Does having drive shafts on both pedals feel weird.
Certainly no more so than having the drive shaft on just one pedal, and not the other.
I know one of the selling points of the offset was there is supposedly "no lag" due to both pedal being slave so they would feel the same.
One might argue the no lag/lag issue, but without getting thousands of dollars of expensive scientific equipment.....to prove a $250 pedal does/doesn't...I'll let those who like to hairsplit do that. Suffice to say, The feel of the left and right pedal can be set up to be identical, or quite near to.
I have tried the slieshman and it is an interesting pedal but I didn't like the footboards and its super expensive.
Certainly, you won't see too many of them being used. Before I played the Sleishman, I A/B'd the Sonor pedal against the Trem. Tech., and I prefered the Trem. Tech. So that's what I bought. Charlie Fisher, the cat behind the Trem. Tech. Off Set pedal, nice guy. Approachable. Murphy's Law, after my Off-Set purchase, I got to play the Sleishman, at a NAMM show. It would be much harder to decide between the Off-Set, and the Sleishman. It was easy to choose the Off-Set, over the Sonor.
The off-sets are several hundred dollars cheaper but I have never seen one other than online.
Currently, he's selling his pedals out of the shop/website, here:
http://web.mac.com/kleidy1/Off-Set/Home.html I guess he's had a hard time finding distribution. I have the "long" driveshafts on my pedals, he now offers "shorties", also. I good buddy of mine (drummer also), has the Off-Set system, with the shorties, and he loves it. Evertually, I'll probably get the Sleishman. They carry 'em at Pro Drum, in Hollywood, now. Not that I need a new pedal system, ....... or that the Sleishman is better than the Off-Set. More, it's a case of "I want a Sleishman".