mosaic of different looking gear because I use a traditional rock drumset mixed with lots of electronic trigger pads. I wanted to find a way to make the acoustic and electronic drums look seamless and realized that matching their color and improving their symmetry would achieve this. My brother, Nick Young (vocals, guitars for A.i.) and I first spent a long time designing the setup using Gibraltar parts as a frame. All the hardware is connected to that frame, even the hi-hat and snare drum stands.
Once we finished designing the setup, we took the DW drums apart and had their bodies wrapped in a high gloss white by thisoldrum.com. We then had to take all the hardware and drums apart to get them powder coated in a high gloss white finish. This amounted to around 2000 tiny and large pieces of metal hardware that had to be taken apart, sandblasted, heated to 400 degrees C., coated white, and then reassembled. This included all the metal parts for the DrumKat, Dauz pads, DrumTech pads, Gibraltar gear, and DW rims and hardware.
DRUM PARTS
22″ DW kick drum w/ DW 9000 acoustic kick pedal
12″ and 16″ DW rack toms
6.5″ x 14″ chrome-plated supra-phonic Ludwig snare drum(vintage reissue)
Zildjian Cymbals
rack mounted DW Snare and HiHat stand
custom gibraltar rack with rack extensions
custom Drumkat Turbo
6 x 6″ rack mounted single zone custom Dauz trigger pads
2 d-drum acoustic drum triggers for kick and snare
1 Drum Tech Pole Pad (dual zone electronic drum pad)
2 Drum Tech Fat Pedals (electronic kick pedals)
All triggers are hooked up to a Drumkat controlling an Akai Z-8 sampler
Custom Bass drum head by DrumArt.com
All other heads are Drum Doctors signature Remo drum heads
A.i. Drumkit Featured in Modern Drummer Magazine
When we finished our album “Sex & Robots”, we were inspired to create a stage setup that focused on us and our instruments. We call our stage setup “Cloud 9″ because all of our instruments are painted white and its a lyric from one of our songs. The high gloss white also reflects light in a cool way at our concerts.
My drumset used to be such a strange mosaic of different looking gear because I use a traditional rock drumset mixed with lots of electronic trigger pads. I wanted to find a way to make the acoustic and electronic drums look seamless and realized that matching their color and improving their symmetry would achieve this. My brother, Nick Young (vocals, guitars for A.i.) and I first spent a long time designing the setup using Gibraltar parts as a frame. All the hardware is connected to that frame, even the hi-hat and snare drum stands.
Once we finished designing the setup, we took the DW drums apart and had their bodies wrapped in a high gloss white by thisoldrum.com. We then had to take all the hardware and drums apart to get them powder coated in a high gloss white finish. This amounted to around 2000 tiny and large pieces of metal hardware that had to be taken apart, sandblasted, heated to 400 degrees C., coated white, and then reassembled. This included all the metal parts for the DrumKat, Dauz pads, DrumTech pads, Gibraltar gear, and DW rims and hardware.