Yea I guess you could shove this in GHWT and RB thread but its more about the quality and build of the unit.
Im dumping a video of it putting it together now wont be up till probably tommorow though as will take an hour to convert an hour to upload then few hours till decode on the site.
Complete set of pictures
Video will be here of setting up and how it all attaches
Ok I havent switched it on yet as Ive got to plug the interconnects in from each pad (as everything is a seperate interconnect to the brain).
All I can is (censored for your pleasure
) big time on the build quality
If the thing plays as well as how its put together and made Im going to dribble man love all over it. Apart from the pads and cymbals the whole thing is made of metal. It comes with a wingnut key because everything is adjustable. It all comes in seperates and currently took me 2hours slowly doing it all as theirs a heck of a lot of boxes and because its basically a build it yourself drumkit a right fun time.
Its just beautifull and if Id gone back to my original of paying £300 on import for one plus fees before Ion cancelled em way back end of June for international preorders I have to be honest I still wouldnt have been disapointed with the price tag.
Take the arms on left and right for example for green and red you shove the arm support in on the right and attach the basically big chunky allen key supported red pad onto the arm wingnut. Because the base vertical on the left also has its own wingnut this means you can then lower up and down the pad but also move the entire arm in and out and then ontop of that tilt the pad to how you want it. The whole system is like that even the support structure in the middle for the yellow and blue can go up higher and tilted back and forward.
Theirs two metal poles (one short one long) for the big cymbals and again you can twist/turn and rotate to how you want them and adjust the height (blue one has a huge pole with it). The brain just inserts via a big chunky allen key underneat into the middle wingnut support so again you twist it how you want. Again though must stress on this EVERY part is seperate to add so if you dont want 4 pads and just want two and two cymbals off you go.
I dont know who said the pedal was plastic crap but they want their head reading. Again its solid chunky metal. It seems to have less need for pressure on it so should be great for my crap feet. It looks like its a different design as it has a big spring in the middle but what looks like a microswitch device in the centre front so as I said it actually needs less force so should make double easier. It comes with two screws at front either side so you can pretty much bolt it to a surface. Also comes with velcro (to attach not already added) so you can keep it firm on carpet but I cant see that you will need it as its heavier than RB1 but it also has a big rubber strip underneath running across to stop slippage on non carpet (I have wooden floor as trip on carpets and even with a quick test of it not plugged in its not slipped on its own). It doesnt have a support structure to attach to (ie the hooks on RB pedal to a centre support) which was my biggest concern when I opened it but its zero concern now as again its fully metal and unlike RB its not hollow underneat its pure metal encased.
Going to do the connecting next but again everything apart from the brain (what has a USB cable sealed in) is interconnects both ends so theirs no wires to worry about you can just plug from brain to sed red pad. Again this means if you want the left pad to be yellow for some unknown reason you just unplug and shove into yellow socket. Cymbals you get 3 plastic circles of Yellow green and blue to put on the top of the cymbal if you want to remember what they are and theirs one spare (default setup) port on the brain to add another cymbal to for green (but again you can use any combination as nothings set).
All in all very impressive so far and glad Ive put the £90 from the GHWT drumkit to this. This definetly aint a RB/ION cashcow tie in its a proper drumkit that just happens to work with Rock band and now GHWT
Forgot to add the pads are pad sensative so they work on RB2/GHWT for hitting light gives light sound and harder pumping turn that volume down rants from rest of house lol
Video is up currently converting
Im dumping a video of it putting it together now wont be up till probably tommorow though as will take an hour to convert an hour to upload then few hours till decode on the site.
Complete set of pictures
Video will be here of setting up and how it all attaches
Ok I havent switched it on yet as Ive got to plug the interconnects in from each pad (as everything is a seperate interconnect to the brain).
All I can is (censored for your pleasure
) big time on the build quality If the thing plays as well as how its put together and made Im going to dribble man love all over it. Apart from the pads and cymbals the whole thing is made of metal. It comes with a wingnut key because everything is adjustable. It all comes in seperates and currently took me 2hours slowly doing it all as theirs a heck of a lot of boxes and because its basically a build it yourself drumkit a right fun time.
Its just beautifull and if Id gone back to my original of paying £300 on import for one plus fees before Ion cancelled em way back end of June for international preorders I have to be honest I still wouldnt have been disapointed with the price tag.
Take the arms on left and right for example for green and red you shove the arm support in on the right and attach the basically big chunky allen key supported red pad onto the arm wingnut. Because the base vertical on the left also has its own wingnut this means you can then lower up and down the pad but also move the entire arm in and out and then ontop of that tilt the pad to how you want it. The whole system is like that even the support structure in the middle for the yellow and blue can go up higher and tilted back and forward.
Theirs two metal poles (one short one long) for the big cymbals and again you can twist/turn and rotate to how you want them and adjust the height (blue one has a huge pole with it). The brain just inserts via a big chunky allen key underneat into the middle wingnut support so again you twist it how you want. Again though must stress on this EVERY part is seperate to add so if you dont want 4 pads and just want two and two cymbals off you go.
I dont know who said the pedal was plastic crap but they want their head reading. Again its solid chunky metal. It seems to have less need for pressure on it so should be great for my crap feet. It looks like its a different design as it has a big spring in the middle but what looks like a microswitch device in the centre front so as I said it actually needs less force so should make double easier. It comes with two screws at front either side so you can pretty much bolt it to a surface. Also comes with velcro (to attach not already added) so you can keep it firm on carpet but I cant see that you will need it as its heavier than RB1 but it also has a big rubber strip underneath running across to stop slippage on non carpet (I have wooden floor as trip on carpets and even with a quick test of it not plugged in its not slipped on its own). It doesnt have a support structure to attach to (ie the hooks on RB pedal to a centre support) which was my biggest concern when I opened it but its zero concern now as again its fully metal and unlike RB its not hollow underneat its pure metal encased.
Going to do the connecting next but again everything apart from the brain (what has a USB cable sealed in) is interconnects both ends so theirs no wires to worry about you can just plug from brain to sed red pad. Again this means if you want the left pad to be yellow for some unknown reason you just unplug and shove into yellow socket. Cymbals you get 3 plastic circles of Yellow green and blue to put on the top of the cymbal if you want to remember what they are and theirs one spare (default setup) port on the brain to add another cymbal to for green (but again you can use any combination as nothings set).
All in all very impressive so far and glad Ive put the £90 from the GHWT drumkit to this. This definetly aint a RB/ION cashcow tie in its a proper drumkit that just happens to work with Rock band and now GHWT
Forgot to add the pads are pad sensative so they work on RB2/GHWT for hitting light gives light sound and harder pumping turn that volume down rants from rest of house lol
Video is up currently converting
Probably turn up on Monday now.
Phoned up to confirm it would be dispatched today and the guy said yes.
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