Yamaha Stage Custom Birch Recording Session - Follow The Star written and performed by Darran Muller

I've recently been back in the studio recording a couple of songs with the new Yamaha Stage Custom Birch 6 piece kit and some of the new PSTX range of cymbals from Paiste.

This is a track I wrote many years ago for the opening of a show.

THE KIT
Yamaha Stage Custom Birch
22 x 17 Kick Drum
10x7.5 Tom
12 x 8 Tom
14 x 13 Floor Tom
16x15 Floor Tom
13 x 6.5 Musashi Oak Snare
10x5 Aux Snare


Cymbals - Paiste
12" Twenty series Hats
10" PSTX Hats
14" PSTX Stack
18" 602 Modern Essentials Crash
20" Signature Dry Dark Ride
16" 602 Modern Essentials Crash
18" Alpha Swiss Stack

HEADS
Toms are fitted with Remo coated Emperors on the top and Remo clear Ambassadors on the bottom.
Kick drum still has the batter head supplied by Yamaha which is basically a Remo PS3.
The Snare drum is fitted with a Remo coated Ambassador on the batter and an Ambassador snare side head on the bottom.

Mics
Kick - Audix D6 (internal mount), Yamaha Subkick
Snare - Beta 57 (top), SM57 (bottom)
Aux Snare - Beta 87
Toms - Sennheiser e604s
Floor Toms - Shure KSM 27s
Hats - some generic pencil condenser
Overheads - Rode NT2-As

Interface - Behringer X-AIR 18