TAMA Speed Cobra 910 Double Bass Drum Pedal

This pedal is solid but needs routine maintenance to operate at peak efficiency. You'll need to take it apart every 3 months and clean and lubricate. The drive shaft worn out pretty quickly so I recommend replacing the stock one after a little while. Adjustability is straightforward.

I also bought a double speed cobra with the cobra coils. Gave it a couple a weeks had to strip thos cobra coils right off bam outa there . Played with them another 2 years without the cobra coils trying to give them a chance they never really truly were right for me .went back to the 900 ahhh kissed by the sun cobras coils

I finally own a pair of these beauties! Playing Metal since 2002 and in all that time, I've tried almost every pedal on the market. Axis, Trick, Pearl, Dw. All of there topline pedals, great pedals! This pedal just does it for me in every single way. I get way more power and dexterity, playing over 230bpm, with these pedals than any other. Many would beg to differ but that is just from my personal experience and preference. I find myself progressing more and more each time I practice with these pedals. Any tool that allows you to progress in your craft is a tool that becomes apart of you, an extension from your mind and body, a true masterpiece. Thanks to TAMA, I can finally say I've found mine!

I bought my Speed Cobra in 2013 as a gigging pedal, and replaced my Powershifter with it, and put my Pearl at home on my house kit. I liked it initially. Pretty smooth. Not as smooth as my Pearl pedal, but I liked the long board design and trying a new pedal. It wasn't long before it started falling apart. After 6 months, the felt on the beaters turned to powder on my bass drum head and had to be replaced. I replaced them with wood beaters. All is good again. After about a year, I started having problems with the slave attachment. It locked up and I couldn't tighten the drum screws to attach it to the main pedal. The slave would fall off in the middle of songs on stage. If you've ever forgotten to tighten your screws to your slave, and have had this happen, you know how annoying it is. So, I switched out pedals. I brought the Speed Cobra home and used my Pearl on the road. I had barely been playing my kit at home. A couple hours a week. One day, I went to move my house drumset to a different location in my house. I took the Speed Cobra off my bass drum and attempted to place it in its case. The pedal literally disintegrated in my hands. I'm not kidding. The springs popped off. The bearings in the spindle shaft popped out. It's still in my case. I'm debating on getting it fixed and selling it or scrapping it for junk metal. I think Tama needs to go back to the drawing board on their pedals. I had an Iron Cobra for a few years and it had a similar problem, but it still worked when I got rid of it. I don't know why the Speed Cobra is so cheap. It's not durable and I've read similar reviews online. I personally wouldn't spend $430 on one if I had to do it over again. Buy a Powershifter instead. I've had mine since 2003 and it has been a workhorse. Best bang for your buck and extremely durable.

this and the pearl demon drive are my top favorite pedals u wont find better quality

I bought the Speed Cobra 910's as an upgrade from my old beaten down Iron Cobra 600's. In comparison to those, these speed cobra's have held up much better. A year into these beasts and they're still as smooth as the day i bought them, unlike the Iron Cobra's which were getting a bit "grindy." These pedals are significantly lighter than the 600's and are better in every way imaginable. these are mighty reliable, unrealistically smooth, lightweight and easily one of the best, if not the best chain drive pedals you can get for speedier metal types. However, they almost feel disconnected from my feet because of how lightweight they are. If you play metal and want a fantastic, long lasting chain drive solution for meshuggah style quads and mg-42 levels of double destruction, this is absolutely what you're looking for. I would strongly recommend you buy these pedals unless you want a "heavier" or more "connected" feeling pedal. For the heavier one, i'd recommend the DW 9000's if you can afford them, and Trick Dominator pedals if you want a precision experience. But if you want your pedals to work for you, making your experience almost comically easy on your muscles, this is absolutely as far as you should look. Overall: Great price, Great speed, Great durability. Smooth as butter, but more of a tool for your foot to manipulate rather than an extension of your feet.