What is the best pedal for the money?

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At some point you get diminishing returns spending tons of money on a pedal
I want a used pedal under $300
But I also want to know the sweet spot on performance and price on the new pedals - thx 😊
 
single bass? well bless ya..

Get a new Speed King and see how it works'. looks like 199 new

 
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in my day pedals were $70
Today I'd go $90
nothings changed (for the better)

like the caveman you could only improve on the club so much..
$300 for a pedal seems like you're buying the whole car
 
Pearl eliminator chain or dw 5000
 
Answer: it will be the pedal that works best for you. I have tried quite a few pedals over the decades based on others' input. I really didn't take to any of the pedals I purchased. I thought when I had saved enough money to purchase a DW 9000 chain drive my search would be over. As much as I wanted to like it--and I certainly appreciated it--it just didn't quite feel like "the one" I was after. Randomly I heard about a DW employee who was asked if he could have any DW pedal absolutely free which model would it be. I was shocked the one he chose was a 1990's USA fully made in house DW 5000 strap pedal. He raved about it. As fate would have it, I came across a Reverb ad that very week for a purchased new 1990's USA DW 5000ND Delta Strap pedal that sat in a studio--barely used--for years. I snagged it. That's the one for me!!! I'm taking it to my grave.
 
Vintage Old School said:
I was shocked the one he chose was a 1990's USA fully made in house DW 5000 strap pedal.
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that's the one I have
and they still make it - it's now called - 6000 - they went up a 1000

no stinkin red plate on the bottom nothing
it''s looks to be a gem
www.dwdrums.com

6000 Series Pedals | Drum Workshop Inc.

Add modern pedal features to your vintage or bop kit, while the maintaining the lightweight feel of a timeless era.
www.dwdrums.com www.dwdrums.com

Put a Speed King or Japan Tama Superstar type beater in and go
www.dwdrums.com

6000 Single Bass Pedal, Nylon Strap | Drum Workshop Inc.

6000 Series pedals are based on our original 5000 Series radius rod design.
www.dwdrums.com www.dwdrums.com

I still may think the Ludwig Speed King bearings may last longer
but other than that if you don't mind a noisy left bearing after 30 years of use go for it

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249,99
I'd still look at a new Speed King 199.00 maybe

actually some Tama and Yamaha basic pedals might be all you need
the Tama Standard for instance
 
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the Tama Standard
HP30

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www.tama.com

Standard Single Pedal HP30 | Drum Pedals | HARDWARE | PRODUCTS | TAMA Drums

Find a great collection of 「Standard Single Pedal HP30」 at TAMA Drums. The HP30 utilizes the same offset cam design as the Iron Cobra Power Glide. The offset cam offers increased power and speed as the beater reaches the end of the stroke. The beater angle can easily be adjusted: a feature...
www.tama.com www.tama.com

Less is more sometimes
when you're just kicking something..

69.99
and there's a double version



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for 169.99
Just change the beater - get rid of those weird "my favorite martian" (I call em) puny beaters

and put a big round felt in....
usually has a "Japan' stamped washer and nut on top
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HP 30 may be all you need unless you regularly play the Taj Mahal and/or football stadiums ...
 
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Like @Vintage Old School , I have found pedals to be extremely personal. Of the ones mentioned (that I have tried, mind you!) I have found that Yamaha 7210 to be amazingly easy to play, and it's relatively cheap. I own a 9500D which was NOT cheap, but one of the 7210s is on the kit at our library studio, and it actually feels better than my 9500. It also feels better to me than the DW 5000 that's on the electronic kit there, but those 5000s come in so many configurations I have no idea which it is.

Ultimately, the best advice is always going to be get your foot on some and try them if you can. But don't be fooled into thinking you have to spend anywhere near $300 to get an easy-playing pedal.
 
DW's strong suit in my opinion is the ease of repairing. Parts are easily found and pretty straightforward to replace. That's one of the reasons I've stuck with them over the years. A Turbo cam 5000 is theoretically the same geometry as an original Camco, and a Turbo 6000 basically IS an original Camco.

If I were to start all over again, I'd consider the Tama and Pearl options, as I know they also make good stuff.

