Pimp your Rockband 1 Drum Kit

Posted on September 25th, 2008

Feel ripped off that they want you to spend $300 for the RockBand 2 drumset? Or worried that in a couple of years, you’ll have hundreds of plastic drumkits scattered around your house?

Here are some ways to pimp your existing hard-earned Rockband 1 drumkit.

Buy Silencers:

Officially licensed rockband drum silencers

Create your own Silencers:

Buy a real drummer’s seat:
Drum Throne

Add DIY Cymbals:

More details about building your cymbals on scorehero rockband forums

Reinforce/replace that flimsy plastic kick pedal:
Rock Band Bass Pedal Reinforcement - Pedal Metal
Pedal Metal Billet with Hinge

Have a REAL drum pedal? Mod it for use with Rockband:
scorehero rockband forum article

Add ability to use double kick pedals!! (~$25):
OmegaPedal’s Twinrocker

Buy the Ultimate bad-ass heavy-duty pedal, designed for Rockband (~$85):
Omega Pedal

Ok, now get out there and give Lars Ulrich, Neil Peart and Mike Portnoy a run for their money!

EDIT: Steve Streeting has some good tips here too.

Tags: DIY, drumkit, drums, mod, pimp, rockband
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Monome - open music controller

Posted on April 19th, 2008

Monome is a controller kit for electronic music performance, based on open source hardware and protocols. You can build the units yourself, or buy kits from monome.org.

The controllers themselves are basically a grid of backlit rubber buttons that connect to your computer via USB.

Many people use the device to create music with the free MAX/MSP synthesizer software, but it could theoretically be used with any application.

The schematics, parts list, and source code for the 40h unit are here

Tags: DIY, DJ, electronic music, interfacing, kit, MAX/MSP, monome, Music, music performance, open hardware, synthesiser
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