PQleyR
Platinum Member
Here's a strange one. I've had a pair of Tama Speed Cobras for a few months now, and have got on with them really well...great playing action, good power and speed etc.
However, when I got back from a recent trip abroad I noticed that the right footboard actually touched the baseplate before the beater contacted the head, resulting in a metallic click with every stroke! I had taken off the Cobra Coils to reduce noise while recording, and for that recording I'd used a 22" kick with no apparent problems. When I got back to my 26" I experimented with the tuning and tuned the head a lot lower than usual to see what it sounded like, but then encountered this strange problem. I put the Cobra Coils back on to prevent the click but still found that even when I stood on the pedal, the beater didn't actually touch the head...when I play a stroke, the momentum carries the beater forward beyond the point it stops if I just depress the pedal slowly. The left pedal doesn't have this problem at all. Has anyone else encountered something like this? It's really strange, and I don't remember it being like this when I first got the pedal either.
However, when I got back from a recent trip abroad I noticed that the right footboard actually touched the baseplate before the beater contacted the head, resulting in a metallic click with every stroke! I had taken off the Cobra Coils to reduce noise while recording, and for that recording I'd used a 22" kick with no apparent problems. When I got back to my 26" I experimented with the tuning and tuned the head a lot lower than usual to see what it sounded like, but then encountered this strange problem. I put the Cobra Coils back on to prevent the click but still found that even when I stood on the pedal, the beater didn't actually touch the head...when I play a stroke, the momentum carries the beater forward beyond the point it stops if I just depress the pedal slowly. The left pedal doesn't have this problem at all. Has anyone else encountered something like this? It's really strange, and I don't remember it being like this when I first got the pedal either.