Double bass pedal - position ok?

I tried setting up the iron cobra double pedal but it feels like the pedals are too close together, and also more importantly I can't seem to figure out how to find room for the snare now - it seems to be either a snare, or my left foot, but not both...

Am I completely missing something in how to position everything? Another mystery is after unpacking the new pedal from the plastic case and assembling it, I ended up with this extra linkage on the floor - no idea if it's from the double pedal or from something out of the whole kit 2 days ago, it's mostly chrome but has the same linkage end as on the pedal, as if it's supposed to allow another angled extension between the 2 pedals, except the chrome end doesn't fit anywhere, it's too big of a shaft so I can't piece it with the pedal, and on the Tama site I don't see this linkage either as part of the set up pedal, so I'm confused on that too.

It seems like ideally if I could incorporate this mystery linkage, I may get the separation and angle I need for the double pedal to feel properly spaced, plus have room for the snare.

I'm totally lost.

Help?

Can't you loosen the 4 lugs on top of the rod and extend those out a bit?

Got a picture of the extra part?

If you put one foot of the snare stand so that it's almost under the right-side pedal, then put another foot of the snare stand across from that, it shouldn't quite reach the left-side pedal. If it's too short, then you have something set up wrong. Maybe you need to extend the driveshaft, maybe it's something else.

Since posting, and before reading the replies, I only discovered the drive shaft can be extended - after doing that I ALMOST have JUST minimal room, and can squeeze the snare in an awkward angle, and after realizing the shaft can be extended, I notice that my extra mystery piece is a duplicate of this, and I just realized I think it's supposed to go on the other side (right pedal). This would probably give me the separation and angle I'm looking for.

The way the pedal came, the shaft was fully inserted on the slave side and tightened in place (so I didn't know off hand it could come out), and the master side was directly coupled to the master pedal, so I didn't realize where this extra link went. I'm going to try inserting that extra shaft on the master side and see if it makes more sense.

My pedal didn't come with instructions by the way, in case they're supposed to. I just got the hard case and actual pedal, all in a cardboard box, nothing else....so I've been doing this blindly...

Ah, with the missing link installed....I now have natural foot spacing and alignment, and more than enough snare space.

Thanks for the tips.

now the problem is I don't have room for the hat foot pedal near the slave bass, but that's not Tama's fault, it's the basement wall...I'm packed in the corner for now!

It's rough. A year ago I bought my first guitar amp....3 amps later I bought my first drums....I'm learning

dude, i would have just learned how to play the basics of drums first before i went out and bought a premium double bass pedal that you dont know how to put together....

what kind of kit did you get?

When in his post did he say he was just starting out at drumming?

I got a Rockstar.

Well, I did learn the basics, in a mandatory music high school class in 1988/89

But that's beside the point, yes I have a lot to learn before i can crank out some double bass worthy of the pedal I bought, but I also have premium tastes in certain things/hobbies, so that's why I got it right away! For example I don't go crazy with cars, I don't buy the $1000 cd deck and who knows how much for speakers...I just get an econo car where I pay in 1month what others pay in a week for gas, literally....and my surplus money goes into these sorts of hobbies, these car dudez may go buy a cheap-o drum kit, while I go get the good pedals in the first place.

I guess it's because I know I will grow into the pedal or whatever else, I fully intend to use it because I've wanted a kit for 22 years now. For now, I use it as a single pedal, where I occasionally give the double action a shot, until I get it going.

When I started on guitars a year ago, I started out cheap, I got a cheap guitar (not knowing how to play and not knowing if I'd be any good), I got a real cheap small practice amp, etc...and now a year later I'm on my 2nd guitar and 3rd amp, and several multi Fx units...trying to get the sound I should have bought in the first place... I wanted to try being a bit more intelligent when it came to the drumming, where unlike the uncertainty about guitars, I knew I wanted drums definitely. Also, double bass is one of my attractions to wanting to play, so it's all good.