Rock band drums don't rock as hard as I do

eternalbl

Basically broke one of the drum heads rocking out, the plastic underneath the rubber layer. The question is, does anyone have any opinion regarding the drum heads offered here?

Also, since I found out about that through a 360 site of some sort, and it doesn't mention - are the drum kits between ps3 and 360 the same, or similar enough that those would work for my ps3?

Descendant X

I have a friend who replaced all the plastic drum heads on his set with .22 gauge sheet metal after he did the same thing. It makes the drums nearly silent and you can beat the ever-loving shit out of them without worry. Perhaps you could give that a try?

Forbe!

The 'drum sensor' is simply a piezo element with a hook up to attach to the console.

You could just use the piezo element from your original set and just build a new, more durable drumming surface.

flatlinegraphics

how crazy do you want to go?
http://edrums.info/rock_band.htm

plus side, you can swap out the controller with a drum brain and have a 'real' set.

eternalbl

flatlinegraphics wrote: »

how crazy do you want to go?
http://edrums.info/rock_band.htm

plus side, you can swap out the controller with a drum brain and have a 'real' set.

Actually came across that at the same time as finding the replacement pads. I guess I could hold off until spring, the drums all work fine, but the fact that its cracked still bothers me. I hate how loud they are too, so building that would fix that problem too.

acidlacedpenguin

for the record that shop is charging like a million percent mark up. you should be able to get the piezo sensors for less than a dollar each.

you'd also pay much less if you were to buy a strip of sheet metal and fabricate new drum heads yourself, it's really very easy. The thing with new plastic drum heads is that you'll just beat the hell out of them and break them again and again.

acidlacedpenguin

don't mean to double post but jail doesn't provide editing facilities. Anyway, you're right to be worried about the crack, it will only get bigger and bigger until the drum just starts dropping hits. I'm on my second set of drums ( our rock band drummer is extremely heavy handed) and by the end of the first set, the red and yellow were absolutely shattered into a million pieces, the yellow drum on the new set is cracked down the center.

Another option is to go to the nearest musical instrument store and buy 6" remo practice pads (they're like $12 cdn each) and it's simply: Open practice pad, tape rock band piezo sensor to the inside of the pad, stick the wire through the cymbal stand hole, then plug into rockband controller.

I've already tested it on one of my practice pads and it works quite well, and those pads are designed specifically to be hit a million times with the heaviest drum sticks ever known to man.