We have had a ton of good responses for rock band drum pads as well as replacement drum kit sensors. That being said, we are having a sale for the holidays to see how people respond.
Here are the prices:
Rock Band Drum Silencers - Set of 4 - $10
Rock Band Drum Kit Replacement Sensors -
Plug and Play
$35 for a set 4
$19 for a set 2
$10 for 1
Quick Crimp
$20 for a set of 4
$11 for a set of 2
$6 for 1
These are the cheapest prices anywhere, we only make $1 per set drum pads so buy them while you can!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Drum Pads Now Available
We are now offering Drum Pads for Rock Band Drum Kits. The pads are 1/8 closed cell neoprene and great for getting rid of the wacking sound every time you hit a pad. We will start selling at $15 for a set and see how they sell.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Drum Pads Coming Soon
After doing some research, we have decided to sell drum pads as well as sensors. Drum Pads will be closed cell neoprene with adhesive backing, and will sell in 4 packs for $15.
Monday, August 4, 2008
2nd Round Winner
Congratulations to the 2nd round winner Ivan P. from Phoenix, AZ. Both winners recieved visa gift cards. Our sale is now over for July, but keep checking back for special offers and new products.
We will be offering drum silencers soon too.
We will be offering drum silencers soon too.
Friday, August 1, 2008
www.360-hq.com Replacement Drum Sensor Review
Joel at www.360-hq.com did a review of our drum sensors. Its nice to have an official review, and thankfully its nothing but praise. We have been selling sensors like hot cakes lately, and we appreciate all our customers. We just ending our July Sale / contest, and will be posting the 2nd round winner soon.
Check out the review here.
http://www.360-hq.com/article-2780--0-0.html%20
Check out the review here.
http://www.360-hq.com/article-2780--0-0.html%20
Thursday, July 24, 2008
1st Round Winner
Congratulations to Rob P. from Gloucester, VA who purchased a 4 pack of quick connect sensors and won a $50 Visa Gift Card.
The next winner will be picked on July 31st. You dont have to purchase to enter, just send us an email. Contest Rules are here!
http://www.rockingrepair.com/contestrules.html
Happy Xmas in July
-Lando
The next winner will be picked on July 31st. You dont have to purchase to enter, just send us an email. Contest Rules are here!
http://www.rockingrepair.com/contestrules.html
Happy Xmas in July
-Lando
Friday, July 18, 2008
XMAS in July Sale
Due to a lot of help from the folks on the scorehero forums as well as our customers, we decided to have an xmas in July Sale. $10 of a 4 pack, $5 off a 2 pack. We are also giving away 2 $50 Visa Gift Cards to people who purchase between the 18th and 31st of July. You can also enter just by emailing us. Official contest rules are here.
http://www.rockingrepair.com/contestrules.html
-Lando
http://www.rockingrepair.com/contestrules.html
-Lando
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Rock Band Rigid Drum Head Concept
Since I have been posting, a lot of people have been asking what we have been working on. Well Here are some pictures. I am sure we will go through multiple revisions of this drum head before we are done, so consider this a very rough draft. For all you hackers out there, this is a beta release. We made this concept out of some extra materials we had lying around our lab (mostly acrylic) just to make sure our mounting points and measurements were within tolerances.
We reused the drum rubber mounts from the EL kit for now. We would like to make something that requires not using any of the original drum head parts, but we are finding it difficult to do that while still making the price reasonable. If we were to fine tune what we had right now and sell it, everyone would be looking at around $125-$150 a set including sensors. Obviously, we would like to drop that drastically.
What you are looking at is basically what our test drum heads are going to look like (with some minor changes here and there. We wont be using the crappy rubber top we have now, dont worry). We are going to be using different materials, plastics as well as composites, and different thicknesses of those materials. We will also be experimenting with different sensors as well as both neoprene and gum rubber tops.
One thing that we will be testing other than sensitivity is durability. I will most likely be sending these out to the community, to expert and novice drummers, and encouraging them to see if they can break them while playing. Thats not for awhile, so be patient. Some key changes that you may notice in this initial concept are:
- Enclosed drum sensor housing
- Thicker drum head
- Sturdier rubber mount housing
- Improved overall durability
What we will be improving on further:
- Rubber mounts that do not involve reusing original compenents.
- Flatter top (obviously. Thats an easy fix though)
- Much Lower Cost
- Better drumming responses: eg, higher sensitivity, better rolls
- Gum Rubber/Neoprene tops to improve both noise and performance
We reused the drum rubber mounts from the EL kit for now. We would like to make something that requires not using any of the original drum head parts, but we are finding it difficult to do that while still making the price reasonable. If we were to fine tune what we had right now and sell it, everyone would be looking at around $125-$150 a set including sensors. Obviously, we would like to drop that drastically.
