anyone have a way to protect the drum pads?

[SomeDevil]

Ok, so i broke my first set of drums and had to buy a compleate kit(another 180) im guessing cause i bang on my drumms like an animal.............. but now that im pretty good at them, i realize theres really no need to whale on em, but there drums right? so why cant i? my first set broke by me puttin a dent, kinda like a hole in em, not goin through the rubber itself, but you can see the dent in them. had anyone returned a drum set to ROCKBAND? and if so, how? ANYWAY, MY QUESTION IS DID ANYONE COME UP WITH A HOME-MADE SOMETHIN TO PROTECT THE PADS THEMSELVES? PLEASE HELP!

[Doc]

How did they break? I mean unless you are stabbing them with your sticks you have to be hitting so hard it might even be considered "showing off" or "recklessness". There really isn't much to protect them from someone who just wants to hit stuff really too hard.

[SSPWOLF]

Ok, so i broke my first set of drums and had to buy a compleate kit(another 180) im guessing cause i bang on my drumms like an animal.............. but now that im pretty good at them, i realize theres really no need to whale on em, but there drums right? so why cant i? my first set broke by me puttin a dent, kinda like a hole in em, not goin through the rubber itself, but you can see the dent in them. had anyone returned a drum set to ROCKBAND? and if so, how? ANYWAY, MY QUESTION IS DID ANYONE COME UP WITH A HOME-MADE SOMETHIN TO PROTECT THE PADS THEMSELVES? PLEASE HELP!

I can understand breaking the plastic foot pedal....

But if you broke the actual pads, I'm lead to believe your play style is fundamentally flawed.

The pads are much sturdier than your average drum head (drum head being the part on a real drum that you hit with the stick to make the noise) and, while it's not UNCOMMON for drummers to break thier drum heads, it's also not something that you'd expect to happen OFTEN.

I suppose the way to protect them would be to not play like you are TRYING to break them...

It's definitely FUN to wild out and go nuts on the drumset... but, if someone were to play like Animal from the muppets on my Roland V-Drums I'd certainly ensure they were never afforded the opportunity to do so again.

[Conner_Malvecino]

I can understand breaking the plastic foot pedal....

But if you broke the actual pads, I'm lead to believe your play style is fundamentally flawed.
I disagree here...and is fundamentally flawed on a drumpad that was just released a month ago? Was there a book released on '30 fundamental rudiments and technique for the Rock Band drum pad?"

My 'snare drum' pad has now cracked in two places unfortunately. I'm NOT a very strong dude nor do I drum like an animal and now I have this same problem. With 10+ years of rock drumming experience, I'm just hitting the snare pad like any rocker would...with conviction and authority. ...if you examine the drum pad unit, you'll see right under the rubbery skin, is a thin sheet of plastic. After, hitting the same pad in the same place over and over again, I'm not surprised that that sheet of plastic's integrity is compromised.

Yeh, I myself have to accept the consequences of not adjusting to playing on a plastic 'toy'. I think most of us now understand how Keith Moon felt :) I just hope that some day they'll have the "Keith Moon" RB drum series...heavy duty rock solid for the real rock drummer in us!

[SSPWOLF]

Just an idea here.. but, checking out my set...

I've played pretty much exactly as I would my real set, and I've played drums in a death metal band before. (Not that I'm insinuating that I bang like crazy, I've always had a fairly light touch on the drums... BUT.. one does have to play pretty loud to appease your bandmates when playing hardcore music)

Maybe it has something to do with environmental effects. I'm looking at this plastic and it seems like a material that could suffer from dry-rot type effects. ie: If whomever manufactured them stored them somewhere extremely dry, etc.

Maybe I'm way outta left field on this one, but I just can't imagine my drums breaking through normal wear and tear... but I don't discount the credibility of those of you who are saying yours did.

I'm just lead to believe, logically, that if your kit breaks and it's not your fault through playing "normally" there has to be some sort of external force besides:

a) You playing like you are nuts
b) The kit being flawed by design.

as...

a) you say you aren't playing like nuts
b) I've played for 21 years and am playing what I'd consider "normal" and I don't see any chance of my kit breaking through normal use.

[LiveWire008]

Neither did I see any chance of breaking my drums from normal use... but today it happened. My Yellow pad cracked. I do NOT play hard, I play from the wrist and not my elbow, I can't physically even put that much power behind the stroke and here I am with a busted drum pad little more than a month after release. I have played drums for 16 years and have only personally broken 3 drum heads in all that time.

[Tender-Surrender]

How the heck did you break the drums? Mine seem indestructable. I have knocked em over hit em really hard, elbow dropped them, stabbed them, and ran over them with a car. They are still going strong.

[DasKonstruct]

check out the mod in my sig, it provides a lot of protection and sound reduction to the drum pads.

[SSPWOLF]

update, I dented the hell out of my yellow pad. It's like.. well, it's a dent. No other way to explain it.

Was definitely playing "normally" when it happened too.

Then again, the first thing I said was "cool! I rock!" and I kept on playing.

Sure it won't be long before it cracks or something... ah well, fun stuff.

[cuddie]

Wolf, thats what I did when i first witness the crack/dent. Then it got worse until eventually the pad stopped responding and I had to RMA it (which was suprisingly, on time. I applied for express on friday and received the pads on wednesday [due to Christmas]).

My advice: ask for a replacement now.

[strebalicious]

Abstinence is the best form of protection.

At any rate, I bang on my drums pretty hard. Much more than most because we had a pretty loud system set up at work and people in the other room could tell when I was drumming. I don't see any sort of damage or structural flaws on them yet.

[whittibo]

Check out the thread in my signature line. There are some who have bought these are are using them, the hope is that it protects the drums from breaking but it DOES silence them during use and gives more of a rebound effect to the drums.

The place will re-open tomorrow and there are some questions we're going to be asking... but it might be a good option to protect your drums in the future. I ordered a set just to be pro-active. And then I bought the extended warranty from Walmart, so even if we do break them, now I can get a replacement quickly, but still don't WANT to go through all that if we don't have to.