Ah, good ‘ol piezoelectric elements..

They’re good fun.

Posted at 5:00 pm on Dec 23rd, 2008 by marz

Nice, finally someone made those things a little better. I hate the design of the guitar hero cymbals. At walmart the other day, I was playing the RockBand drums demo and a kid behind me mentioned “Ugh, the rockband drums are such low quality, the GH ones are much better.” I wanted to drag him over to the GH drums at the other and of the store and show him how wrecked they were.

Posted at 5:07 pm on Dec 23rd, 2008 by Pilotgeek

i haven’t played on gh drums, but the rockband ones are pretty bad imo. but im not a very good drummer, so that might be part of the problem… ;)

Posted at 5:43 pm on Dec 23rd, 2008 by andrew

can he make it so my pinata doesn’t break too?

Posted at 6:32 pm on Dec 23rd, 2008 by daniel

Why not make your own kit that will last beign wailed on and is far quieter.

I got a set of remo practice drum pads and Cymbols and mounted the piezo elements on them.

It rocks, has a REAL drum feel and is way better than the crappy toy they give you with the game.

Posted at 5:29 am on Dec 24th, 2008 by fartface

LOL – what a waste of time. Learn how to play REAL instruments.

Posted at 1:41 pm on Dec 24th, 2008 by VonSkippy

@vonskippy — The drums/vocals are the only ‘true’ instruments in the game :P Playing drums in rb is akin to playing a minimalistic midi set. That said – it could use a little more freestyle feel.

I have 3 sets of drums for the ps3, 2 for rock band 1, the classic wired set – VERY responsive, no cymbals
1 for the ps3 rb2, and its shit. The sensitivity is total crap – you have to WAIL on them to get anything above ‘minimum’ velocity, and lots of sporadic misses. This set is much like the xbox360 set, which *in my opinion* sucks more balls than imaginable.

I can 5* most songs on expert, so I think I have the right to judge which sets are decent.
I want to build some of these plate-cymbals just for look-see :D

Posted at 10:35 am on Dec 25th, 2008 by frollard

Hullo, I’m the guy who wrote the article. Many thanks for your positive comments, I appreciate it. :)

“Why not make your own kit that will last beign wailed on and is far quieter.”

… I’m a step ahead of you – look for the writeup of that project soon!

Oh, and vonskippy, I do play real instruments. Here’s some vid of me and my Les Paul in a battle-of-the-bands grand final: http://www.youtube.com/fnaah

Posted at 2:04 pm on Dec 25th, 2008 by Matt

well, i just got gh4 on my ps2, but not the drums.
i’ve played the drums for 360 and stuff, and as far as i know, they work pretty well, apart from the fact that from left to right on the strike line the colours are as follows:

red-yellow-blue-orange-green

its heaps messed up because the guitar colours from left to right are:

green-red-yellow-blue-orange

anyway the games awesum and i reckon the drum cymbol pad idea rocks lol

Posted at 12:16 am on Jan 18th, 2009 by NuCL3Ar MoNk3y

Otronicon in Orlando had a Rock Band Concert Hall, complete with a real drum set modified for use with Rock Band. Brett Dawson, at the Orlando Science Center, has posted a detailed description of the construction and conversion here:
http://www.otronicon.org/InDash_Display.aspx?PGID=440
more can be seen here:
http://www.myspace.com/osc_otronicon

This is a kick-a$$ drum set with some serious durability. It stood up to five solid days of public play, except during the Halo Wedding, with no signs of slowing down.

-A_Null

Posted at 8:37 pm on Jan 30th, 2009 by A_Null