Yes, my fine DLO friends, this is indeed taken from the Snare Playing forum. It seemed to be popular. And it's always nice to hear other person's opinions.
Hokay, so what are your absolute favorite tenor sticks and mallets. Of any and all brands.
My opinion...
*IP-
sticks: shortys
mallets: FT-1AH
*Vic-
sticks: vegas (duh!)
mallets: MT1A

Innovative.

FT-1
FS-1

vegas for everything
i really really dislike mallets

Gambal Disks.

Vegas
MT1A-S
ScoJos (Nice contrast to the sticks and the mallets)

VF MT1-A's
Vega's
Promark Mike Stevens
Scojo's
Hardimon snare sticks
IP FS2 (Mcnutt stick)

Vic Firth:

MTA-1
Vegas
Hardimons


Innovative Percussion:

AT-1



Pro-Mark:

Mike Stevens

I'm seeing a lot of the promark Mike Stevens sticks being chosen. I've never played marching promark sticks. They any good?

i vastly prefer promark over vic firth. the sticks just feel better, and they dont paint the crap out of them either
however the majority of them break after a week of playing
oh well, promark still kicks vic at set sticks

i enjoy vegas for everything.
=]
no mallets, i don't like them at all.
if anything i'll use sco jo's as well,
and our tenor line used scott johnson snare sticks last fall.
O__o
i agree with hiredgoonthug...
when it comes to set sticks, promark is better.
but when it comes to marching sticks, of course nothing but vic firth

vic firth's marching hardimons

i dig vic firth all the way for marching
ive been using vegas since day one
for show effect our line also uses the quadbales, vega swizzles, and occasionally a pair of MTT mallets B]

I like using the Ralph Hardimon snare stick and occasionally Vic Firth MT4A mallets

I have to agree that its hands down Vegas

MT1A's

vegas are great

vegas

the mike stevens, those are the promark similer to the vegas, right? we used those last year and thye were good. i prefere the vegas. the hardimon tenor sticks are pretty cool too. probably my fave. we are using the mt4a this year along with the hardimons. has anyone ever used them? how are they? (we havnt got them yet)

I have been playing with vegas all season but im looking to try the Hybrids and maybe a pair of IPs or Pro Marks

I used IP's, they were overly heavy and broke pretty soon. MT1A's all the way...that and the MT"Puffies".

My favorite sticks would be from Vic Firth. I use MT-4A, Vegas, and Scojos; and they are all awesome.

A lot of the guys on the line use Vic Firth Vegas.

my line uses IP so im more familiar with the stick choices from them.
so most definately from IP:
sticks: FS 1
mallets: FT-1AH

and i agree with someone above Promark has some kick but set sticks my only problem is they break fast

hybrid tenor sticks, the new vic firth ones.

we use mallets in our line. the vic firth mt1a and mt4a depending on the show piece. are the vegas really nice? i've never used em and i was thinking about getting them.

i prefer the mt1a mallets by vic firth. i was thinking about getting the vegas but im not really sure

i like vegas for sticks, IPs FT-4A are my favorite mallets, and i also like the hybrids....funny how everything i like, i never used back in the day because it didnt exist

Well my drumline has some kind of IP hook up so we only use IP but my favorite sticks and mallets are

sticks: shortys
mallets: FT-1AH

Innovative FT-2 Wooden bead