This topic, [in this forum "CongaSet and accessories"], was not started for advice, but for a light sharing of different aesthetics.
Well, then: I approach any set of drums as one single instrument, so I feel this concept is best supported and underscored by a uniform look. Also, I am not going merely for the production of an ideal sound; I feel that the act and the performance of live music-making is part of the whole endeavor: I wouldn't want to see myself as a dude behind a set of five shiny drums that I don't dare to hit properly, but on the other hand, a random bunch of drums of different colors or makes projects a certain carelessness (or even provocation) that I couldn't back up as a player. It would shift the focus from the instrument to the musician behind it.
I know that there are other people who can manage that. It's a matter of personality. Some musicians just play
through their instrument; they demand that their instrument succumbs to their sonic ideas, and that's all. I love my instrument, or rather each one of the various instruments I play, and I often regard myself as being "instrumental" in bringing out the individual potential out of my drums. The drum becomes the actual player, so to say.
So you see, all that shows in the visual aesthetics of the performance as a whole. If I wasn't a Mr. Serious by nature, I would make different choices, and this would be visible, and that's cool, too.
Greetings, Thomas