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The Danmar cradle is overpriced for what you get, though I suppose it could be said you pay for the Idea. Not much to it. I found for a 16" FT it does work, yet at least on the carpet in the Drum room it's a bit unstable. A bit too much movement. I'm also back to a similar problem I had trying to use a Crappy gibraulter BD riser (since retired) With the DW pedal having to go past 90 deg to hit head. Any closer and the chain hits the rim of the drum. This sucks as it's just wrong and not worth playing. It looks like the rim must be cut back in order to get the pedal in the right position with out exceeding 90 deg strike zone. It's not a pedal adjustment from what I'm seeing.

I also Have spent a lot of time trying adjust the DW pedal (a 5000 from a DBL Pedal set) and I've had enough of it. I can't get anywhere close to my axis pedal feel and that pedal is so old I bought it direct from axis b4 they were in music stores. I'm Finished with DW pedals and I'm going to get a new Axis to use with my other drums. I also have a single DW pedal that while much better I'm still unable to adjust to ease and quickness of the axis pedal.

On the positive side. The Tama 16" FT sounds really good. I bought an Aquarian Studio X for The batter. Put a 10" x 10" piece of 1" Tempurpedic Mattress foam touching the batter, and front head is a clear new Emperor. I cut an offset 2.75 Diameter hole in the emperor. It sounds very nice and I like this sound far more than a tinty boomy two head open sound. But that's just what I like I suppose.

Maybe the pearl legs idea would work better on the FT as BD idea. Who knows? I find the lack of stability annoying.

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