Equipment
Chad's Pearl Acrylic kit:
- 12x8 tom
- 14x14 floor tom
- 16x16 floor tom
- 24x16 kick drum
- 14×5 Pearl Ultracast Snare or a 14x6 Pearl Sensitone Elite
- 14x6 Acrylic Free Floating snare (auxiliary snare)
Note: Chad rarely uses his signature snare.
Sabian cymbals:
- 14" AAX-Celerator Hats,
- 21" AA Rock Ride,
- 20" AA Rock Crash,
- 19" AA Medium Crash,
- 19" AA Holy China,
- 10" AAX Splash
Vater Percussion sticks:
- Chad Smith Funk Blaster
Pearl hardware:
- C1000 straight stand x 5
- P2000C bass drum pedal
- H2000 hi-hat stand
- S2000 snare stand
- D1000S throne
- T2000 double tom stand
- B1000 boom stand
- AX20 adapter
Remo drumheads:
- Clear Powerstroke 4 (Bass Drum Batter): 24"
- Clear Emperor (Bass Drum Resonant): 24"
- Clear Controlled Sound(Tom Batters):12", 14", 16"
- Clear Ambassador (Tom Resonants): 12", 14", 16"
- Coated Controlled Sound X (Snare Batter): 14"
- Ambassador Hazy (Snare Side): 14"
- Coated Ambassador (Auxiliary Snare Batter): 14"
Gon Bops Percussion:
- Red Rock Cowbell
- Jam Block
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