• Model: TAMA Starclassic Maple Drums
• Colour: Sparkle Silver
• Can be seen: "Cunning Stunts", "S & M"
• First time used live: short before "Load" release. Still used live

Current drumkit setup

TAMA Starclassic maple drums
A, 6,5"x14" Bell Brass Snare Drum
B, 9"x10" Tom Tom
C, 10"x12" Tom Tom
D, 16"x16" Floor Tom
E, 16"x18" Floor Tom
F, 16"x22" Bass Drum (x2)

Zildjian cymbals
14" Z Custom Dyno Beat High Hat
17" A Medium Crash Brilliant
18" A Medium Crash Brilliant
12" Z Custom Splash
19" A Medium Crash Brilliant
18" Oriental China Trash
18" A Medium Crash Brilliant
20" A Custom Ping Ride Brilliant
20" Z Custom China Brilliant

Lars is using the additional custom splash cymbal between his Toms since a short time before the "S&M" shows.

Hardware:

Tama Titan Cymbal Boom Stands HC104TB (x8)
Tama Iron Cobra Beat Pedal (x2)
Tama Titan HS90 Snare Stand (x1)
Tama Titan HT90 Throne (x1)
Tama Lever-Glide HH95NL Hi-Hat (x1)
Tama X-Hat HH95XH (x1)

REMO drum heads:

Tom Tom Batterheads: Clear Pinstripes
Tom Tom Bottomheads: Coated Ambassador Snare Batterheads: Coated CS Dot
Snare Bottomheads: Ambassador
Snare Resonant Head
Bass Drum Batterheads: Clear Powerstroke 3 with Falam Slam kick pad

Sticks: Easton Ahead Alloy Drumsticks

This a picture of Lars' studio drumkit in october '98

• Model: TAMA Starclassic Maple Drumkit
• Color: Blue
• Used for: 'Load', 'ReLoad' and 'Garage Inc.' recordings

Sometimes he's using up to three microphones for each drum and cymbal plus various over head mics on a recording session, so he can pick out which microphone sounds best on a certain part of a song.

STUDIO SETUP:

Drums
6,5"x14" TAMA Bell Brass Snare Drum
09"x10" TAMA Tom Tom
10"x12" TAMA Tom Tom
16"x16" Gretsch Floor Tom
16"x18" Gretsch Floor Tom
16"x22" Gretsch Bass Drum (x2)

ZILDJIAN CYMBALS
14" Z Custom Dyno Beat High Hat
17" A Medium Crash Brilliant
18" A Medium Crash Brilliant
12" Z Costum Splash
14" Z Custom Dyno Beat High Hat
19" A Medium Crash Brilliant
18" A Medium Crash Brilliant
18" Oriental China Trash
20" Z Custom China Boy
20" A Ping Ride Brilliant

TAMA HARDWARE:
Titan Cymbal Boom Stands HC104TB (x8)
Iron Cobra Beat Pedals (x2)
Titan HS90 Snare Stand (x1)
Titan HT90 Throne (x1)
Lever-Glide HH95NL Hi-Hat (x1)
X-Hat HH95XH (x1)

SHURE MICROPHONES:
Shure BETA 56 - Snare and tom
Shure BETA 52 - Bass drum
Shure SM94 - Hi-hat and other cymbals

Up to three microphones for each drum/cymbal

REMO DRUM HEADS:
Tom Tom Batterheads D Pinstripes
Tom Tom Bottomheads D Ebony
Bass Batterheads D Pinstripes
Snare Batterheads D Coded Reverse Dot
Snare Bottomheads D Embassador Snarehead

DRUM STICKS:
Easton Ahead Alloy Drumsticks

• Model: TAMA Starclassic Maple Drumkit
• Color: Blue

  Lars is using this drumkit for warming up.

TAMA STARCLASSIC MAPLE DRUMS
8"x14" Birch Snare Drum
9"x10" Tom
10x12 Tom
16"x16" Floor Tom
16"x22" Bass Drum

ZILDJIAN CYMBALS
14" Z Dyno Beat High Hat
18" Medium Crash
19" Medium Crash
20" Rock Ride

• Model: Easton Ahead Alloy - custom Lars Ulrich model

  Lars talks about his drum sticks:
  In the summer of '94, when we did a really quick U.S. tour, we were playing outdoors the whole tour in places like Buffalo, and it gets pretty cold by 9 p.m. on a May night in Buffalo. In the first song, when it was really chilly, I'd literally break four or five sticks, and I just couldn't deal with that anymore.

  So I thought back to '92 on the Guns 'N Roses tour, when Matt Sorum had me try the Easton sticks a couple of times. About two minutes into the song, I'd have to put them down because I couldn't quite play or get the feel with them, so I'd go back to the old, reliable Calato Regal Tips. But after the '94 tour, I had a little time to play with them in my studio and I got used to the feel, and now I wouldn't play with anything else. Calato was with me for ten years, and they were really cool, but I had to make the move out of sheer necessity. I still break a stick once in a while, maybe ten or so in the last year and a half, but you can't beat the dependability.

  I even recorded with them, but the one thing that's noticeably different with them is how they sound when you're hitting a cymbal. You can certainly make the case that it's not the same as striking a cymbal with a wood stick. I think there were one or two songs in the studio where I actually had a wood stick in my right hand and an Easton stick in my left hand, just to get a little more of a natural sound. (source: Modern Drummer issue of March '96)