jondrumming
Senior Member
I was at the drum store today, and I was trying out some pedals, and I had some odd first impressions of each one, and I wanted to know if anyone else kind of agreed with me about these things:
Pearl Demon Drive Double:
This was actually the first pedal I tried, I saw it and just thought WOW! Because a) it is great looking, and b) I didnt expect them to have it in stock. It was set up at a Roland kit, so I sat down and started playing on it; I knew direct drive pedals had a different feel... but the demon drive felt awful! The Iron Cobra Powerglide has the whole offset cam thing, but the demon drive felt like it had the cam waaayy too offset! Which might not make sense, but pretty much the beater sped up way too fast at the end of the stroke, which messed me up a lot.
Gibraltar Intruder Double Chain Single:
I think this pedal is underrated! It's a smooth, solid, sturdy pedal that definitely doesn't have the reputation it deserves.
DW 9000 Single:
LOVE this one. The one they had set up had a felt iron cobra beater on it, that combination is the formula for perfect pedal! The crazy smoothness of the floating rotor on the 9000 mixed with the lightweight iron cobra beater... FANTASTIC!
I was wondering, though, about the DW 9002 double pedal, how do they achieve the floating rotor feel on the slave pedal without the zero-backlash driveshaft? The axle on the slave side isn't floating rotor, it's pretty much standard, so wouldn't the floating rotor effect be lost on the slave pedal?
Just my thoughts
Anyone agree/disagree?
Pearl Demon Drive Double:
This was actually the first pedal I tried, I saw it and just thought WOW! Because a) it is great looking, and b) I didnt expect them to have it in stock. It was set up at a Roland kit, so I sat down and started playing on it; I knew direct drive pedals had a different feel... but the demon drive felt awful! The Iron Cobra Powerglide has the whole offset cam thing, but the demon drive felt like it had the cam waaayy too offset! Which might not make sense, but pretty much the beater sped up way too fast at the end of the stroke, which messed me up a lot.
Gibraltar Intruder Double Chain Single:
I think this pedal is underrated! It's a smooth, solid, sturdy pedal that definitely doesn't have the reputation it deserves.
DW 9000 Single:
LOVE this one. The one they had set up had a felt iron cobra beater on it, that combination is the formula for perfect pedal! The crazy smoothness of the floating rotor on the 9000 mixed with the lightweight iron cobra beater... FANTASTIC!
I was wondering, though, about the DW 9002 double pedal, how do they achieve the floating rotor feel on the slave pedal without the zero-backlash driveshaft? The axle on the slave side isn't floating rotor, it's pretty much standard, so wouldn't the floating rotor effect be lost on the slave pedal?
Just my thoughts
Anyone agree/disagree?