Nix
11-29-2007, 12:23 PM
First off i am a drummer and have been playing for about 7 years now and i am a very aggressive player and used to play in a metal band, went through a pair of sticks a week yata yata yata.
Anyways, i managed to break the pedal in the first 3 hours of playing the game. I even made a mental note as i was playing that the piece of plastic was very flimsy and i should probably make note of my foot technique, but disregarded it and put all my faith in the construction of the pedal.
Now, i am a man who swears by his roll of duct tape. And upon breaking it i simply wrapped the cracked spot of the board in duct tape effectively making a second hinge half way up the board resulting in what could be considered a "mini-pedal" this was fine and dandy for the first few hours, but upon inspection, i realized that the spring in the pedal is some sort of spawn of satan and was stretching my duct tape causing me to re-wrap the pedal every few hours of gameplay.
I was going to do what many people have done and simply resupport the footboard with a piece of sheet metal or something similar, but after reading a post about the mechanics of the pedal (thankyou whoever it was) i came up with a pretty brilliant idea once i mustered up the courage to gut the pedal.
All you need is any real Drum set pedal, a bass drum practice pad (cheapest of which ive seen run about $50) and some duct tape.
And here it is, the most expensive rock band pedal to date (i accept any challenges =P)
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6858/pb290069bb9.jpg
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/479/pb290070tv6.jpg
close up you see all it is is the computer switchy thing taped to the floorboard of the pedal, and the round magnet taped to the bottom of the footpedal very similar to how the actual RB pedal is designed.
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/386/pb290071sa0.jpg
(yea it is a double pedal, just with the other pedal and cross bar unattached. if i can get ahold of another RB pedal, i would love to use a headphone splitter to rig up a double pedal controller, if Harmonix throws out some songs with double bass :D )
Anyways, i managed to break the pedal in the first 3 hours of playing the game. I even made a mental note as i was playing that the piece of plastic was very flimsy and i should probably make note of my foot technique, but disregarded it and put all my faith in the construction of the pedal.
Now, i am a man who swears by his roll of duct tape. And upon breaking it i simply wrapped the cracked spot of the board in duct tape effectively making a second hinge half way up the board resulting in what could be considered a "mini-pedal" this was fine and dandy for the first few hours, but upon inspection, i realized that the spring in the pedal is some sort of spawn of satan and was stretching my duct tape causing me to re-wrap the pedal every few hours of gameplay.
I was going to do what many people have done and simply resupport the footboard with a piece of sheet metal or something similar, but after reading a post about the mechanics of the pedal (thankyou whoever it was) i came up with a pretty brilliant idea once i mustered up the courage to gut the pedal.
All you need is any real Drum set pedal, a bass drum practice pad (cheapest of which ive seen run about $50) and some duct tape.
And here it is, the most expensive rock band pedal to date (i accept any challenges =P)
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/6858/pb290069bb9.jpg
http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/479/pb290070tv6.jpg
close up you see all it is is the computer switchy thing taped to the floorboard of the pedal, and the round magnet taped to the bottom of the footpedal very similar to how the actual RB pedal is designed.
http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/386/pb290071sa0.jpg
(yea it is a double pedal, just with the other pedal and cross bar unattached. if i can get ahold of another RB pedal, i would love to use a headphone splitter to rig up a double pedal controller, if Harmonix throws out some songs with double bass :D )
