Bo Eder
Platinum Member
ironicaly, my landlord came over one day and handed me a DW hihat stand that matches my DW 5000 bass pedal, I was using an old beat up pacific HH stand, as I piece my kit together as money comes in...one thing I will say from a engineering point of view, that tama pedal in the pic actually looks well thought out...I'm really into symmetrics and the one thing that always kind of makes me wonder, is when i watch my foot play the DW 5000 bass pedal, you can see it pulling to the spring side, which of course is going to happen, you cannot defeat gravity. would have made more sense balance-wise to have a spring on each side, but that's just my own personal mania. I'm sure you're going to love the tama gear, it'll still be liught years ahead of what drummer had to use in the 50's and 60's.
Wow. That's kinda' cool to have your landlord bring over DW stuff!
Regarding your gravity idea, then that happens to every pedal because they're all designed that way (and they have been since the dawn of time apparently). You're not alone. And the 5000 pedal design does work very well - I've liked mine since I first played it in the 80s.
But it's funny, I went to Tama in 1980 because I had to play that really light stuff they designed in the decades prior. In fact, Tama was the only game in town if you didn't want to go with the Rogers stuff. The only problem is, there hasn't been a real evolution since Tama came along. Things just got bigger and bigger and way over-engineered.