Personal fitting for drum gear

Your gear should
fit the way you play

Fulkrum learns how you play, what you already own and what you want to change — then checks your gear against you, piece by piece, and tells you what to keep.

  • Sticks
  • Cymbals
  • Snares
  • Pedals

Start with your sticks — the quickest way to see what Fulkrum does. Every answer carries into the rest of your kit.

What Fulkrum fits

Four things,
fitted to you

01Sticks How they feel, move and respond in your hands.
02Cymbals How each one responds to the way you actually play.
03Snare The sound, response and behaviour you want from the drum.
04Pedal The speed, power, control and feel under your foot.

Here’s why fitting matters

A 5A is not
a measurement

One example. The same thing is true of cymbal weight, snare depth and pedal drive — which is why Fulkrum fits those too.

Before anything else

We start with what
you already own

Fulkrum does not exist to sell you replacements. It checks the gear on your kit first. Where something already suits you, it says so and you buy nothing. Where something is working against you, it says why — and what would fit better.

An example of what a checked kit looks like — not a real drummer, and not a recommendation.

Your sticks Vic Firth 5BKeep
Your cymbals Zildjian A CustomKeep
Your snare A 14×5 steel snare Worth trying something else
Your pedal Not recorded Not checked yet

A suggestion is never written onto your kit. What you own and what we would put there stay separate until you say otherwise.

How Fulkrum works

Four steps,
no repetition

  1. 01Start somewhere Your first stick fit takes seven questions.
  2. 02Build your Fulkrum Add the gear you actually use.
  3. 03Check the rest Fit your cymbals, snare and pedal without starting again.
  4. 04Keep it with you Your setups, suggestions and changes stay together.

Everything you tell Fulkrum carries over. You are never asked the same question twice.

Why you can believe it

We don’t sell
drum gear.
That’s the point

No brand pays to rank higher, because no brand pays us at all. Where we link to a shop we may earn a small commission — it never changes what we suggest or the order it appears in, and often what we suggest is that you change nothing.

  • Brand independent
  • Shows its working
  • Commission never changes the ranking
  • Keep what already fits

Start here

Build your
Fulkrum

Seven questions about how you play. We take it from there.

Free, and no account needed to see your first answer.

About the figures. Dimensions are seeded from published figures and general knowledge and are still being checked model by model against each manufacturer's own spec; the reasoning is sound, the third decimal place is provisional until a model is marked verified. Every product page says which of the two it is. Where we link to a retailer we may earn a small commission, which never changes what we suggest or the order it appears in.