Danny Carey

Carey also uses a kit composed of custom cast bronze shells (3/16" thick and same dimensions as the SONOR, apart from the fact that both bass drums are 22"x18") made from recycled Paiste cymbals, manufactured by master drum tech and drum maker Jeff Ocheltree (mostly on US tours as it is too heavy to readily transport elsewhere; he has also used it on "Jambi" from 10,000 Days).

Per the Synesthesia website, "Danny uses Mandalas extensively live and in the studio. He worked closely with Synesthesia Corporation over a four year period while Mandala membrane trigger technology was honed to super-fast response times."

"The drums sounded great. They're the Sonor Bubinga Limited Edition Signature series. Bubinga wood is awesome" says Danny about his drums, in this interview

In the Mandala Drum interview on YouTube, Danny Carey of Tool is seen using a Korg Wave Drum positioned on his left.

This is danny carey's sonor sq2 system, in medium beech shells, on the sonor website. The sizes of this kit are listed: 20 x 24 bass drum 19 x 22 bass drum 18 x 16 floor tom 16 x 14 floor tom 12 x 12 tom tom 10 x 10 tom tom 8 x 8 tom tom 14 x 8 snare drum 22 x 15 gong drum

At 15:25 in this interview, Rick Beato asks Danny Carey what drum kit he used on the first Tool record. Danny responds:

I had a Phonic Plus kit that I just bought off of a guy here in town. I can't even remember what it was. But it was a couple of 24" kick drums and they were all square size toms. Like, 12", 13", 14", 16" or something, you know. Those were my babies, you know. I still love the Phonic Plus drums, man. Beachwood sound, they just generate a lot of low end. Those bass drums actually, from that kit, I think I've used on every Tool recording. I have all these other kick drums I've had made. I get my endorsements from like Sonor signature series stuff that's insanely expensive but man I always end up going back to those drums. They're magical.

In this video, Danny Carey is asked how he triggers vocal samples. He responds at 5:07 saying:

There's not a lot of backgrounds on this tour, but there is a little bit and some of the vocals are very high. We sampled some of them, so I trigger them off of this Roland SPD. It's a really useful thing. That's pretty much all I'm using this for. Actually, as the tour goes on, I think I might load in some weirder samples for some of the more industrial vibe songs we're playing on this tour. But it's been a work horse.