Models

Axis Longboard A

Machined aluminium, direct drive, long footboard

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.

Trick Pro1-V

Tool-free adjustment on a machined frame

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.

Czarcie Kopyto Direct Drive Pedal

Polish pedals built to order

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.

Mapex Falcon

Interchangeable drive and beater weighting

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.

DW 3000

The affordable DW pedal

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.

Tama Speed Cobra

Longer footboard, lighter action

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.

DW 9000

Fully adjustable double-chain pedal

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.

DW MDD

Machined Direct Drive

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.

DW 5000

The Camco pedal, continued

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".

Dixon PP9

Taiwanese pedal with heavy hardware

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 Eliminator Redline

Cam swapping by colour

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.

Tama Iron Cobra

The pedal that made cam choice a decision

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 Perfect Balance

Jojo Mayer's single-chain pedal

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.

Ludwig Speed King

The internal-spring pedal of the 1960s

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.

Yamaha FP9

Chain and direct drive from one platform

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.

Tama Dyna-Sync

Tama's direct-drive pedal

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.