**OFFICIAL** Rock Band Thread

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: bearxor
If you beat Hard on guitar, it will (thankfully) unlock the medium and easy achievements.

SWEET. thank you

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: bearxor
If you beat Hard on guitar, it will (thankfully) unlock the medium and easy achievements.

SWEET. thank you

CONFIRMED. Yea, that is definitely a sweet feature with RB that should have been a no-brainer. I guess the developers (Harmonix with GH2, included) thought that having the achievements separate would mean more hours of gameplay. But playing on easy and medium is an exercise in mind-numbing torture for someone who can handle hard and expert.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: CKDragon

Originally posted by: Modeps

Originally posted by: bearxor
If you beat Hard on guitar, it will (thankfully) unlock the medium and easy achievements.

SWEET. thank you

CONFIRMED. Yea, that is definitely a sweet feature with RB that should have been a no-brainer. I guess the developers (Harmonix with GH2, included) thought that having the achievements separate would mean more hours of gameplay. But playing on easy and medium is an exercise in mind-numbing torture for someone who can handle hard and expert.

Right, I'm 4/5 starring songs on Hard in Rock Band with the guitar right now. It's tough for sure, but if I was playing Medium or Easy, I'd just be bored.

 

[blurredvision]

I picked up the drum set last night, and played a little bit with the wife. These things are fucking loud as hell. I understand they probably need to be broken in a bit, but has anybody ordered the felt pads from drumshhh.com? If so, how are they?

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I picked up the drum set last night, and played a little bit with the wife. These things are fucking loud as hell. I understand they probably need to be broken in a bit, but has anybody ordered the felt pads from drumshhh.com? If so, how are they?

If you can, I recommend doing it yourself - go to AC Moore or similar craft store and buy 4 self-adhesive foam pads (one red, one blue, one green, and one yellow), and 4 sheets of self-adhesive black felt. I found a multi-pack of foam pads for $4 there that had 6 different colors - I used the white/black ones to practice.

I made circular cutouts in Photoshop with the proper dimensions - I think it's like 6" or so and then a 1/4" smaller for the inner one.

Cut the foam pads to fit exactly in each drum, and then the felt 1/4" smaller in diameter - it leaves a nice colored ring and black center. I've got nothing but compliments for my mod - and I think the black felt looks much better than the gray plastic.

You can also buy one of those $10 circle cutters to make your life a lot easier, but I just used scissors because this wasn't something I wanted to spend $20 on.

 

[dlock13]

Originally posted by: ducci

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I picked up the drum set last night, and played a little bit with the wife. These things are fucking loud as hell. I understand they probably need to be broken in a bit, but has anybody ordered the felt pads from drumshhh.com? If so, how are they?

If you can, I recommend doing it yourself - go to AC Moore or similar craft store and buy 4 self-adhesive foam pads (one red, one blue, one green, and one yellow), and 4 sheets of self-adhesive black felt. I found a multi-pack of foam pads for $4 there that had 6 different colors - I used the white/black ones to practice.

I made circular cutouts in Photoshop with the proper dimensions - I think it's like 6" or so and then a 1/4" smaller for the inner one.

Cut the foam pads to fit exactly in each drum, and then the felt 1/4" smaller in diameter - it leaves a nice colored ring and black center. I've got nothing but compliments for my mod - and I think the black felt looks much better than the gray plastic.

You can also buy one of those $10 circle cutters to make your life a lot easier, but I just used scissors because this wasn't something I wanted to spend $20 on.

I'd like to see a picture of your work. Sounds interesting.

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: dlock13

Originally posted by: ducci

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I picked up the drum set last night, and played a little bit with the wife. These things are fucking loud as hell. I understand they probably need to be broken in a bit, but has anybody ordered the felt pads from drumshhh.com? If so, how are they?

If you can, I recommend doing it yourself - go to AC Moore or similar craft store and buy 4 self-adhesive foam pads (one red, one blue, one green, and one yellow), and 4 sheets of self-adhesive black felt. I found a multi-pack of foam pads for $4 there that had 6 different colors - I used the white/black ones to practice.

I made circular cutouts in Photoshop with the proper dimensions - I think it's like 6" or so and then a 1/4" smaller for the inner one.

Cut the foam pads to fit exactly in each drum, and then the felt 1/4" smaller in diameter - it leaves a nice colored ring and black center. I've got nothing but compliments for my mod - and I think the black felt looks much better than the gray plastic.

You can also buy one of those $10 circle cutters to make your life a lot easier, but I just used scissors because this wasn't something I wanted to spend $20 on.

