THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: chronovore on August 14, 2008, 12:45:29 AM

Title: Rock Band Drum Pedal = POS
Post by: chronovore on August 14, 2008, 12:45:29 AM: Our company Rock Band drum pedal broke during lunch today. Good grief, I am unreasonably bummed for something that should be THIS EASY to fix... why not just make it NOT CRAP to begin with?
Title: Re: Rock Band Drum Pedal = POS
Post by: JustinP on August 14, 2008, 12:46:41 AM: cheap, toy drum set not as durable as the real deal. news at 11.
Title: Re: Rock Band Drum Pedal = POS
Post by: fistfulofmetal on August 14, 2008, 12:52:24 AM: I've had mine since launch, hasn't broke. Then again I don't hammer down on it like a gorilla trying to scare away an enemy.

Still, get some butter knives and duct tape. Create a brace for the thing
Title: Re: Rock Band Drum Pedal = POS
Post by: chronovore on August 14, 2008, 06:22:31 AM: Quote from: fistfulofmetal on August 14, 2008, 12:52:24 AM
Still, get some butter knives and duct tape. Create a brace for the thing

That's a great idea for how to get through the evening, but how do I fix my drum pedal? :-*
(rimshot)
Title: Re: Rock Band Drum Pedal = POS
Post by: disgruntled_jojo on August 14, 2008, 01:41:53 PM: Quote from: chronovore on August 14, 2008, 06:22:31 AM
Quote from: fistfulofmetal on August 14, 2008, 12:52:24 AM
Still, get some butter knives and duct tape. Create a brace for the thing

That's a great idea for how to get through the evening, but how do I fix my drum pedal? :-*
(rimshot)

Highly recommend you employ the duct tape + butter knife method. It can be done on the fly, costs a total of like $3, and lasts for a good long while. It's what I've been using for months now. It's solid and won't break and actually makes the action on the pedal a little better too.

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And FWIW, they did fix this in the RB2 drum set revision. The stock pedal now comes metal-reinforced.
Title: Re: Rock Band Drum Pedal = POS
Post by: demi on August 14, 2008, 02:55:49 PM: GOD DAMN I DIDNT KNOW DEVILDRIVER WAS ON ROCKBAND

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DEVILDRIVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

DEZ :rock

BOUGHT so quick
Title: Re: Rock Band Drum Pedal = POS
Post by: Great Rumbler on August 14, 2008, 04:43:10 PM: I hate the drum pedal even when it does work. Thanks for adding a level of complexity above and beyond any of the other instruments!
Title: Re: Rock Band Drum Pedal = POS
Post by: chronovore on August 15, 2008, 09:22:11 AM: Quote from: Great Rumbler on August 14, 2008, 04:43:10 PM
I hate the drum pedal even when it does work. Thanks for adding a level of complexity above and beyond any of the other instruments!

That's true. I play guitar and my friend drums. He's had significantly less problems moving from Easy to Medium to Hard, as opposed to my klutzy fingers, which are having to re-learn everything on Hard, now that the Orange Button is involved.

This is probably why Konami is not involving the kick pedal until Hard.
Title: Re: Rock Band Drum Pedal = POS
Post by: patrickula on August 15, 2008, 12:33:57 PM: I bought a wood pedal replacement online a while back when mine started showing cracks.
Title: Re: Rock Band Drum Pedal = POS
Post by: Kestastrophe on August 15, 2008, 12:48:51 PM: This is the pedal that I bought on Ebay

(http://galleryplus.ebayimg.com/ws/web/250278730743_1_0_1.jpg)

easy to replace and works great