Yamaha pedals feel great but replacement parts are hard to come by, and a friend of mine wore out a brand new FP9C double (albeit with some pretty intense playing) in about three years, and hasn't been able to repair it.

But I think the best pedal for the money right now is the recently redesigned DW 2000 with the accelerator cam. Hundred bucks for a single!
 
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Yamaha pedals feel great but replacement parts are hard to come by, and a friend of mine wore out a brand new FP9C double (albeit with some pretty intense playing) in about three years, and hasn't been able to repair it.
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Are you (or your friend) aware of yamaha24x7.com? It’s an official Yamaha site that lets you order pretty much any replacement part for everything Yamaha makes. I’ve used that site maybe a dozen times to order parts I need. Unless they’re out of stock, they should have whatever your friend needs to fix his pedal.

Yamaha

www.yamaha24x7.com www.yamaha24x7.com
 
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If you're shopping used pedals under $300, grab a DW 5000, Iron Cobra, or Pearl Eliminator. I've played all three before. For new, I would say the sweet spot is $200–400.
 
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TK-421 said:
Are you (or your friend) aware of yamaha24x7.com? It’s an official Yamaha site that lets you order pretty much any replacement part for everything Yamaha makes. I’ve used that site maybe a dozen times to order parts I need. Unless they’re out of stock, they should have whatever your friend needs to fix his pedal.

Yamaha

www.yamaha24x7.com www.yamaha24x7.com
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I had forgotten about that particular website, so thanks for the reminder! I got some hoops from them a long time ago.

For what it's worth, my friend went back to an Iron Cobra a couple months ago. He does a lot of heel-toe double kick work, and his old IC didn't strip components like the FP9 suffered from. I guess we'll see about the new pedal, but if he ended up in Europe with a busted Yamaha pedal, it would be very difficult to order and receive those replacement parts.
 
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Vintage Old School said:
Answer: it will be the pedal that works best for you. I have tried quite a few pedals over the decades based on others' input. I really didn't take to any of the pedals I purchased. I thought when I had saved enough money to purchase a DW 9000 chain drive my search would be over. As much as I wanted to like it--and I certainly appreciated it--it just didn't quite feel like "the one" I was after. Randomly I heard about a DW employee who was asked if he could have any DW pedal absolutely free which model would it be. I was shocked the one he chose was a 1990's USA fully made in house DW 5000 strap pedal. He raved about it. As fate would have it, I came across a Reverb ad that very week for a purchased new 1990's USA DW 5000ND Delta Strap pedal that sat in a studio--barely used--for years. I snagged it. That's the one for me!!! I'm taking it to my grave.
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A mistake, that a lot of drummers do is buy a good pedal try it and move on... before messing with any adjustments!.
most pedals, even the cheap ones have enough adjustments to suit a lot of players, the only thing needed is to try those BEFORE giving up on any pedal.
Adjustments don't need to be extreme, a slight change of angle on the beater, different tension on the spring, and so on.
My only personal thing with pedals is that they have to have a full plate at the bottom, I have played with pedals without one, and they always kept coming apart, not to mention they had a very unstable feel, they would wiggle from side to side which made playing them quite difficult, but that was what I could afford at the time so I lived with them. I would even shy away from the Trick pedals without the full base plate because I would be afraid that the same will eventually happen. edit: I just looked at those and they have a sort of spider web base plate so not full plate but much more solid. (I still would not buy those).
 
TK-421 said:
Are you (or your friend) aware of yamaha24x7.com? It’s an official Yamaha site that lets you order pretty much any replacement part for everything Yamaha makes. I’ve used that site maybe a dozen times to order parts I need. Unless they’re out of stock, they should have whatever your friend needs to fix his pedal.

Yamaha

www.yamaha24x7.com www.yamaha24x7.com
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I can't really speak to other pedals, but just about everything Yamaha makes is built to last. I've had the same Flying Dragon pedal for 15 years (maybe more?) and it's been played into oblivion. Never had a single issue with it. All their hardware is high quality in my experience. Can't go wrong with a Yamaha pedal.
 
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