AF
Excellent
These beaters are the best in my opionion. I think Tama really hit a home run with these detachable beaters. It's efficient as you are not required to be a new metal rod each time you need a new beater. I have the entire range - felt, rubber and wood. My favourite, which is an entirely subjective and application dependant (you wouldn't use the wooden one at a jazz gig) is the wood. The wooden one has lots of attack and not as much sustain. As I use 2 mics this one is perfect for the inside mic and I use the outside mic to balance my sustain. If I was only using one mic I would use either the felt whic has the most balanced tonality or the rubber if I wanted a more slappy quality to the bass drum. The tonality of the rubber beater is in between the felt and wood. The rubber attack has a slightly different quality to the wood and to my ear sounds slightly slappier whereas the wood is very aggressive.
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Doesn't stay put
I fitted this to a one year old Iron Cobra and it kept moving and rotating on the beater shaft during shows.
The big problem with this was I was playing support to another band using another drummers kick drum which damaged his bass drum head. Not cool.
The sound was great with plenty of attack as you would want from a beater like this but I cant afford to have a piece of gear as important as this letting me down.
Such a pity as I love everything Tama. I play starclasic maple and use they're hard wear. I have lost trust in this part though. The build quality is not good. Nothing like the Pearl Eliminator or some of the other top pedals.
The big problem with this was I was playing support to another band using another drummers kick drum which damaged his bass drum head. Not cool.
The sound was great with plenty of attack as you would want from a beater like this but I cant afford to have a piece of gear as important as this letting me down.
Such a pity as I love everything Tama. I play starclasic maple and use they're hard wear. I have lost trust in this part though. The build quality is not good. Nothing like the Pearl Eliminator or some of the other top pedals.
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JC
I prefer plastic than Rubber
Rubber is not my preference but can work good
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p
perfect
A must have for a mesh head electronic/converted bass drum users, as felt is notorious for eating mesh for dinner.
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JH
Superb Tama product
I bought this to attach to my Tama Speed cobra pedal, its an excellent product and is built to the usual expected high quality from Tama. It produces a nice slap against the bass drum and is a little bit heavier than other beaters so is nice and powerful.
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CK
Absolutely love them.
In my experience:
With these i found a good balance between the weight of the beater and the adjustment of the pedal springs.
I like the punch on impact, and the relatively low ammount of rebound it gives, compared to some other rubber beaters.
With these i found a good balance between the weight of the beater and the adjustment of the pedal springs.
I like the punch on impact, and the relatively low ammount of rebound it gives, compared to some other rubber beaters.
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