Mad Catz Rock Band 3 Wireless Pro Drum and Pro Cymbals Kit

I don't have an xbox or Rock Band, I bought these to convert to cheap practice drum pads to use with a real drum module, ignore this review if that's not your purpose. The four main pads are easy, just colour coded wires leading into the main unit. Fairly straightforward to rip out the circuitboard and rewire the cymbal input socks as outputs for the four drums. Worked straight away with my D4 module. They're well designed to isolate noise and vibration from other pads so there's no crosstalk. Cymbals are a slightly trickier, the plugs are stereo with three wires because one of the wires is a DC supply that powers a little circuit board inside the cymbal that must do some kind of pre-processing, but just rip them out and wire the output cable direct to the wires off the piezo. You will prob need 3.5 > 6.35 mm jack adapters to plug the cables into your module and you're done, they work well. The bass pedal is not so useful… It's an on-off switch, seems to be magnetic ( dry reed switch maybe-). Works well as-is as a hi-hat controller pedal but not as a bass drum trigger. I tried to stick a piezo on it but there's a lot of noise from the pedal mechanism causing false triggers ( it's not designed to be silent since it uses a magnetic trigger). I had a real kick pedal on a pad with a piezo so I used that instead. Build quality is reasonable, the plastic nuts won't really hold it together under brutal conditions, use some duct tape. But it's pretty decent value for $150. Feel is better than a hard rubber pad, but not as good and bouncy as the v-drums mesh head I'm using as a snare, but reasonable for epic tom rolls.

this makes the standard drums feel lame. enhancing the experience by a huge factor. while essentially just a glorified toy, it will make you a believer in your own inner rock god. All I need now is some strobe lights and a smoke machine lol.

I had to import my cymbal kit from the states good to see some one has brought some in

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