John Trimble has played Ludwig Drums since 1973. He records with either:

Kit One: 1973 Ludwig Custom in Butchers Block

24” bass drum / 14” floor tom / 16” floor tom / 12 and 14” Roto Toms / Ludwig Super Sensitive snare drum

Cymbals (My Left to right)

• 20” Zildjian Constantinople medium ride
• 13” Zildjian Mastersound high hats
• 16” Paiste thin crash
• 21” Sabian AA ride
• 15” Zildjian “A” Medium Crash
• 10” Amedia closed high hats
• 17” Sabian Effeks Crash with 10” crash stacked
• 20” Zildjian China Boy High

DW / Pearl Hardware
Kit Two: 2001 Ludwig Custom in Maple

18” bass drum / 10” and 12” rack toms / 14” and 18” floor toms / SupraPhonic Snare

Cymbals:

• 13” Zildjian Mastersound High Hats
• 21” Zildjian K Custom Special Ride
• 18” Zildjian K Custom dark Crash
• 20” Bosphorous Turk Flat Ride
• 16” Paiste Paper Thin Crash
• 13” closed Paiste High Hats
• 8”  Zildjian A Splash Cymbal
• 18” Meinl Gen X Extreme stacked cymbal
• 20” Zildjian China

All DW 9000 series hardware

Keyboard and Recording Equipment:

• Yamaha AW 1600 Digital Workstation
• Keeley fuzztone
• Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeler
• Boss RC-3 Loop Station
• Yamaha MM 6 synthesizer
• Yamaha PSR-540 synthesizer
• vintage ARP Quartet synthesizer

Randy Nutt’s gear in Merz and Queer Career:
Randy played a Gibson Thunderbird 4-string bass and a Hagstrom 8-string bass.
Randy used Superfuzz fuzz tones and an Echoplex tape delay unit through SUNN amplifiers.