Xbox 360 Drum Rocker Premium Drum Set
The wait is over for the next generation of musical gaming equipment. Whether you are an aspiring amateur, or a practicing professional, Ion’s award-winning Drum Rocker Premium Drum Set for Xbox 360 lets Rockband players finally jam out with ease, letting your inner rockstar come out screaming.
The Ion Drum Rocker Premium Drum set can be customized to fit your drumming style. View larger. |
Professional-grade design allows you to unleash your inner rockstar. View larger. |
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Game Critics Awards Winner
Rockband, which took the gaming world by storm in late 2007, was followed by the highly-anticipated sequel, Rockband 2 that was released in September of 2008. With Rockband 2 came Ion’s Drum Rocker Set, which quickly took the Game Critics Awards top spot in 2008′s Best Peripheral/Hardware category.
Professional-Grade Aluminum Rack and Pads
While other drum controllers force you to use their configuration with a pre-molded, plastic array, the Drum Rocker’s professional-grade aluminum rack lets you position your snare, tom and cymbal pads the way you want. Not only can you play your hi-hat with a right-hand crossover by placing your cymbals anywhere around your kit, but by mounting your pads to the drum rack with the included metal L-arm and clamp system, you can tilt, swivel, raise and lower the cymbals to whatever position you want.
Drum Rocker’s velocity-sensitive drum pads feature an ultra-quiet playing surface and a more natural and consistent stick rebound than your average pad. The pad housing is made of a hi-impact plastic, which means that no matter how much you punish them night after night, they will always be ready for more.
The Drum Rocker’s all-metal kick drum pedal is also designed to take abuse. It offers the perfect amount of tension to replicate the feeling of a real drum pedal. And keeping in line with its set-up flexibility, the kick drum pedal comes with Velcro and retractable spikes, allowing you to place it in the most comfortable position.
Go Beyond Gaming into Real Music
Built by the engineers at Alesis, one of the largest manufacturers of professional electronic drums in the world, the Drum Rocker Premium Drum Set delivers the most realistic drumming experience available to a gamer.
But when you’re ready to move from playing the game to playing in a real life, you can swap the game controller module with one of the professional drum brains made by Alesis, such as their DM5 drum module, or any other drum brain that accepts a quarter-inch output. (Drum modules are sold separately.) And with the option of purchasing a third cymbal, you can round out your kit and move beyond gaming and onto the stage.
The Drum Rocker Premium Drum Set is compatible with both Rockband and Rockband 2 for the Xbox 360.
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What’s in the Box:
Aluminum drum rack, 4 drum pads, 2 cymbals, drum pedal, all mounting hardware and connecting cords, and 2 drumsticks.
User Reviews
4 Stars Semi-Pro Drum Setup
I’ve been banging on this equipment for a few weeks now and I love this set. It blows away the Rock Band 1 drums in almost every category. The pads have great bounce, the kick-pedal is looser than the rock band one so it is easy to double or triple-tap a beat out when needed, and the kit can be repositioned in a variety of way so it is awesome for people of various sizes.
If you have the money and play the music-beat games a few times a week, this is one piece of equipment that is perfect for you.
Setup time took about 40 minutes.
5 Stars Ion Drum rocker worth the dough
Great drum set! Pads have good bounce. setup took under 1 hour. Takes up about twice as much room as normal xbox drums. Very durable and haven’t broken yet.
4 Stars realistic electronic drum kit for rockband
This drum set is awesome! It is more realistic than the original rockband set. It is also more expensive. The original set had no cymbals. This new one has two to start and you can add another. The original base pedal broke as it was made of plastic. The new one is all metal and solid. You must be careful not to over tighten the wing nuts that attach the drums to the stand. One of mine snapped at the weld point Amazon could not replace the broken part nor the single drum but Amazon was very accommodating and was willing to replace the entire set or give a refund. They did give me a $45.00 credit for the inconvenience. That would have paid for a new drum, but I was able to have the piece re-welded and it is holding just fine. I have found that one of the cymbals is not as sensitive as it needs to be and a lot of notes are missed. But, I use the first drum as the cymbal and this works find. Hopefully, the manufacturer will address this at some point. All in all this is a huge improvement over the first drum kit and if you are a serious rockband drummer, this set is a must.
5 Stars Love the set – Might not work with Guitar Hero: World Tour
First, I love this set. It’s been sturdy and reliable so far.
I wanted to note here that it might not work with Guitar Hero World Tour though.
It seems when you hit a cymbal on the ION kit, GH:WT registers it as a hit on that color AND “orange”, thereby counting as a miss-hit and reseting your score multiplier.
I use the Omega pedal, which works great with the set (just needs a 1/8th to 1/4th adapter) though it needs something to be anchored against so it doesn’t creep away from you as you play.
I’ve also found that super-glueing the four feet to the base of the set helps tremendously in stability.
UPDATE: It seems Activision has patched Guitar Hero: World Tour so it now recognizes the Ion Drum Rocker kit properly.
3 Stars Good product, horrible service
The ION Drum Rocker kit is a fabulous drum kit for video games and I would recommend it to everyone who has the money. The only down side is the service from the company who is producing them. I received my pre-order late after being on back order. I still have not received the kick pedal expansion which was part of my pre-order from August 17th, 2008. Every time I contact their support I get the same message, “few more weeks”. I personally would like to just sue them and get it over with. I would not order this product until it was guaranteed in stock because their manufacturer is terrible.
