Re: tama camco
I played with the Tama Camco for almost 30 years, at the time of it's release it was one of this pedal with a great future, chain driven, light feel, fast and most of all, it has the possibility to carry adjustement to suits your preference, nowadays almost all pedals offers some kind of adjustements and even extra options, such as different cams, different driving mode and so on.
As far as adjustement is concern, by today's standard, it's a bit limited, but nervertheless this is what you could do with it, by unscrewing the screw on the cam wich secured the chain and moving the said chain on the cranked cam into a different position (the cam featured five or six predertemined positions) you could adjust the footboard up or down, this action however, had an influence on the beater angle, which in turn had 3 position setting on the top arm of the spring assembly to choose a different angle, and obviously you could adjust the spring tension, the early version did not have a cover over the chain to prevent the chain to come out of the cranked cam during heavy and powerful strokes, having said that, I owned both types and I never had a problem the chain, I also used both single pedal and double pedals (which came fully equipped with 3 complete spring assembly to use each pedal as a single one).
It has a light, fast feel, with a reasonably heavy felt beater which allow all types of drumming, from rock to jazz, a very versatile pedal, which is comparable to a DW 5000 which share the same design.
Hope this help.