The original drum kit shipped with Rock Band is anything but quiet. The newer drums are substantially nicer, both in build quality and overall noise produced. Those with the original drum kit are left in the dust unless they’d like to shell out for the new drums.
I’ve come across an inexpensive way to quiet (not [...]

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Color me surprised (well, don’t) but rumor has it the sweet new drum kit that comes with Guitar Hero: World Tour is incompatible with Rock Band 2 for the PlayStation 3. Wait, haven’t we seen this before? And didn’t Sony say this wouldn’t happen again? Hey, fellow consumer, bend over a little further, won’t you?
Luckily [...]

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In its Playstation Blog, a Sony rep announced today that it has been working with vendors like Activision, Harmonix, Konami, and Neversoft to “ensure that PlayStation 3 guitars and drum sets will all feature a basic level of gameplay compatibility”. What this means to the PS3 faux-rockers is that the instruments for the upcoming titles [...]

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I got bored yesterday and started looking around on Instructables and found this gem – a guitar stand made of PVC. I realized this would be handy to have, as I have 2 Rock Band guitars, 1 Guitar Hero 3 guitar, and 2 Guitar Hero 2 guitars (on loan at the moment). Instead [...]

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