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4.5
Really great stand (to me as a novice) but NOT made for heavy rubberized e hi hats like mine but this issue is RESOLVED!I purchased the DW 3000 two leg stand for my Fesley 1200 kit because I wanted a solid floor plate under my pedal and as expected, it did NOT support the heavy rubbery moving hi hat to keep up off the controller. Electric moving hi hats are heavier than acoustic and these regular branded stands, both two and three leg, were not built to support that weight but…here is the fix that actually works damn near perfect: Go to Lowe’s or Home Depot. Buy a short pop up sprinkler. Take it apart, it’s easy since they just screw together. Remove the large, and only, spring that forces the head to retract when the water shuts off. Remove the hi hat upper and place this spring over the shaft of the hi hat controller. Reinstall hi hat. You will need to gently push it down a little to sit on the hi hat control shaft. Tighten up the clutch. You can see this spring is supporting the hi hat and a pair of headphones without issue. Do not use the spring from the regular (long) or extra tall pop up sprinkler head (that may be too much spring) unless you have the two piece moving hi hat with a bigger gap between the two halves. I do not have that kind (but will upgrade to that one day in the 14”). My hi hat is a 12” so I’m not sure how much heavier the 14” hi hat would be and it may need a taller spring from a taller sprinkler head. The pedal feels about the same as the original three leg hi hat stand from Fesley as it was made with a heavier spring in the stand to support the weight. The only other option is to use a static hi hat with the separate pedal (yuck).As far as the stand goes, I am VERY HAPPY with it. AGAIN, I am a NOVICE player that plays as a hobby, not a longtime pro with any stage experience or any experience but I DO know quality and dislike cheap crap. This DW3000 has thicker tubes than my original Fesley, really NICE clamps on it, the rod feels very strong and stout (I had to carefully drill out the hole of the controller to slide it down this thicker rod, the legs feel very meaty and sturdy, the rubber feet are large, it does not wobble on carpet as much as I thought it would for not being three legs but I still clamped it to my kit rack to hold it tight and still, and the duo chain to me looks thick and strong. There is also a spring tensioner which is at full tension with the stand at the shortest length, hence the sprinkler spring. It’s not one of the really high priced stands but I really really feel I got my money’s worth with this and I am very glad I spent the extra 50 for this stand compared to the one for 149 that used two rods as the floor plate like my old three leg stand and would really suck on a two leg stand without clamping it somewhere. However, the clutch has cheap plastic nuts that are large but I prefer metal so I did use a different clutch than the one that came with this stand.NOW: The other DOWN side and this again comes from using an ACOUSTIC stand with an e hi hat. I am 6 feet tall a still need to set this stand to the lowest point to play comfortably because the hi hat controller by itself raises the upper hat about a good six or seven inches. So that’s not a stand issue, it’s a hi hat height issue. The old Fesley stand stood shorter to accommodate the controller and I had to raise it up for me. So if you are shorter and sit much lower, these acoustic stands will probably feel high to you at their lowest setting. I used thinner felts on the hi hat upper and no felt on the bottom of the controller to keep the height as low as possible for me. You may want to consider an e hi hat two piece like from Roland, Unlock lightning, etc instead of the ones like mine with the bulky lower controller. Down the road I will try a two piece (upper and lower hat model) from Unlock Lightning in the 14” and see if I need the taller spring and see how it feels and pays.
