Guitar Hero Drum kits can get pretty broken

A brief history video of what I've been through fixing my repeatedly-breaking Guitar Hero drum kit.

In case you haven't noticed, guitar hero drum kits aren't very durable. I've been fixing the snare on and off for about 7 or so times now. The left cymbal broke this week, sort of fixed it now but there's a small chance of double hit, so I swapped with the right cymbal. The kick pedal has undergone more than 10+ sensitivity mods and fixes. One drumstick holder snapped off. There's the usual problem of the whole kit sinking down during gameplay, which I plan on drilling a hole through the stand for, to keep it from collapsing.

But now the actual plastic thing under the rubber pad is split in half on my snare. Which is total lolz. I'm still trying to determine if it will affect gameplay or not, but the snare now sounds more hollow when you hit it, and I might be getting double hits on it rarely. Oh well.

Hey, want to ask me how many times I had to fix my RB kit? Hint: its less than 1. (Kinda. I forgot that I snapped my bass pedal and added a metal plate to reattach it. Ever since then, I've had zero problems, and not like this.)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• guitar hero
• drums
• fix
• broken
• double hit
• do it yourself
• diy

[crazedcharlotte]

I've never had any problems with my GH Drum kit.

Ive had it since GH World Tour and still going strong, everything.

I stopped playing RockBand,because the drum set only lasted me months.

I take care of my stuff, but the drums for RockBand suck to me at least.

First the Drum Stick broke one of them while I was playing, than came the red

symbol then blue and finally yellow, and you can guess what came next, yes the

foot pedal.

GH is much better instrument wise to me ast least.

[kintarooe82]

@crazedcharlotte I'm glad to see you've had a much better experience than I have. I already own two GH World Tour kits and used parts of both to franken-fix and make a sort of decently working one out of them.

My one RB kit for PS2 still stands though, and only had to fix the bass pedal. Let's hope more guys will find the drums more stable like you have.

[qAyyUm]

which one is better? ROCK BAND SET or GUITAR HERO SET? i want to buy.. pls tell me.. thank you

[kintarooe82]

@qAyyUm Right now if you're serious about playing the games just go for Rock Band and play that almost exclusively. Guitar Hero is losing a lot of taste right now and going extremely cheesy with its gameplay and song selection while Rock Band always stays classy and with a ton of downloadable songs.

You won't regret going for Rock Band. Only if you want to play them both will you need the 5 pad drum of Guitar Hero. But Rock Band now has the 3 cymbal expansion so why not get that. Get Rock Band.

[Expl0dingSeal]

Okay so the kick pedal was wired up to the drum kit, i lifted up the drumkit like a dumbass, the the wires just came out of the pedal. I took the thing apart and looks like the 2 wires that came outta the pedal were glued to parts of a coin like thing.

Any way i could fix this?

[kintarooe82]

@Expl0dingSeal Yep, pretty simple really. The "coin" detects vibrations and should be connected to the wires. It has two circles (inside circle and outside) you solder/attach each wire to a circle. Try to guess which wire goes to which circle but sometimes it doesn't matter. (Reverse wires if it didn't work.) Should get you back up and drumming.

[kintarooe82]

@Tripo1iSamson Wow, you must be the most awesomest awesome in the world of awesome world. Great job. You're awesome!

[ultimatrum]

did you play your drums with a hammer ??

:D

[J0eHav0k]

I have this problem with my red blue and green drums and my orange cymbal is fucked to, lucky I use mine to play rock band :) I'm gonna cut 3 bits of industrial strength ply and glue them to the plastic sensors under the ruber! hopefully it still detects hits

[0998luis]

if you play like a monkey obviously your drum gonna broke

[lapanen123]

Me and my friend have been playing gh metallica for a while now and i usually play drums. I play real drums as a hobby and i tend to hit pretty hard. So now the snare have cracked in three different places so we sanded the plastic a little and put some plastic in the bottom and glued it by epoxy. It has worked pretty well. And the wires has come off the sensor about 15 times, too.

[oldcomputer666]

ORION FTW!!!!

[iiLoveJesus94]

you must hit your drum kit as a real one i have 2 and mi drum kit of gh wt is not broken and my other one that comes with the bundle of gh wor havent use it

[purpleflyingmonkeys4]

THESE DRUMS DO SUCK SO BAD! mine broke in 4 different ways, 1 the pedal wire basically dry rotted and then broke and disconnected, then i got a new pedal all together and then it started doing double hits aswell as yours, then my snare also broke in half and i went to glue it back together and the sensor wires came off the sensor so i had to glue those back on and then my stick holders fell into the actual drumset so now when i play i can hear them rattle so now im just gonna buy a whole new set

[BeastClawz]

lol my drumstick holder broke to

[amordeluisito]

METALLICA!!!!!!

[WanaPlayDrums98]

My blue tom gave out and how do i fix it?