Drum Hardware · Models

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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.

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Axis Longboard A

Drum hardware · United States

The Longboard A is the pedal fast double-bass playing is measured against: a solid machined linkage, sealed bearings, and a footboard long enough to play heel-toe across its whole length.

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Trick Pro1-V

Drum hardware · United States

The Pro1-V's adjustments — spring tension, beater angle, footboard angle — are all independent and made without tools, and the bearings are low enough friction that the pedal returns without help.

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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.

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Czarcie Kopyto Direct Drive Pedal

Drum hardware · Poland

Czarcie Kopyto builds direct-drive pedals in small numbers in Poland, configured to the buyer's specification and sold largely direct, with a following among extreme metal drummers.

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Mapex Falcon

Drum hardware

The Falcon lets a drummer swap between chain, strap, and direct drive on the same frame and adjust the beater's weight distribution, making it one of the most reconfigurable production pedals.

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DW 3000

Drum hardware

The 3000 keeps the 5000's single-chain geometry with simpler adjustment and lighter castings, and is the pedal most often bought as a first serious upgrade.

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DW 9500 Hi-Hat Stand

Drum hardware · United States

The 9500 adds a rotating leg section so the stand can be positioned around a double pedal, and DW's TriPivot toe clamp, which lets the footboard angle be set independently of the legs.

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Tama Speed Cobra

Drum hardware · Japan

The Speed Cobra lengthens the footboard and shortens the beater throw, trading power for speed, and became standard equipment in fast double-pedal playing.

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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.

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Roc-N-Soc Manual Spindle

Drum hardware · United States

The Manual Spindle throne offers the same contoured seat tops — round, saddle, or cycle — on a threaded post, for players who would rather not depend on a gas cylinder.

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DW 9000

Drum hardware · United States

The 9000 adds an infinitely adjustable cam, a floating rotor, and independent spring and beater angle adjustment to the 5000's geometry, at the cost of weight and complexity.

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Pearl Demon Drive

Drum hardware · Japan

Demon Drive uses a direct linkage with an unusually long footboard and a Ninja bearing set, and its slave pedal drives through a duo-deck shaft designed to feel the same as the primary.

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DW MDD

Drum hardware · United States

The MDD is DW's answer to the direct-drive market: a machined aluminium linkage with no chain, and a cam that can be swapped between three profiles rather than adjusted along a curve.

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Evans RealFeel Practice Pad

Drum hardware · United States

The RealFeel is the practice pad most drummers own: a wood core with recycled gum rubber on one side and a harder surface on the other, in sizes that fit a snare stand.

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DW 9000 Cymbal Stand

Drum hardware · United States

The 9000 boom stands use a toothless tilter with infinite adjustment rather than fixed teeth, which matters when a cymbal has to sit at an angle the teeth do not offer.

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DW 5000

Drum hardware · United States

Drum Workshop bought Camco's tooling and turned its pedal into the DW 5000, whose single-chain accelerator cam has been the default professional bass drum pedal for four decades. The AD4 is the version most drummers mean when they say "a five thousand".

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Tama Iron Cobra Lever Glide Hi-Hat

Drum hardware · Japan

The Lever Glide replaces the usual direct pull with a lever linkage, reducing the effort needed to close the hats and letting the pedal sit lower.

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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.

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Yamaha HS1200 Hi-Hat Stand

Drum hardware · Japan

The HS1200 has been in the catalogue in one form or another for decades, and its rotating legs and heavy base make it a common choice under an electronic kit as well as an acoustic one.

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Vic Firth Heavy Hitter Practice Pad

Drum hardware · United States

The Heavy Hitter pads offer a soft gum rubber side and a harder side, so a player can practise against both a forgiving and an unforgiving rebound on the same pad.

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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.

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Sonor Perfect Balance

Drum hardware · Germany

Designed with Jojo Mayer, the Perfect Balance is deliberately light and minimal — a long flat footboard, a single chain, and no adjustment the player does not need — and it folds nearly flat for travel.

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Ludwig Speed King

Drum hardware · United States

The Speed King hides its springs inside the pedal's cast body, which made it compact, distinctive, and famously squeaky. It was the pedal on most American drum kits for two decades.

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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.

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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.

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Tama Roadpro Stands

Drum hardware · Japan

The Roadpro range is Tama's heavy hardware line — double-braced legs, quick-set tilters, and hinged memory locks that come off without dismantling the stand.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Remo Practice Pad

Drum hardware · United States

Remo's practice pads use a tensioned Mylar head over a muffled shell rather than a rubber slab, which reproduces the rebound of a tuned drum more closely than rubber does.

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Meinl Cajon Bass Pedal

Hand percussion · Germany

A cable-driven beater that lets a seated cajon player add a bass drum with one foot, which is how the instrument ended up in duo and singer-songwriter setups where a kit will not fit.

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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.

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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.

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Dunnett R-Class Throw-Off

Drum hardware · Canada

The R-Class is a snare strainer rather than a drum, sold as an upgrade for snares whose original throw-offs slip or rattle — one of the few percussion components with a following of its own.