I haven't read this all because its quite lengthy, but if you want to hear some f**king fast double kick, go to www.psycroptic.com and check out some of the songs. I saw them live a couple of times, and its all ligit... i can't believe it. Check the songs out: Colour of Sleep, Carnival of Vulgarity, the singing might not do it for you... but this is a drumming forum, and this guy is FAST!

They are currently working on a MODEL II unit.  They have recently modified the original drumometer unit and added a metronome to it.  I was told the new Model II will be available in 90 days.  This will be great, two useful tools combined into one unit.  I'm glad I waited to buy one, so now I can get this new unit.

I'm with you, Jon.  

Tiger Bill's drummer's web site has some information on the drumometer www.tigerbill.com

art was this years wfd he got 1100 in a minute

The WFD has a thread on the Pearl Forum with video stuff also.  Click on Hook's first post http://209.25.203.234/showthread.php?t=58346

I'm going for the record with feet. I'm almost there actually if not there now. The record for single strokes is 1031 in 60 sec which is a hair over doing 16ths at 250. I can do em at 270 which would get me way over 1031. I just need to get the drumometer. There is nothing silly about the drumometer. With useing a metronome it is a great teaching tool. Say your doing you 16ths at a comfortable speed to the metronome for one min. If the number doesn't come out the same every time then your slack. So if you don't want the drumometer thats like saying your content with your slackness. Also there is no seperate r and left side. It's just a simple trigger that is used. Man drumometers are currently unavalible right now.

LeftHandFirst was refering to using the metronome along with the Drumometer in order to make sure your playing the correct number of beats.  In other words setting the metronome at 100 bpm and playing 16th notes for a minute will give you 400 beats.  Therefore if the drumometer does not show 400 beats then you know that you need to increase your smoothness or that you sped up or slowed down somewhere and didn't keep perfect tempo.  The drumometer is a tool that is best used along side a metronome.  That is why the drumometer is unavailable as a matter of fact.  They are currently making a new model which will have a metronome built into the model.  

Hippie are you doing 16th notes at 200 bmp?  It get a little bit more difficult when you start pressing up the speed.  Singles at 200bpm is very easy obviously. But Hippie, its not just the accuracy aspect that the drumometer helps you with, but the consistency.  If you were to accidentally buzz any of your strokes the drumometer would pick those extra strokes up and give you a score higher than what you should have gotten.  If your dynamics were a bit sloppy the drumometer would not pick up some of your strokes and therefore give you a smaller score than you would expect.  

One of the drumometer's main purposes though it to let you blaze away as fast as you can with or without reference to a metronome and it would tell you how many strokes you accomplished in a set amount of time.  The fact that you get a score, makes it similar to a video game an thus making you want to get a higher score.  It's a tool that can offer incentive to get faster.  

Whether you see this tool as relatively useful as a pooper scooper or a swiss army knife is up to each individual.

Hippie, since you obviously beleive that you can do without a drumometer then it does not benefit you to state this opinion.  I really do believe you when you say that you can do without the help of a "machine to tell you".  Your obviously a skilled drummer.  Thank you for you opinion, however,  I created this thread for those who either own one themselves, or who are interested in it.