Topic: My drum kit is broken! (Read 9846 times)

Emaline · « **on:** 07 Jun 2008, 23:31 »

I'm all kinds of sad over this. My rock band drumkit is dead. The green button has pretty much lost its sensitivity.

McTaggart · « **Reply #1 on:** 08 Jun 2008, 01:33 »

Rip it open and try to fix it! Worst case scenario you break it even more!

clockworkjames · « **Reply #2 on:** 08 Jun 2008, 10:30 »

You work in a game shop no? Sneak it in and change it!

Emaline · « **Reply #3 on:** 08 Jun 2008, 15:46 »

I have already tried to take it apart and fix it. Basically, I think at this point I need to get some soldering stuff, and strip the wire a little and put it back on the silver disc. But I'm not sure where in town I'm going to be able to find that stuff. I'm also terribly scared of ruining it forever.

James, though it may be hard to see at times, I do have some sort of values, and morals. Especially when it comes to video games, and their hardware. I could never do that.

Symptom · « **Reply #4 on:** 08 Jun 2008, 17:03 »

Can you get a replacement for it? Is it still under the EA warranty?

I heard a lot of people have had problems with their drum kits.. They may have some sort of extended warranty?
If not, these guys seem to have had the same problem as you: Link

I hope this never happens to me!

Best of luck to you

B.C. · « **Reply #5 on:** 09 Jun 2008, 01:36 »

EA replaces all broken equipment free of charge (unless you want your new equipment really fast)

http://support.ea.com/cgi-bin/ea.cfg/php/enduser/rockband.php

I think ripping it open and fiddling around inside it might have voided your warranty though.

dennis · « **Reply #6 on:** 09 Jun 2008, 14:51 »

You can buy soldering equipment at a Radioshack (or whatever the equivalent is in your country...since you have had Rock Band long enough to break it, I assume you're in the US). A basic soldering iron will cost $7-15 and a couple of feet of rosin-core solder is cheap, like $1. If you ain't soldered before, the trick it to heat up both parts before soldering. Soldering to cold metal will give you a brittle joint and it'll just break off again. Of course, be careful you don't melt anything else in there. It's usually sufficient to apply the side of the tip of the iron for a few seconds before joining.

Oh, and tin the tip of the iron (get it hot and then melt a little solder over it).

Practice on something else (a broken device or something) before trying it on your drum kit.

And be sure to ventilate.

clockworkjames · « **Reply #7 on:** 09 Jun 2008, 21:40 »

Quote from: Emaline on 08 Jun 2008, 15:46

James, though it may be hard to see at times, I do have some sort of values, and morals. Especially when it comes to video games, and their hardware. I could never do that.

I was not questioning or testing your integrity, I was saying you could either take it back to the shop under warranty or switch it and send back the borked one saying it was returned by a customer, which you are. A customer.

No lies, no foul play, and you get new drums!

I just know in the UK the line between wear and tear/accidental damage/manufacturing fault and your 12 month warranty is a grey area.

pilsner · « **Reply #8 on:** 10 Jun 2008, 20:53 »

It's time for everyone who owns the Rock Band drum to take stock and admit to themselves that that fucker is going to break. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But some day. It may be the pedal, the heads, or it may transcend this earthly plane in a burst of gamma rays, but it will break.

Trollstormur · « **Reply #9 on:** 11 Jun 2008, 23:35 »

my heads are fine so far (as far as i can tell,) but the pedal snapped in half not too long ago. i got a couple replacement ones for free. (i'm pretty sure I'm outside my warranty.)

dennis · « **Reply #10 on:** 15 Jun 2008, 13:28 »

I have a launch day Rock Band set that I've played extensively and my drums are fine. I thought for a while that my red drum was going to snap off but it turns out the hairline crack I thought I saw was actually just a mold line.

I guess, though, with the replacement guarantee from EA and the availability of standalone drum sets, I'm pretty much covered until Rock Band 2.

My guitar though was kind of crappy from the start: wonky strum bar hits and bad tilt sensor.

pilsner · « **Reply #11 on:** 17 Jun 2008, 07:04 »

I know maybe 5 other people who purchased Rock Band at launch, and every one of us has a crappy tilt sensor on the guitar. I think the general sentiment is that Harmonix doesn't care because most people end up pressing the select button anyway.

dennis · « **Reply #12 on:** 18 Jun 2008, 01:45 »

i get excited and accidentally press the start button and piss off my bandmates.

CarbonatedWeasel · « **Reply #13 on:** 01 Jul 2008, 23:11 »

My friend bought the Wii version of the game and after about two weeks and regular usage the (supposedly upgraded) drum kit is already failing. Well, not all of it but the bass pedal looks like it is one good step away from being broken in half. Luckily he ordered a metal replacement pedal in anticipation for this happening.

Ozymandias · « **Reply #14 on:** 02 Jul 2008, 09:05 »

Yeah, my 360 pedal broke after a couple of month. We just bought one of those cheap little metal accelerator pedals from Walmart and bolted the two halves back together. Works pretty well:

imagist42 · « **Reply #15 on:** 02 Jul 2008, 09:48 »

The pedal on the set we had in my dorm snapped something at the hinge, close to the base. It still went up and down fairly well, but the game wouldn't recognize any input so we had to order a free replacement. By the end of the year it was close to going out, but it was mostly just my roommate and me playing by then and we're both calm enough players that it probably would have lasted quite a while under our care.

The pads, though, were another story. Some of the idiots we let play hit the red and yellow (since, you know, those are the most common notes on easy and they weren't coordinated enough to play anything harder) so hard they might as well have pounded their fists, and now something with the sensor on those two is touchy so it can't recognize quick drum rolls any more. This wouldn't be a problem on the blue or green pads, but red is where all the rolls are.

blaineT · « **Reply #16 on:** 10 Jul 2008, 14:31 »

What songs are you seeing drum rolls on? I have trouble getting enough sensitivity out of my kit to play Outside by Tribe and it just has 1/16 notes on the red pad. Kinda sad considering that I bought the game a few weeks ago.

dennis · « **Reply #17 on:** 11 Jul 2008, 09:01 »

Sock mod for sensitivity problems.

Symptom · « **Reply #18 on:** 14 Jul 2008, 21:25 »

Which sadly only works for QM Drums, sadly..

My EL could use some rebound

dennis · « **Reply #19 on:** 12 Aug 2008, 07:43 »

I bought some self stick foam and felt sheets from a fabric/craft store, used a circle cutter to cut them out, and layered them on my drums and they do a pretty good job of giving some bounce to the sticks and muffling the sound.

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