What you are looking at is basically what our test drum heads are going to look like (with some minor changes here and there. We wont be using the crappy rubber top we have now, dont worry). We are going to be using different materials, plastics as well as composites, and different thicknesses of those materials. We will also be experimenting with different sensors as well as both neoprene and gum rubber tops.
One thing that we will be testing other than sensitivity is durability. I will most likely be sending these out to the community, to expert and novice drummers, and encouraging them to see if they can break them while playing. Thats not for awhile, so be patient. Some key changes that you may notice in this initial concept are:
- Enclosed drum sensor housing
- Thicker drum head
- Sturdier rubber mount housing
- Improved overall durability
What we will be improving on further:
- Rubber mounts that do not involve reusing original compenents.
- Flatter top (obviously. Thats an easy fix though)
- Much Lower Cost
- Better drumming responses: eg, higher sensitivity, better rolls
- Gum Rubber/Neoprene tops to improve both noise and performance
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Now Shipping Internationally
Thanks to popular demand in foreign countries, we are now shipping internationally. $10 to UK, $7.50 to Canada, and $25 to elsewhere at the moment.
Thanks to all our overseas buyers for inquiring!
-lando
Thanks to all our overseas buyers for inquiring!
-lando
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Some Comments About Our Drum Sensors
A lot of people have been emailing us and asking if our drum sensors will improve their kits. Unfortuneately, they wont, and neither will any other products out there. There are many third party vendors that sell upgrades to the drum kit and boast improved performances: gum rubber pads, neoprene pads, etc (we even found another drum sensor seller). We can assure you that none of these products will improve performance from the stock kit. Although the pads will quiet your drums nicely, you will loose some sensitivity. (we use gum rubber and just hit harder!)
So why should you buy from us as opposed to others? We have many years of experience in the electronics industry, and we are dedicated to selling quality materials. We are not Joe Gamer's manufacturing junk in our mom's basement to make a quick buck. Our goal is to make improvements to the kits, not replacements. So stick with us, and watch out for new products
So why should you buy from us as opposed to others? We have many years of experience in the electronics industry, and we are dedicated to selling quality materials. We are not Joe Gamer's manufacturing junk in our mom's basement to make a quick buck. Our goal is to make improvements to the kits, not replacements. So stick with us, and watch out for new products
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
www.RockingRepair.com is Up and Running!
Amist final exams and work, the web site is functional and you can now place orders. The webmaster did a good job, but we will be refining things like art, links, and code as we mature the site, so bare with us. If you have any suggestions or find a dead link, please feel free to email us. Now on to the good stuff!
We have single, dual, and quad (best value) packs to purchase, and we will be mailing them with an instruction pamphlet. Like we said in our previous post, you can get them in either a quick connect or a Skotchlok version. Skotchlok connections are for Rock Band gamers whose sensor plugs are glued into the housing. You can always pick the glue out and go with the quick connects, or leave it glued and go with the Skotchloks. *** We also are selling replacement tape for $5. *** Its a a finer thread than the original and it does a job.
So all I can say is buy our stuff! We do quality work, and if you are unsatisfied, we will either get you a new product or refund your bling. Spread the word, and look our for new products.
We have single, dual, and quad (best value) packs to purchase, and we will be mailing them with an instruction pamphlet. Like we said in our previous post, you can get them in either a quick connect or a Skotchlok version. Skotchlok connections are for Rock Band gamers whose sensor plugs are glued into the housing. You can always pick the glue out and go with the quick connects, or leave it glued and go with the Skotchloks. *** We also are selling replacement tape for $5. *** Its a a finer thread than the original and it does a job.
So all I can say is buy our stuff! We do quality work, and if you are unsatisfied, we will either get you a new product or refund your bling. Spread the word, and look our for new products.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Drum Tester Up and Running
We have implemented in hardware a way to test for missed hits! We soldered some special components to the drum kit circuit board that will allow us to measure when the drum kit sees a hit and when it misses. We then hooked those components up to a dsPIC chip and are able to monitor just about everything going on in the system to within about 1800 nanoseconds. We are going to spend a day or two calibrating the system, and then we can capture data all day long.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
In the Meantime ........
....while our site is getting up to speed, ( Seems like thats how I start off every post. Feel free to yell at our webmaster, I do it all the time! ), we have an idea for a "missed hit" solution. It is most likely going to be a combination of things, but we think we have a strong idea of why people are getting missed hits. More importantly, I think we can fix it. We have captured a bunch of sample data from our scope (about 10,000 points per drum strike) and ran it through some monte carlo simulations in matlab. We were able to recreate a missed hit in matlab, and we have a solution (on a bar napkin at this point). Our next step will be to recreate a missed hit in the hardware, and go from there. To wet your whistle, here are some pretty pictures from our scope of single and double hits (not missed hits).
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Drum Sensor Pictures
While we get our site and advertising up and running, check out the drum sensor pictures. We even upgraded the stock tape ! We will also offer replacement tape for gamers whos tape has wore out.
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