Andy
Honorary Member
Hugely busy of late, getting all the aspects of our two new ranges sorted out ready for launch at LDS in October (& also customer's kits to go out). One testing snippet I thought I'd share relates to spikes. We did some A-B testing of various methods of terminating bass drum spurs & floor tom legs. Of special interest was the results we got with floor tom testing. We compared standard rubber feet - Pearl isolation feet - spikes. The Pearl isolation feet worked well, & offered a worthwhile improvement over standard feet, but spikes were better again!! Of course, spikes only work on a drum rug or similar, but really, who plays without a drum rug/carpet of some sort these days except on a stage riser or similar? (even then, I still use a rug).
We concluded that the rubber feet present quite a large contact area when on carpet, especially carpet with a generous pile, whereas spike footprint is minute. The caveat here is that we only tested the differences on our aluminium legs. Heavy steel legs may yield different results.
Just thought I'd share a bit of trivia.
We concluded that the rubber feet present quite a large contact area when on carpet, especially carpet with a generous pile, whereas spike footprint is minute. The caveat here is that we only tested the differences on our aluminium legs. Heavy steel legs may yield different results.
Just thought I'd share a bit of trivia.