Over the years my drum kit has changed in many ways. From large to small depending on the project or band I was playing with. Here are the several kits and how they have changed from project to project.

The Taye Studio Maple Drums
The Rush Tribute Kit. This is the full kit I use for my Rush Tribute project. Consisting with the full 180 degrees of drums, with the electronic kit behind me. Its an extreme set up and pretty amazing to play. Made by Taye Drums with the add-ons by Roland, I pretty much was able to duplicate Peart's drum parts quite convincingly.

The Tama Rock Star DX Kit
For studio sessions and more mainstream tributes, I usually scale to a mid size setup. Depending on the project, it was important not to have anything too large or a kit that was overkill for the music. Playing a small kit was quite enjoyable, just focusing on groove and feel.

The days of Empyria consisted of a couple of different size kits. Using my Tama Rockstar Kit, originally it was a pretty large kit as this was a prog metal project influenced by Rush and Dream Theater. At some point with Empyria in the later years I scaled the kit a little smaller as our style slightly changed from Prog Metal to a little more mainstream.

The Roland TD-9 Electronic Kit
This kit was used on many Empyria albums. A Roland TD-9 kit. Our album budgets were small so this was the direction we had to go. Not ultimately my first choice but we were limited with our options. Which leads me to mention that drums on our albums were done in full takes with no chopping or cut and pasting. I played my parts top to bottom usually in about 3-4 takes. Hmm, sorry...I think that was a bit of bragging, lol!