I'd like to see a picture of your work. Sounds interesting.

I did this as well. Simple, and worked great.

 

[oznerol]

Originally posted by: dlock13

Originally posted by: ducci

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I picked up the drum set last night, and played a little bit with the wife. These things are fucking loud as hell. I understand they probably need to be broken in a bit, but has anybody ordered the felt pads from drumshhh.com? If so, how are they?

If you can, I recommend doing it yourself - go to AC Moore or similar craft store and buy 4 self-adhesive foam pads (one red, one blue, one green, and one yellow), and 4 sheets of self-adhesive black felt. I found a multi-pack of foam pads for $4 there that had 6 different colors - I used the white/black ones to practice.

I made circular cutouts in Photoshop with the proper dimensions - I think it's like 6" or so and then a 1/4" smaller for the inner one.

Cut the foam pads to fit exactly in each drum, and then the felt 1/4" smaller in diameter - it leaves a nice colored ring and black center. I've got nothing but compliments for my mod - and I think the black felt looks much better than the gray plastic.

You can also buy one of those $10 circle cutters to make your life a lot easier, but I just used scissors because this wasn't something I wanted to spend $20 on.

I'd like to see a picture of your work. Sounds interesting.

Freshly taken:

Drum kit mod
Up close

Notice the lack of a bass pedal, as mine has just broke.

 

[abaez]

Yea, there are lots of different things you can do to quiet them. I just went to michaels and bought some 1/4" foam pads and cut them circular-like and put them on.

Thing is that they didn't quiet them down that much. I put on another pad right on top and it was much quieter, but then you had to hit the drum so hard for it to register. I didn't mind but my friend isn't the hard drumming type and we had to remove it. I might just try some cheap-o mouse pads from staples or something.

 

[bearxor]

I did mine the opposite of yours, ducci.

The black piece on mine is larger and is visible on the outer rim while the entire inside is colored.

 

[Modeps]

Please note, Still Alive is coming to Rock Band for one dollar.
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2...-band-dlc-still-alive/

 

[Modeps]

Oh, um... Why is Rock Band's 5.1 audio turned off by default?

 

[RandomFool]

Originally posted by: ducci

Freshly taken:

Drum kit mod
Up close

Notice the lack of a bass pedal, as mine has just broke.

That's sweet I might have to do that myself.

 

[WraithETC]

Originally posted by: Modeps
Oh, um... Why is Rock Band's 5.1 audio turned off by default?

Singing doesnt sync right with DD on.

 

[Dacalo]

I may go with this mod. It seems to work well, a lot of positive responses.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: WraithETC

Originally posted by: Modeps
Oh, um... Why is Rock Band's 5.1 audio turned off by default?

Singing doesnt sync right with DD on.

Thats peculiar, how bad is it? I have not noticed much in terms of voice with it.

 

[WraithETC]

Totally off in my case atleast 2 seconds.

 

[bl4ckfl4g]

It depends on your dolby processor. If it is really good it shouldn't be noticeable. It takes time to process the signal.

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: WraithETC
Totally off in my case atleast 2 seconds.

Wow, there's no delay at all on our system/receiver. I've beaten the vocal tour on hard, so I definitely would have noticed that.

 

[blurredvision]

I've not seen any kind of delay on my end either. Using a Harmon Kardon AV435 (I think?) receiver, it was near top of the line a couple of years ago, so it had better be able to decode a signal quickly .

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: blurredvision
I've not seen any kind of delay on my end either. Using a Harmon Kardon AV435 (I think?) receiver, it was near top of the line a couple of years ago, so it had better be able to decode a signal quickly .

Mine (which has no trouble with this) is just a $400 Yamaha from 4-5 years ago. Nothing special, but it's never let me down and I'm not discriminating enough to notice a difference between its output and higher-end receivers.

 

[maziwanka]

i haven't had trouble with delay in vocals either - mine's the onkyo HTIB i forget exactly which one (7 speaker one for a little while back)

 

[WraithETC]

Maybe its just the ps3 version

 

[gorcorps]

Have you even bothered to calibrate your system through the game? It shouldn't be off near that much.

 

[blurredvision]

I downloaded a few new tunes tonight, and I must say that "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis was fun as hell to play on Expert. It wasn't particularly hard, but the note changes and HO/PO's were really, really fun.

That's one thing I love about this game over Guitar Hero, is that the song selection is much more varied. I'm glad the songs released favor more of a band vibe instead of just being guitar heavy.