Double bass pedal making unwanted buzz role sounds.. help?

Hey, so I got a double bass pedal for christmas and I'm really enjoying it so far, but about two weeks after I got it I started hearing a triplet/buzzrole style repeted flap of the bass drum when I do double bass rhythums..

Anyone know why this might be? It's a BigDog double pedal, single chain with the spring tension set pretty tight, and the drum is also tuned fairly tightly, stock skins, very old, bad condition skins on all the kit.

It sounds like you are digging the beater into the batter head. In which case it's you not the pedal. You need to work on you technique so that you don't rest the beater against the head.

Are you certain the chain's not touching the head?

Just do what you are doing when the sound happens, really slow, and watch it. May be going back to far on the pedal, causing a heel toe effect, that's how you get a double triple and buzz roll with a single kick, you may be doing that and not realizing it.

Let your beaters rebound. You're burying them (keeping them pressed up against the head instead of letting them bounce back to full swing). You'll get a much fuller bass sound when you allow for rebound. Funny that it takes some people a second beater to realize they're doing this - it did for me.

Oh.. Yeah I thought it was me, not the pedal. Brand new piece of kit afterall. it only does it sometimes, odly aruund 80/100 bpm sxteenths.

How can I make it rebound more and not bury the beater against the head?

My feet when playing usually have my toes just concealing the big dog face, sometimes with a tiny bit of ear sticking out, though sometimes I go further back to help if I'm going faster speeds.

Pick your feet up. Or put your heel down. Or back off enough that the leverage of the pedals out-muscle your feet. You've got options.

Hmmm. Do you mean have my heels flat on the back of the pedal and do an ankle motion? I have my heels up, toes down, 30 degree angle upwards on my heels and I push down with my heel to push the pedal down, I don't feel like I've done anything wrong.

Though I did play around with my feet trying different things, It's not as easy to go fast but the buzz rolling's gone.

Managed to get rid of the flappy buzz role thing, thanks for the advice guys.