Drum Pad Cracked?

[davilan3k]

Hey, Sorry if this has been posted already. Has anybody had this happen to their drum pad? I was playing a f'n slow song with the wife then I saw this....WTF?

It is kinda hard to see it, but it's right in the middle of the pad. It still plays, I'm just nervous I'm going to rip it. Think that will covered under warranty?

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[MegaGoo]

Hey, Sorry if this has been posted already. Has anybody had this happen to their drum pad? I was playing a f'n slow song with the wife then I saw this....WTF?

It is kinda hard to see it, but it's right in the middle of the pad. It still plays, I'm just nervous I'm going to rip it. Think that will covered under warranty?

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/davilan3k/th_DSC07962.jpg (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/davilan3k/DSC07962.jpg)
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http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/davilan3k/th_DSC07960.jpg (http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c204/davilan3k/DSC07960.jpg)

that sucks. im sure its covered under warranty though

[Eman311]

Yes it would be covered.

But is that actually crack?? it's so hard to tell.

[SoulScreme]

Dude, you must have been really wailing on that thing.

[davilan3k]

In all honesty, I did when I first got it. Then, when I came to this message board and read
all the horror stories now I can say I am paranoid. When you slighlty press on the crease you can feel where it cracked. I wailed on the red pad a bunch of times and that still held up. :D

[HellishFiend]

I dont think normal wear and tear caused that so it should be covered.

[AddictedtoKaos]

My Yellow cracked too in a few spots. Its just a matter of time that the others will.

[CollegeDropouts]

This wasn't damaged from you hitting it. This already had a crack in it. Most of the yellow pads that are defective have a crack, and that crack will only get bigger. Out of box mine had one, and after playing on it, it was a matter of time before the pad had 0% responsivness. If you don't believe me, hit your red pad AS HARD AS YOU CAN (sitting down with the sticks). Your body won't allow you to do enough force to break the pads. Try it out. Send these back and get a new kit. Sry.

[Xzyliac]

Just be glad it ain't your kick pedal.

[WhySoSerious]

My yellow pad cracked too and the rubber has a tear in it now, and on top of that my blue pad cracked! Around the same spot. I've been playing normal too, not pounding them.

[davilan3k]

:mad: Yeah, My blue pad just started cracking. It is not as bad as the yellow. I want to return them but I don't have the $125 bucks for the deposit right now.:(

[a terrible drummer]

:mad: Yeah, My blue pad just started cracking. It is not as bad as the yellow. I want to return them but I don't have the $125 bucks for the deposit right now.:(

whoa wait what a 125 deposit?
Dear god above D:

[Quinarvy]

Meh, haven't gotten it myself (yet), but my Best Buy's yellow pad had a hole in it.

Yay abuse!

[CENACHAINGANG54]

Dude, you must have been really wailing on that thing.

Ok I have seen several post like this above. I want to remind everyone and the makers IT IS A DRUM SET!! Drums are not meant to be played lightly!! I am a professional drummer and was in a lot of bands including every band there was in high school. I remember my band instructor yelling " DRUMMERS COME ON DRUMMERS LOUDER HIT THE DRUM!" If harmonix/EA wanted us to play the things lightly, then they should have only put in songs with nice slow beats and barred real drummers from playing the game! You do not put songs like Welcome Home, Ride the lightning, Run to the hills ETC if you want something to be played lightly! The CEO is a drummer he should have known this! So as far as I am concerned even if he did wail on them that is what drums are made for and should be replaced under normal wear and tear!

[Frederf]

whoa wait what a 125 deposit?
Dear god above D:

You only need to give a deposit if you want them to ship a replacement to you before you send yours back. If you are willing to ship yours to them and wait for a replacement no deposit is necessary.

[rayps23]

You only need to give a deposit if you want them to ship a replacement to you before you send yours back. If you are willing to ship yours to them and wait for a replacement no deposit is necessary.


hey you missed the part that they send you a box and a label for you to send it back. if you want to put the 125 on a card they send you a new set then give you 28 days for them to receive the broken part. If they do not receive the part the 125 gets charged.

[BearFan51]

Ok I have seen several post like this above. I want to remind everyone and the makers IT IS A DRUM SET!! Drums are not meant to be played lightly!! I am a professional drummer and was in a lot of bands including every band there was in high school. I remember my band instructor yelling " DRUMMERS COME ON DRUMMERS LOUDER HIT THE DRUM!" If harmonix/EA wanted us to play the things lightly, then they should have only put in songs with nice slow beats and barred real drummers from playing the game! You do not put songs like Welcome Home, Ride the lightning, Run to the hills ETC if you want something to be played lightly! The CEO is a drummer he should have known this! So as far as I am concerned even if he did wail on them that is what drums are made for and should be replaced under normal wear and tear!

