Let's see your guitar and bass gear!

Local retailer has this unit gathering dust. She's offered it to me for cost, and the timing couldn't be worse. 
 

Time will tell. 

Over the past few weeks, I noticed that my kick drum on my OG Yamaha Stage Custom kit has both started to sound and play like hot garbage. That got me thinking, when was the last time I actually replaced the batter head? I know I replaced the resonant head at least twice since I brought home the kit in late 1995: First with an OEM solid Yamaha head with a muffling ring, and second with an Aquarian muffled resonant head with the porthole while my band was recording its last EP back in 2005. But the batter head? It's an Aquarian Super Kick hat had been on there since around 1998! Maybe it was time to change it. 





Yeah, I'd say this one is cooked. Back when I bought it, Aquarian made only one Super Kick head: a single ply with a muffling ring. Fast forward to today, and they make about 10 different variations, from single ply clear to extra thick 2-ply coated with a variety of muffling ring sizes. I've had it on there so long that the center pad I used was for a single pedal. I've been playing with a double pedal since before the turn of the millennium. This time around, I opted to try a Super Kick II. 



This one is a hydraulic-filled 2-ply with a muffling ring. I added the double kick pad to save the head a bit; always a good choice. I used one of these on my old Sonor practice kit I used to have when they came out with the Super Kick II, and it worked wonders. The best part: I can finally for the first time in all the years I've had this kit play the drum wide open. I would have to stuff towels and blankets in there to achieve a halfway-decent sound. Now, it just does the thing. I still need to swap out my beaters for some new ones, but this is a big improvement. I played for 2+hrs over the weekend and it felt and sounded fantastic. 

Does anyone have and recommendations for guitar hangers? I tend to keep my non-daily guitars in the basement due to constant-ish temperature down there and all that, and I probably want to take them out of their cases and hang them up on the wall for both aesthetic reasons and just in case we have another flooding incident.

The good news is that the water from the plumbing leak didn't get to where I stored the guitars, but it still got within 1-2 feet of them. Fortunately they all seem to have escaped unscathed, especially the three I care most about.

In reply to BoxheadTim :

I've been using these. No issues. They do what they're supposed to. There are cheaper Chinese ones that look like they'd be just as good, but it's worth a couple extra bucks to me to have the comfort of USA made ones.

I also have them screwed into wall studs. Would probably be fine to use drywall mounts, but I'd rather not take the chance with nice guitars.

In reply to Beer Baron 🍺 :

Thanks, I'll get one or two of them to try them out. And yes, I'll make sure to screw them into the studs, at least for the guitars I like having.