TAMA Iron Cobra 900 Rolling Glide Twin Bass-Drum Pedal

You can adjust the angle of the footboard and the beater holder independently. The new Bearing Hinge on the footplate now sports a two-piece design for minimal stress and maximal smoothness, while the improved Para-Clamp II Pro supports the widest variety of bass-drum hoops in TAMA s catalog. This bass-drum pedal includes a convenient hard carrying case for safe transport to and from gigs.

Pedal Anchor

To keep left-side double pedals from walking, a special stabilizer is mounted to the outside frame. This augments the stability of the floor anchor bolts.

Rolling Glide LiteSprocket

The Rolling Glide cam is a true round sprocket that provides smooth and consistent action throughout the entire course of the beater stroke. It s 40% lighter than TAMA s previous cam and gives the Iron Cobra a lighter yet more controllable feel.

Cobra Coil

Until now, the only way to adjust your beater stroke action was to tighten the pedal spring. This resulted in a heavy, sluggish action. The Cobra Coil solves the problem by adding a steel return spring.

The return spring constantly presses the footboard to its original position, tightening the relationship between foot and pedal. Even better, the Cobra Coil is adjustable to different positions on the Iron Cobra footboard base plate.

Power-Strike Cobra Beater

The constant evolution of Iron Cobra has always been driven in part by TAMA s passion for sound, or more precisely, TAMA s passion to bring the best out of each and every bass drum on which Iron Cobra is played. The latest version of Iron Cobra features a smaller diameter but thicker beater-head combination that delivers more attack than previous designs.

The distance between the beater head s face and shaft have been increased. Drummers found this alteration improved their sense of control during faster passages.

Vari-Pitch Beater Holder

Vari-Pitch beater angle adjustments are completely independent of the footboard angle. The Speedo-Ring allows you to adjust the angle of the footboard link independently of the beater angle. The combination of Speedo-Ring and Vari-Pitch offer a range of incremental adjustments that will satisfy any style.

Swivel Spring Tight

The conventional approach to the spring assembly has been to anchor the bottom of the spring while the top of the spring is being pulled from various angles throughout the pedal s cycle. But a spring being pulled at an angle represents wasted energy and causes turbulence.

The Swivel Spring Tight assembly solves this problem, recapturing that lost energy and optimizing smoothness through the use of a contoured assembly that allows the base to swivel freely with the spring. This enables a straight spring pull during the pedal s entire cycle, resulting in the smoothest and lightest action ever found on a bass-drum pedal.

Hinge Guard Block

TAMA has changed the construction of the Bearing Hinge on the footplate from a one-piece assembly to two pieces, which holds the bearing more evenly, minimizing stress and maximizing smoothness while adding to the pedal s sense of power.

Oiles Bearing Hinge

To reinforce durability, the Iron Cobra 900 Series features a thicker, 6mm diameter, shaft. Oiles Bearing Hinges create far less friction than standard ball bearings. They also eliminate unwanted side-to-side motion while providing superior durability.

Speedo-Ring

TAMA eliminated another source of friction by replacing the traditional nylon rocker cam with the Speedo-Ring, a rocker cam with a high-quality built-in ball-bearing rocker.

Quick-Hook

Quick-Hook not only allows rapid spring attachment and reattachment for rapid setup and teardown, it also eliminates wobbling and allows maximum power transmission to the Speedo-Ring. So you never have to worry about it slipping off during performance.

Para-Clamp II Pro

TAMA now introduces Para-Clamp II, an even more clever and useful version of the popular original. The Para-Clamp II is capable of gripping the widest variety of bass-drum hoops ever.

The improvement is largely due to its newly designed three-dimensional rubber grip. Holding power is increased and the possibility of scratching the hoop is eliminated. Setup and breakdown are easily facilitated while sitting on a throne, because the T-bolt of the Para-Clamp II Pro is on the side of the footboard rather than under it.

Carrying Cases Included

You know what pedals go through night after night. After being stomped on over and over, they get thrown in bags and road cases where there s more hard rock and roll than the gig itself. That s why precision instruments like the Iron Cobras come with their own specially designed protective carrying cases.