bud7h4
Silver Member
Response, precision, and speed are more influenced by technique than they are by pedals. Some drummers tend to believe that a pedal is a machine that should do the work for them. That's laughable. A pedal is a tool, just like a drumstick. Unless it's broken, a tool gives you what you put into it.
Being a mechanical device, a pedal is also very unlike a drumstick. While they don't do the work for you, they are designed to do two things; assist in stopping the beater form moving backwards, and assist in returning the beater forward. And they don't all perform this equally well.
The better your footwork technique is, the more a well designed pedal will in fact take the load off of the drummer. This isn't doing the work for you but it is doing the extra work that you should be doing in the first place. Obviously the pedal only reacts to your input. But by design it performs a function when given that input.
I don't think it matters what brand or model the pedal is, as long as it performs well, i.e. responsive, smooth, quiet, etc. Whatever quality pedal feels best to you is the right one.
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