Drum Hardware - Arco

Tama Dyna-Sync

Drum hardware · Japan

The Dyna-Sync is a direct-drive pedal whose linkage keeps the footboard and beater moving in a fixed relationship, so the feel does not change through the stroke.
Roc-N-Soc Nitro

Drum hardware · United States

The Nitro uses a gas cylinder rather than a threaded spindle, so height is set by a lever and holds under weight. It is the throne most often specified on professional riders.
Tama Iron Cobra

Drum hardware · Japan

The Iron Cobra offered two cams — Power Glide, weighted for acceleration, and Rolling Glide, round for even feel — and made choosing between them a normal part of buying a pedal. It has been the DW 5000's main rival since the 1990s.
Sonor 600 Series Hardware

Drum hardware · Germany

The 600 series is Sonor's deliberately light hardware line: single-braced legs and small footprints, for drummers who carry their own gear and do not need a stand that could hold a gong.
Dixon PP9

Drum hardware · Taiwan

The PP9 series is Dixon's own-brand professional pedal, built in the factory that supplies hardware to a long list of better-known names.
Pearl ICON Rack

Drum hardware · Japan

The ICON rack uses curved bars that follow the arc a drummer's arms actually travel, which puts mounted cymbals and toms closer than a straight-bar rack of the same footprint.
Pearl Eliminator Redline

Drum hardware · Japan

The Eliminator ships with a set of interchangeable coloured cams, each a different curve, so a drummer can change the pedal's acceleration profile in a minute rather than choosing it at purchase.
Gibraltar Remote Hi-Hat

Drum hardware

A remote hi-hat separates the pedal from the cymbals with a cable, so a second pair of hats can sit anywhere in a large kit — or so the main hats can be placed where a double pedal would otherwise be.
Gibraltar 9608 Throne

Drum hardware

Gibraltar's 9608 series pairs a moulded foam seat with a heavy double-braced base, and is the common alternative to a Roc-N-Soc at a lower price.
Gibraltar Road Series Rack

Drum hardware

A rack replaces a floor full of stands with a tube frame, so a large kit can be marked, struck, and reassembled identically. Gibraltar's clamp catalogue is deep enough that almost any configuration can be built.
Canopus Hoops and Parts

Drum hardware · Japan

Canopus sells hoops, snare wires, tension rods, and bearing-edge work as a catalogue in their own right, which is unusual: most of it is bought to change how a drum from another maker sounds.
Yamaha FP9

Drum hardware · Japan

The FP9 is offered in chain and direct-drive versions built on the same frame, with a hinge and bearing set designed so the two feel like variants rather than different pedals.

Roc-N-Soc

Roc-N-Soc makes seats: the Nitro gas-lift throne and the contoured saddle and cycle tops that turned drum seating into a considered purchase rather than an afterthought bundled with a hardware pack.
Gibraltar

Gibraltar makes hardware and nothing else: stands, clamps, thrones, and the rack systems that let a large kit be assembled the same way twice. Its clamp and tube catalogue is effectively a construction set.
Trick Drums

Trick machines aluminium drum shells and builds the Pro1-V pedal, whose independent, tool-free adjustments and low-friction bearings made it a fixture in metal drumming. The company also makes drum triggers and throw-offs.
Czarcie Kopyto

Czarcie Kopyto — the name means "devil's hoof" — builds direct-drive bass drum pedals in Poland with a following among extreme metal drummers, sold largely direct and often configured to order.
Axis Percussion

Axis builds pedals from machined aluminium with a solid direct-drive linkage instead of a chain, and with adjustment down to the sweep angle. They are the reference point for fast double-pedal playing and are polarising for exactly the same reason.
Dixon

Dixon has made hardware for a long list of better-known brands and sells under its own name as well. The PP series pedals and the Little Roomer compact kits are the products most often seen outside its OEM work.
Sonor

Founded by Johannes Link in Weissenfels and rebuilt at Bad Berleburg after the war, Sonor is the oldest drum company still making drums. Its reputation rests on dense, thin beech and maple shells and on hardware heavy enough to be a running joke among drummers who move their own gear. The SQ2 system lets a buyer specify shell timber, thickness, and bearing edge drum by drum.
PDP

Drum Workshop launched PDP to put DW's shell profiles and hardware geometry into imported drums at a fraction of the price. The Concept Maple line in particular is built to specifications a DW owner recognises immediately.
Dunnett Classic Drums

Ronn Dunnett is best known for the R-Class throw-off — a strainer sold to drummers rebuilding other makers' snares — and for being among the first to build production titanium shells. Dunnett also revived the George Way brand.
Camco

Camco built drums in Oaklawn, Illinois, and later Chanute, Kansas, for barely two decades, but its bass drum pedal became one of the most copied designs in percussion: Drum Workshop bought the tooling and it became the DW 5000. Original Oaklawn-badge kits are collectors' items.
Canopus

Canopus builds in Tokyo with an unusually explicit vintage brief: thin shells, reinforcement rings, and a parts catalogue — bearing edges, hoops, snare wires — sold to drummers rebuilding other makers' drums. The Zelkova and Yaiba lines are its best known.
Rogers Drums

Rogers grew out of a nineteenth-century New Jersey leather business into the drum company that defined mid-century American hardware. The Swiv-O-Matic mounting system and the Dyna-Sonic snare — with its floating snare frame — were copied for decades. The brand passed through several owners after the 1960s and has been revived more than once.

Percussion Instruments

Instruments sounded by striking, shaking, scraping, or related percussive action.