Drums & Percussion
Detroit-raised drummer Naomi West combines power, precision, and a fierce sense of control. Equally comfortable driving a full-scale rock performance or creating tension with the lightest touch, she shapes the emotional movement of a song as carefully as its tempo. Naomi’s commanding presence behind the kit made her an immediate cornerstone of the lineup, giving five very different musicians a shared heartbeat. Her playing can hit like a storm, retreat into silence, or break a song wide open at precisely the right moment. Once Naomi joined the sessions, the collection of musicians began to sound unmistakably like a band.
Main acoustic kit
Gretsch USA Custom drum kit
22×14 bass drum
12×8 rack tom
14×14 floor tom
16×16 floor tom
Ludwig Black Beauty 14×6.5 snare
Ludwig Supraphonic LM402 snare
Paiste 2002 cymbals
Zildjian K Constantinople cymbals
Remo Ambassador and Emperor drumheads
Electronic and auxiliary percussion
Simmons SDS-V electronic drum system
Roland SPD-SX Pro sampling pad
Latin Percussion congas
LP cowbells
Ludwig concert toms
Rhythm Tech tambourines
Woodblocks, cabasa, vibraslap and handclaps
Drum microphones
AKG D12 VR — kick
Neumann U 47 FET — outside kick
Shure SM57 — snare top
Beyerdynamic M 201 TG — snare bottom
Sennheiser MD 421-II — toms
Neumann KM 84 pair — overheads
Coles 4038 pair — room microphones
Neumann U 67 pair — alternate rooms or overheads
Studio effects and mix processing
Universal Audio 1176LN
Teletronix LA-2A
dbx 160 VU
Empirical Labs EL8-X Distressor
API 2500 stereo bus compressor
SSL G-Series Bus Compressor
Pultec EQP-1A
Manley Massive Passive
Lexicon 480L digital reverb
AMS RMX16 digital reverb
Eventide H3000
EMT 140 plate reverb
Bricasti Design Model 7
Roland RE-201 Space Echo
Fulltone Tube Tape Echo
TC Electronic System 6000