Rock Band 2 Double Cymbal Expansion Kit

Bought these shortly after Christmas, and upon reading of the horrors of setting them up I found out myself just how heinous a process it is. Even after fighting for over a half-hour for the clamps that hold the cymbal posts to the drum kit to "JUST...SNAP...JUST...SNAP..C'MONNNNNNNN SNAAAP!! GAAAUGH! %&#@!" with and without powertools (one of which never fully did snap 100% together), they worked beautifully, truly adding a new dimension and surprisingly seemed to make drumming a little easier for this non-musician to do-it-up more like a real one. Infatuated, I played for hours everyday for about a week straight before getting distracted from playing for that entire next week after.

The start of having these cymbals for that third week... was every optimistic-cynic's nightmare. Having known about the terrible setup, and still choosing to trudge on. Then experiencing the setup, and still going forward from that. Then experiencing a blissful 7-days of newfound drumming glory... to suddenly having DOUBLE-HIT!??

For no obvious, apparent, or investigative reason, my cymbals started double hitting any moderately-hard hit they registered. Which, if you do your homework, a lot of the disgruntled reports over these cymbals are about. If you just want to play and don't care about your score (and your score multiplier) then you won't care that this seems to be an unfixable and common problem with these.

But I, for one, also am now hanging my head low in mourning of what-was for a beautiful 7-day stretch, and what-could've been with properly designed cymbal accessories.

[PS. Also, feel free to assume that it's just me and my cymbal pack (and dozens of others out there) and trudge onward with your purchase! Best of luck to you, honestly, because they're sadly a great addition.]

***EDIT: On a whim I did some research and looked for "repair rock band 2 cymbals" since my warranty is now long up and figured I can't make mine any worse. Turns out, there IS a somewhat promising fix to these, but get this... after taking it apart to fix the wiring, I found out that one of my cymbals don't even include all of the wiring it should, FANTASTIC!***
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Rock Band Drum Pads - Large White

Rock Band has brought my children faminly and friends together. But the noise from those drums was deafening. We now can play in quiet peace with no adverse effects in game play.

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Xbox 360 Rock Band Portable Drum Kit

Yes, this is an easily portable drum set that works very well, but they've made one aspect of the drums easier to deal with that in turn raises a whole slew of issues. Drums have to be set up in a somewhat specific way to be played easily so unless you have a table that's long enough to place all the pads on tall enough to comfortably play the pads on and light enough to easily move into position then you're going to have a hard time playing with these. My optimal set up involve a coffee table a CD rack and two boxes. I'f you're playing on easy or medium the comfort issue will trouble you less. If you're looking for Expert FC runs (or know what that means) you're going to have to work a little to make these work for you.

Getting them place aside, the pads themselves works very well. People have had issues with the $90 drums and right now, at less than half the price these pads are taking everything I throw at them (bearing in mind that I've only played on hard and haven't tried the more insane songs). Messing around and playing as fast as I could these pads picked up every hit. If you're looking for a budget way to play Rock Band (or Guitar Hero) drums and are willing to deal with the obvious flaws in not having a base to set the pads up on then these may be right for you.
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Xbox 360 Charge Station 360 - Black

My son wanted a black charge station and amazon is the only one that had the color black and the thing works great and i got free shipping so that was great.............. great product so far......
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USB Rechargeable Battery Pack for Xbox 360 wireless controller charger with USB Cable

Now I don't see why anyone would go out an buy an xbox 360 controller recharger for thirty bucks when they can buy this. the other recharger require that you take out the battery pack and place it on the recharging dock, and when that happens you had better have 2 battery packs or you won't be playing for a good hour or so, I say this because I have tried the other controller rechargers out there and this one is by far the most convenient. In stead of having to take out the battery pack when the batteries are dead in your wireless controller all you have to do is plug this usb cord which comes with the recharger into your xbox and you have a wired controller, and all the while you are playing the controller will slowly charge back up, it will recharge even faster if you are not playing. I must say though the battery life for this may be just a tad bit shorter than other ones but being able to play and charge at the same time is well worth the hack off of a half hour of battery life. This charger is also very portable as well, just a rechargeable battery pack and a USB cord. One gripe I have about this may be its durability (well it was my fault though) but I would advise against having the battery charged at all times in your xbox, for it may overheat and the batteries will last 5 minutes top when you overcharge (but you gotta be charging for a week nonstop for that to happen)
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Basic Xbox 360 Toolkit (also for regular Xbox)

I recently upgraded the Hard drive of my Xbox 360 and this tool-kit performed admirably. I was able to remove my 20 gig hard drive and replace it with a 120 gig hard drive. If I had only upgraded my hard drive this product would be given 5 stars.

After upgrading the Hard drive I decided to sand down my directional pad. The kit was missing a small mini philips screwdriver, making it impossible to remove the direction pad without going to my local wal-mart and buying a Jewlers screwdriver kit.


Since this kit was supposed to contain everything I needed to open up either the x-box or the controller, I was disapointed at the lack of philips, but other then that its a great kit. I would recommend it in an instant, just remember to provide your own mini screwdriver if you plan to sand your controller.
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Evolve360 Controller Faceplate *CRYSTAL CLEAR*

IT's awesome once you get the face plate on, but puting it on is much harder than it looks.
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Guitar Hero World Tour - Stand Alone Guitar

I honestly think that this is a great guitar! It just seems that more of the people are noticing glitches. my strum-bar on this guitar is loose, so it squeaked out of the box, and now it's causing over-strums. over all f you can get a good one I think it's a GREAT guitar!

Don't take this as an average customer review by the way, this is coming from the person who easily gets 100% on we three kings (expert)!
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XBOX 360 Dual Turbo 4 Mode Rapid Fire Modded Modified Wireless Controller Control Pad (not 3 mode) for HALO 3 / Call of Duty 4 / Gears of War

First they sent me the wrong controller but it still worked. Then they realized this and wanted to give me a partial refund. I didn't want that I wanted the correct controller so i asked for it. They kept on making the refund bigger and bigger which led me to think they didn't even have the product and they still marketed it. Finally I gave up and took the refund but the stopped returning my emails.

Point: You will get a bad controller and no refund or anything
Bottom Line: Don't buy

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