Matt Halpern

Halpern lists this mic as the top head snare drum mic he uses in the video's description.

In this post on the Meinal website, they detail the cymbal setup that Matt uses. in his setup he uses a 18 inch Byzance crash

In this post on the Meinl website, Meinl looks at Matt's cymbal setup. in his setup he uses a 18 inch sand crash. This crash is used to compliment the byzance medium crash he also has in his setup.

In this post on the Meinl website, Meinl looks at Matt's cymbal setup. In his setup he uses a 18 inch extra dry china.

In this post on the Meinl website, Meinl looks at Matt's cymbal setup. in his setup he uses a 8 inch dark splash. This splash is used on top of a 10 inch gen x china to make a mini stack

In this video for Musicians Friend, Matt talks about his prefered modles of evans drum heads. He states that he uses the G1 clear heads on the reso side. this is in combination with the g2 on the batter side.

In this studio update matt states that he used a sensitone snare. he used this as one of the snare sounds on the record

This is the signature drum sample pack matt has with get good drums. this is based off of the drum tones matt has. matt co founded get good drums with former periphery bassist adam "nolly" getgood

In this post matt shows off the custom in ear monitors he uses. he uses 64 audio in ears. this is Crucial for live preformance because periphery play with midi patch changes, and to a click. due to this, matts playing needs to be spot on, and in ears help with that

Matt can be seen using a m20 ride cymbal in his cymbal setup

In this post matt announces that he is a pearl artist. in his setup can be seen a pearl hihat stand. he switched to pearl after being a mapex artist for years. he stated that this change was what is best for him as a artist

for the recording of p4, Matt used a meinl benny greb crasher hats pair. this is a 8 inch mini hat. matt uses this a a accent cymbal

Listed on the official Reflexx artist page.

In this vido Matt talks about his signature pearl snare. The snare is a brass drum, Matt states he seems to keep going back to brass drums. It seems to give him the tone he needs. Matt wanted something that was very responsive, and could cut through heavy guitars of his band Periphery. The snare comes with a Evans heavyweight dry. This is a head Matt helped design with Evans. Matt likes the dry heads because as opposed to the regular Heavyweight he used previously, He didn't need as much muffling

Matt Halpern is confirmed to use Promark Hickory 5B Wood Tip drumsticks, as listed in his setup in the July 2012 issue of Modern Drummer.

Custom Masterworks referenced from the MCC

13x7 rack tom 16x16 floor tom 16x18 floor tom 22x16 kick

Matt designed this snare head with Evans

You can see Matt using a prototype Evans snare drum head. It looks to be a mix of the ST Dry with the tiny holes on the edges with a Reverse Dot in the middle.

Matt explains the use of his Meinl drum honey in this video

Matt explains his use of the brass Snareweight on his snare

Matt explains his use of Rock Locks

Matt explains his use of the UV2s on his toms

Matt uses G1 Clears for resos on toms

Matt uses a Snare Side 300 on his snare as a reso head

Matt uses this Byzance Extra Thin Hammered crash

Matt uses this Byzance Extra Thin Hammered crash

Matt sometimes switches between an 8" and 10" Byzance splash

Matt uses an R&D 15" top hat on his hats

Matt uses a Foundry Reserve 15" bottom hat as his main bottom hat and the normal Foundry Reserve pair occasionally.

Matt uses his signature Artist Concept model Double Down Crash/Ride