Kid Lenin
12-06-2007, 11:33 AM
So let me paint a picture for you all: Last weekend, a friend and I are at Best Buy, staring down the three X-Box 360 copies of Rock Band sitting in the aisle. So expensive, but DO WANT... At any rate, we each cave in and pick up a package-- we would've only bought one, but, of course, we needed two guitars. Easy enough.
So we go to his place and he sets up his guitar, mic, and drums, connecting them all to the 360. I notice that for the top of the drumset (the actual drum sensors), he has to peel off three cardboard pieces that are wrapped around the area between drums. Before long, he's set up, and we're rocking out.
The next afternoon, I stumble through my hangover and flop on my couch to start putting together my own drumset. When I pull it out, though, I find no cardboard between drums. Instead, I find a small, flat piece of cardboard inserted between the top and bottom of the green and red (far right and far left, respectively) drum sensors. This seemed weird to me.
Now when I play drums, I infrequently feel like the drums aren't reading appropriately. However, I'm not sure if I'm overly worried/looking for problems (my guitar's strum bar stopped working within 24 hours of purchase) or if it really is an issue with my drums. Some songs on Easy I'll do fine on, getting anywhere from 80-99%, with any errors definitely being my fault. However, some songs I'll be confident that I'm hitting the right drums at the right time, but I'll wind up with a score in the 60% mark. It seems to either come and go, or be associated only with certain songs. I haven't been able to pinpoint it, yet. It also seems to me that my red, yellow, and green pads seem to be the most likely to miss, as I almost never miss a beat on my blue pad.
Anyway, that's why I came here to make this thread-- I remembered how oddly my drums were packaged, and I wondered if that was normal or if it was wrong. After all, my friend and I picked up our copies of Rock Band for the same system at exactly the same time from the same Best Buy, so a difference like this could be meaningful. I hope.
To clarify the difference in how things were packaged, consider this thrilling artwork:
O\O|O/O - My friend's set, with the \, |, and / representing pieces of cardboard wrapped around the base of the drumset, but not actually inserted into the drums themselves.
<O O O O> - My set, with two pieces of cardboard stuck horizontally into the space between the drumpad and what I assume is the 'sensor.'
So we go to his place and he sets up his guitar, mic, and drums, connecting them all to the 360. I notice that for the top of the drumset (the actual drum sensors), he has to peel off three cardboard pieces that are wrapped around the area between drums. Before long, he's set up, and we're rocking out.
The next afternoon, I stumble through my hangover and flop on my couch to start putting together my own drumset. When I pull it out, though, I find no cardboard between drums. Instead, I find a small, flat piece of cardboard inserted between the top and bottom of the green and red (far right and far left, respectively) drum sensors. This seemed weird to me.
Now when I play drums, I infrequently feel like the drums aren't reading appropriately. However, I'm not sure if I'm overly worried/looking for problems (my guitar's strum bar stopped working within 24 hours of purchase) or if it really is an issue with my drums. Some songs on Easy I'll do fine on, getting anywhere from 80-99%, with any errors definitely being my fault. However, some songs I'll be confident that I'm hitting the right drums at the right time, but I'll wind up with a score in the 60% mark. It seems to either come and go, or be associated only with certain songs. I haven't been able to pinpoint it, yet. It also seems to me that my red, yellow, and green pads seem to be the most likely to miss, as I almost never miss a beat on my blue pad.
Anyway, that's why I came here to make this thread-- I remembered how oddly my drums were packaged, and I wondered if that was normal or if it was wrong. After all, my friend and I picked up our copies of Rock Band for the same system at exactly the same time from the same Best Buy, so a difference like this could be meaningful. I hope.
To clarify the difference in how things were packaged, consider this thrilling artwork:
O\O|O/O - My friend's set, with the \, |, and / representing pieces of cardboard wrapped around the base of the drumset, but not actually inserted into the drums themselves.
<O O O O> - My set, with two pieces of cardboard stuck horizontally into the space between the drumpad and what I assume is the 'sensor.'
