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He is 11 years old and has become a very avid drummer. The drum set was new and well worth the money. We received this package very fast. I reccommend this drum set to anyone. Package arrived undamaged and like I said FAST. I was shocked and so was my son. He loves his drum set and he saved his own money to buy this.
Sure I will get many hours of real enjoyment out of this product, couldnt be happier
After about two years, now playing Rock Band 2, I finally decided to really try out the drums. I popped the pad off and found that the sensor was only half screwed on. The fact that this happened on the green drum pad - the pad that's probably used among the least amount in the game - tells you how little use it took to break the wire.June of 2009, I get my third drum set from Amazon. I am an old school Rock Band'er that still has all of the original RB1 instruments - I was also one of the people who had to ship their entire instrument set back one-by-one to EA for all the various issues with their initial production run. Maybe this one will last a little longer. Unfortunately after a week of drumming, the red pad started registering every other hit. For reference, I play mostly on Hard and a couple of easy songs on Expert.
This part was replaced by a third party Rock Pedal, and I've had no problems yet - unfortunately this one single foot pedal cost $75 by its lonesome.Second, the yellow drum pad started to split around the center hole where the sensor lays. Pop the drum pad out this time and found that the soldering point where the wire fed into the drum pad had failed and one of the wires was completely disconnected and broken. Then eventually not at all. Once that area started to crack, the sensor soon followed.Enter: the first drum replacement (April of 2009). However, tightening this screw made everything ok.May of 2009 and the green drum pad started registering hits very sporadically.
After that first initial swap however, my drums worked like a champ for at least a year - mostly because I used the guitar and mic the most, the drums just sat there gathering dust. This meant that the screws were loose from the factory. At first glance, these drums looked exactly the same as my original drums. Well, within about four months of playing the drums, my drums broke.First went the foot pedal - the bridge of the actual pedal just broke right in two. First I was glad that Amazon was selling these RB1 drums - $30 was a heck of a lot nicer than $80-90 for the RB2 wireless ones.
I love them and the fact that you can make it work on a table if need be and easy portability to play at a friends house. Yep, I been beating the living daylights out of these drums and they work great for both Rock Band and Guitar Hero.
It's not a question of "if" but of "when". You can even use socks or felt pads on the drum pads to help the non-responsiveness problem somewhat. Keep in mind when I say this that I am a rabid, rabid Rock Band fan. Also it is not very responsive to fast repeated drum hits, which makes it very frustrating to play on Hard or Expert.If you're a do-it-yourselfer and you don't care about playing well on harder difficulty levels, you can get this set and bolt a metal plate onto the pedal to reinforce it. Otherwise, strongly consider shelling out the extra bucks for the Rock Band 2 X360 Drum Set. But this first iteration of the drumkit was not very good. The pedal, if unmodified, WILL break.
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