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From: Bunky Entered on: July 28, 2008 9:02 PM
Holy Shit! It's Macgyver-Spider! Hey Zilla, I have an extra pedal if you haven't got your issue worked out yet. They sent me one when I called in for a replacement for my broken green drum pad.
From: Jackzilla Entered on: July 28, 2008 9:15 PM
Holy shit, Batman!  Sweet work, Spider! And Bunky!  I'll take that foot pedal!  I'm borrowing Crockett's right now.  Not only haven't I gotten a replacement after filing for one online, but I can't redo it because it's already been done.  (??)
From: BigFatty Entered on: July 29, 2008 5:15 AM
I am not in the office today because of this: Just a small, 4,000 pound American Bomb from WWII sitting across the street from my office.  It is goes off, it have a killing radius of 300 meters.  They've evacuated people from 1 kilometer.  They find these things once in a while, but this one is certainly a big one!  I will not be surprised if they find more in the area.  My office is between two bridges with a lot of empty land being developed.  In WWII they liked to bomb the F out of the bridges.  Might be more of these babies hiding.  Glad the heavy equipment did not set it off!  Fatty would have been flame broiled.
From: John Entered on: July 29, 2008 7:47 AM
Certainly safer than a Michigan winter in Hungry, Fatty. I hate to be the one to say it, but it might be safer for your family right here in Lowell, just a suggestion. In fact if you want to move into our cool little hood you can get a 2400 sq. ft. home for about 150 g's. Sell the treehouse and move where your friends Zilla and Bells are, that would be full sweet!
From: Ross Entered on: July 29, 2008 7:53 AM
Spider, that is really sweet.  Hopefully it holds up better than the regular foot pedal.  A buddy of mine is a pretty hardcore drummer in Rock Band (his band was #16 last time I talked to him) and he's blown through 5 or 6 drumkits (not just the pedals have broken).  I think he, too, was looking into rolling his own.
From: NickNick Entered on: July 29, 2008 8:31 AM
Holy shit, Fats!  I agree with Johnny.  Hell, I'll even let you move in with us while we're living with Megan's parent's.
From: RobotSpider Entered on: July 29, 2008 1:32 PM
Ross said: Spider, that is really sweet.  Hopefully it holds up better than the regular foot pedal.  A buddy of mine is a pretty hardcore drummer in Rock Band (his band was #16 last time I talked to him) and he's blown through 5 or 6 drumkits (not just the pedals have broken).  I think he, too, was looking into rolling his own.  I also broke my green drum and was able to fix it, but it didn't occur to me at the time to document it.  If you pull the drums all apart, you ultimately get to a little disc, about the size of a quarter.  On my drum, one of the leads came off.  Just re-solder and you're good to go.  I can't believe they would consider this failure rate acceptable.  I know they do cost-benefit analysis, etc. and figure out where they can break even, but even among this small group of people, just about all of us have had at least one piece fail.
From: jeurge Entered on: July 31, 2008 6:18 AM
For the Roche set make that three peices fail if you only count the drums as one kit and don't count two broken heads, the pedal and the drum sticks separately. We have also played the buttons off two guitars. I should say my teenagers have. When the Rock they rock, particularly my oldest son on the drums. He got pretty good for not ever playing the drums for real, but like real drummers likes to wail on them and this equipmnet surely can't handle that.
From: RobotSpider Entered on: July 31, 2008 7:06 AM
jeurge said: He got pretty good for not ever playing the drums for real, but like real drummers likes to wail on them and this equipmnet surely can't handle that. Sticks are the first thing I replaced.  The ones that come with the game are a little rough and hard on the hands (at least, delicate little computer-nerd hands).  Then I got a stool since sitting in a kitchen chair wasn't really cutting it. If they [still] like to wail on the drums, you might want to pick up the Rockband drum silencers.  I got some because the drumming noise is irritating and wakes my son up even though he's upstairs with the door shut.  They deaden the sound a fair bit, but you have to beat 'em like a rented gong (literally) to get them to register a hit.  I played half a song with them and pulled them off.  In fact, if you want mine (or if anyone else does), they're yours.  The adhesive should still be sticky enough or you could use double-sided tape. Also, when I was fixing my green drum, I found that there wasn't enough padding under the drum head so it kind of sagged to one side.  I took some foam from a Pelican hard case (it's cut in a grid so you can customize it for whatever goes in the case) and added some of that to all the drums.  The heads have sort of rubber plugs holding them on.  Just pull carefully and it'll pop off (Mmmmm, Popov...).  Of course, with RB2 in the pipe, you probably won't need these upgrades. Ok, I'll spare you all the rest of my drum-mod shenanigans.  Now I'm off to find some ground effects and under-drum neon...
From: John Entered on: July 31, 2008 9:42 AM
Andrew completed all the songs in expert mode, he was pretty good. His hardcore rocker style was too much for the flimsy drum kit however.
From: The Bone Entered on: July 31, 2008 10:16 AM
John said: Andrew completed all the songs in expert mode, he was pretty good. His hardcore rocker style was too much for the flimsy drum kit however. Ah the proud parent touting the child's prowess on a drum kit.