I hate to be the one to point this out,........they are not real drums. They are thin plastic frisbees with a trigger attached. The pads won't get louder, the harder you play. They break when abused. Common sense, people.

Sure, the pads are a bit flimsy to be pounding on, and there looks to be a weak spot in the center, where the trigger is mounted. But if you are punishing these things, expecting them to be as durable as a real drumset-you're nuts. I've been playing the real thing for 30 years. (professionally and not)

[willplayrockbandforfun]

sadly it will stop working... the one at the best buy closest to me... since i dont get mine till xmas i played it there some and it was the yellow as well im not sure if its a faulty(er) model or what... but it will prolly stop working but it will prolly be under warranty

good luck :D

[BearFan51]

sadly it will stop working... the one at the best buy closest to me... since i dont get mine till xmas i played it there some and it was the yellow as well im not sure if its a faulty(er) model or what... but it will prolly stop working but it will prolly be under warranty

good luck :D

For you guys that don't get to open until xmas, why not find one with a known good date on the box, buy it, and return the one under the tree? (provided it's unopened.)

[willplayrockbandforfun]

well i dont pick mine up till the day before yet already paid and will be held when in... so ill get a fairly up to date model still have a bass pedal mod ready for xmas

[Paradox]

count me as another one with a cracked yellow pad. I didn't know what it was at first but then I looked at it and remembered your pictures and knew it was cracked. i took the head off and sure enough, theres about a 3 inch crack running through the plastic where the sensor is located. Sucks too because I love the drums and no I don't play them excessively hard.

[RogerTarin]

hahaha when i first say this thread guess what i went to do....i just turned everything on and did Green grass and high tides in hard and i seriously beat the sh*t out of all of them as hard as i could and nothing happened, i guess i've got one of the good ones....

[cjkuhlenbeck]

Yeah, happend to me too. When i looked at the cracks they seemed to run along the screw holes for the sensor, so it must've had something to do with weak points. I was going to send it in (but didnt want to wait) so i tried a plexi-glass replacement, but wasn't sensitive enough. In the end i just bought the whole set again :| money is just money right?:p

[Grayshadow]

I noticed that my blue pad was cracked this weekend when I saw a big "dent" in the pad while I was playing. Checked the other pads and my yellow one was also cracked. They still worked for the most part. I finished the solo drum tour on hard and checked the pads again. Red one is cracked now too. Yay.

Anyway, I should have a new set coming from EA eventually. I'm pretty sure the new ones will crack as well, though, so I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions on preemptively reinforcing the pads.

[logicalnoise]

Yeah the dent appeared on my yello pad this weekend too. This was the first problem I had with my unit but EA is replacing it so no worries I guess. I did play pretty aggresively at forst witha few flagrant frustated whip like hits but yeah anyways I'll be more careful with the new ones. The main problem is that teh plastic backing itself is very thin(2-3 mm). I'm guessing the final engineers figured the shockabsorbers would take most of the brunt force but since the backing is so thin it's flexing and slowly cracking and just getting worse. the backing could be twice as thick and still fit in the housing just fine. I tried some plastic welding compund on teh crack and it helped solidify it again but it was still flimsy so I just broke the weld so the reps see the problem easily when i send it back.

[titansrock]

Ok so I have all the screws out of the back of the blue pad and it seem kinda hard to pull apart anything else need to be removed?

[Project_Mercy]

Ok so I have all the screws out of the back of the blue pad and it seem kinda hard to pull apart anything else need to be removed?

This thread is 3 weeks old, and you have 2 already in the tech forum. You need to put everything back together and just RMA it, otherwise they're not going to give you a new one. From what I've seen of your other two threads, your pads are pretty well toast.

The Yellow and Blue pads crack because there's a piece of plastic over the lower bump stop foam, unlike the red and green pad. As a result, it becomes easier for the pad to absorb the energy by flexing the pad head instead of compressing the foam. Enough flexes and it cracks the pad.

It's easily remedied before it breaks by just removing the plastic.

[ahoyhoy]

I'd like to know if anyone was successful in RMA'ing their cracked pad.

Also, in the even that they feel the damage is due more to user abuse rather than manufacturer error, will they simply keep your deposit, or request you send the new set back first?

[JShmazzle]

I'd like to know if anyone was successful in RMA'ing their cracked pad.

Also, in the even that they feel the damage is due more to user abuse rather than manufacturer error, will they simply keep your deposit, or request you send the new set back first?


I had THE EXACT same problem, my yellow pad cracked. The new one should be in tomorrow, I'll see if it gets covered, but I imagine it will. My set was purchased from Best Buy the day it came out for PS3.

[norman_loc]

i created my own set of pads. using the stock pads and some other material anyone want some help with this let me know. i am also on gameFAQs.com