I've owned my Trick Drums Big Foot Low Mass Pedal for more than 3 years. The only maintenance I have performed was to lubricate with graphite. The pedal works as well as the first month I bought it. I've never needed to install replacement parts. Many of my friends are using Tama, Pearl, DW, PDP, DDrum, and Mapex pedals. The majority are replacing their springs yearly. Some have replaced springs every 6 months. A good number have told me that have had some bearing wear, and their pedals don't respond as smoothly as when they first got them. A number of my friends who own Trick Drum pedals are only using them at home, and are using Pearl Demon 3000D or Sonor Perfect Balance on the road; because they are more compact. After having problems with the Pearl and Sonor pedals on the road, they're now carrying their Trick Drum pedals on the road.

I've never been able to achieve this much control with any other pedal! The low Mass pedal makes it possible to vibrate your foot on the top surface of the pedal and the beater can vibrate on the bass drum head. The dynamic range is from ppp to fff-sfz. The pedal will move as fast as you can move your feet! The biggest problem I've had with this pedal is setting it up in the first place. Buy a steel rule; so you can measure the beater shaft height and pedal height. There are numerically graded settings for beater angle, pedal height. Write ALL settings down! It may take a couple of weeks or longer to get the settings you want; and you may want different settings depending on what you're playing. Recommendation: If you're playing a gig use settings in the middle. You won't have enough time to change settings between numbers; even if you wrote all of the settings down. I can't evaluate durability because I've only had this pedal for 4 months. However, it looks extremely well made.