Nic Collins presents his drum kit on Phil Collins' 'Still Not Dead Yet Live' World Tour

Описание: Nic Collins gives the drummers' website http://en.beatit.tv/ a tour of his drum kit for Phil Collins' 'Still Not Dead Yet Live' tour. Filmed at Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany on the 7th of June 2019.
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We started in June 2017 and I’ve been using this kit for the whole time. It’s a Gretsch USA Custom with white finish. There’s only a certain amount of finishes you can do with this kit – it’s either the white or the classic black that Dad had. There’re a few others but you can’t get too crazy wth it. I really love this finish because whenever the lights go on it reflects it really well.

We’ll start with the drums themselves. These are all the sizes that my Dad used because I kinda have to do the sound. At home, I do use some of the concert toms but all the time. With this, you kinda have to. This is the 8”, 10”, 12”, 15”, 16”, 18”, a 7”x14” snare drum, and a 13” snare. This is just a standard Gretsch snare – a hand hammered chrome shell, which is kinda side snare stuff. We’re not doing much of it on this leg of the tour, just for a selection of songs. We haven’t done that many for that one. This is a great-sounding snare. We were using Noble & Cooley but the Gretsch colour and everything is just really great. All of these are concert toms without the bottom head – kind of a classic Phil Collins sound. On certain songs, you don’t need the whole sound, but on songs like ’In the Air Tonight’ you need it. If you were playing it on any other kind of drum set, it would sound pretty terrible. We haven’t had any problems with it and it’s a great-sounding kit, especially when it’s mic’d up and we start playing the set. On some of the songs in particular, like ’Against All Odds’. Soon as that first fill hits, this drum set has THAT sound.

Sabian cymbals. Here, we’ve got this little stack, which we only added when we started doing Australia back in January of this year. It’s a 10” O-Zone and an AA splash. All the crashes and the ride are Artisan cymbals: 16”, two 19”, two 20” and another 16”. This is the Chad Smith 21” Holy China, which is my favourite part of the kit even though I don’t get to use it that much, but when I do it’s enjoyable. Then, there’re 14” AAX X-Celerator hats. The ride is a 21” Artisan. All the cymbals are brilliant finishes, which looks really good when all the lights come down. I love the ride because it’s got a nice bell. When you hit it as a crash – we’ve got this big drum duet during the set – it sounds really good when it’s mic’d up.