CaTaPulT
10-31-2009, 12:27 AM
Greetings all.
I ordered a Yamaha DFP-9415 and got it on Monday.
This is a discontinued double bass pedal, Yamaha replaced it with the 9500 I believe thus the price was decent for this thing at $220.00 US, it was worth anywhere between $450.00 to $600.00 when it was the mainstream pedal.
The reason for wanting this pedal was the direct drive, I've never tried one and since I liked my old Yamaha single pedal (double chain) I figured I'd give this a try.
I have 8 pictures listed, here are the descriptions of each picture.
Picture #1) Once the box was open, this is what comes out. It's a carry bag, kind of a nice touch but I sure wouldn't want to disassemble the pedal to this level each time I moved the kit if I gig'ed the kit (which I don't).
Picture #2) Here's what the inside of the bag looks like, the pedals are wrapped in a denim material with Velcro straps sewed onto the denim covers, there's soft material dividers also which helps keep things in place and prevent scratching. All in all, nice bag if you plan on using it.
Picture #3) These are all the parts that come out of the bag, the pedal bottom plates have to be assembled which can be a bit of a pain since the rest of the pedal is flopping around like a fish while you try doing this! LOL :) The other really cool thing is the tool included with this pedal, it has a drum key at one end and a hex (allen key) at the other, this is the only tool you need to assemble and adjust this pedal. The main pedal also has slots this tool attaches to under the footboard.
Picture #4) Here's the DFP-9415 fully assembled, the very colorful stickers on the footboards are easily removed, they use a dab of easily removed sticky stuff at the top and bottom of each sticker! LOL :)
Picture #5) This is a picture of the main pedal showing a close up of the direct drive. The arrow will be talked about later.
Picture #6) Here's another picture of the direct drive but this time on the slave pedal.
Picture #7) Here it is, with the colorful stickers removed, I am leaving the blue plastic covers on for a while, once they start getting worn, I will remove these to reveal the standard Yamaha silver footboards (yawn).
Looking at this pedal, I found it odd that the slave pedal has a attachment for a beater on it. After examining this, I think if you were to remove the secondary spring assembly from the master pedal and connect it to the slave, you could have two single pedals, the arrows show the connection points for the spring and the beater on the slave pedal. This is kinda cool! :)
Picture #8) Here the pedal installed on my kit, notice the felt dust already starting! LOL :D
NOTES: When I first installed the pedal on the kit and started playing with it, within about the first 2 minutes, the master pedal started a really loud squeak, man oh man, at this point I wasn't impressed, out came the WD40, I first sprayed the footboard/heel plate connection, that wasn't it, then I sprayed the spring assembly, that wasn't it, then I sprayed the direct drive connection at the pedal, that was it (see arrow on Picture #5), once I did this, the pedal went very quiet and has been that way since. This pedal is very quiet and very smooth, it's also very fast, faster than I'll ever be! LOL :)
This pedal is also easily adjusted for beater and footboard angle, as mentioned, the included tool is all I needed! :)
I'm not a good enough double bass player to form an opinion as to how well it performs under very fast double bass drumming since I can't do fast double bass drumming but from the feel of it so far, I'd have to say this is a pretty good pedal but then again, remember, at one time, this pedal commanded a premium price, so it should be good! :)
Yep, so far I like it, time will tell whether this becomes my everyday pedal or I go back to my DW-7000-2.
Take care
Regards: >>>> Jack <<<<
I ordered a Yamaha DFP-9415 and got it on Monday.
This is a discontinued double bass pedal, Yamaha replaced it with the 9500 I believe thus the price was decent for this thing at $220.00 US, it was worth anywhere between $450.00 to $600.00 when it was the mainstream pedal.
The reason for wanting this pedal was the direct drive, I've never tried one and since I liked my old Yamaha single pedal (double chain) I figured I'd give this a try.
I have 8 pictures listed, here are the descriptions of each picture.
Picture #1) Once the box was open, this is what comes out. It's a carry bag, kind of a nice touch but I sure wouldn't want to disassemble the pedal to this level each time I moved the kit if I gig'ed the kit (which I don't).
Picture #2) Here's what the inside of the bag looks like, the pedals are wrapped in a denim material with Velcro straps sewed onto the denim covers, there's soft material dividers also which helps keep things in place and prevent scratching. All in all, nice bag if you plan on using it.
Picture #3) These are all the parts that come out of the bag, the pedal bottom plates have to be assembled which can be a bit of a pain since the rest of the pedal is flopping around like a fish while you try doing this! LOL :) The other really cool thing is the tool included with this pedal, it has a drum key at one end and a hex (allen key) at the other, this is the only tool you need to assemble and adjust this pedal. The main pedal also has slots this tool attaches to under the footboard.
Picture #4) Here's the DFP-9415 fully assembled, the very colorful stickers on the footboards are easily removed, they use a dab of easily removed sticky stuff at the top and bottom of each sticker! LOL :)
Picture #5) This is a picture of the main pedal showing a close up of the direct drive. The arrow will be talked about later.
Picture #6) Here's another picture of the direct drive but this time on the slave pedal.
Picture #7) Here it is, with the colorful stickers removed, I am leaving the blue plastic covers on for a while, once they start getting worn, I will remove these to reveal the standard Yamaha silver footboards (yawn).
Looking at this pedal, I found it odd that the slave pedal has a attachment for a beater on it. After examining this, I think if you were to remove the secondary spring assembly from the master pedal and connect it to the slave, you could have two single pedals, the arrows show the connection points for the spring and the beater on the slave pedal. This is kinda cool! :)
Picture #8) Here the pedal installed on my kit, notice the felt dust already starting! LOL :D
NOTES: When I first installed the pedal on the kit and started playing with it, within about the first 2 minutes, the master pedal started a really loud squeak, man oh man, at this point I wasn't impressed, out came the WD40, I first sprayed the footboard/heel plate connection, that wasn't it, then I sprayed the spring assembly, that wasn't it, then I sprayed the direct drive connection at the pedal, that was it (see arrow on Picture #5), once I did this, the pedal went very quiet and has been that way since. This pedal is very quiet and very smooth, it's also very fast, faster than I'll ever be! LOL :)
This pedal is also easily adjusted for beater and footboard angle, as mentioned, the included tool is all I needed! :)
I'm not a good enough double bass player to form an opinion as to how well it performs under very fast double bass drumming since I can't do fast double bass drumming but from the feel of it so far, I'd have to say this is a pretty good pedal but then again, remember, at one time, this pedal commanded a premium price, so it should be good! :)
Yep, so far I like it, time will tell whether this becomes my everyday pedal or I go back to my DW-7000-2.
Take care
Regards: >>>> Jack <<<<