Best PlayStation 3 Game Drums
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3, PlayStation2. Captures the raw power, physicality, and sheer enjoyment of real drumming.. Game sold separately.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"ouch rocking too hard with my budz!"
"Wired so no dongle. Con - Some scratches and the X button and the D-Pad sticks a little when you press it but that was expected from a used item!"
"My son is addicted to Rockband and was so excited to get these!"
"Bought this set to replace a pawn shopped version I bought which had a fault foot pedal and a bad red drum sensor."
"a little flimsy, like it was put back together by a third party."
"As a legitimate drummer this is a nice setup for anyone that might be considering it or just that wants to game."
Mad Catz Rock Band 2 Triple Cymbal Expansion Kit provides the means for you to drum like the pros do with velocity- sensitive Crash, Ride, and Hi-Hat cymbals (also compatible with Rock Band 3 drum kits). Compatible with Rock Band 2 and Rock Band 3 Drum kits.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"While the cymbals add a lot of flash to fills and free-form playing by being mapped to their own sounds (Yellow - Hi-Hat, Blue - Ride, Green - Crash), giving you eight total sounds in those modes, that flash doesn't carry over to the songs themselves. The volume of striking the cymbals is kind of a turn-off, too: now that Harmonix has delivered a much quieter drum kit, adding the cymbals suddenly makes it about as loud to hit as the RB1 kit had been. It's not bad if you've got the volume up, but if you're playing at night and trying to keep the noise down, you may find yourself hearing the tap of your sticks against the cymbals and little else."
"I've seen several reviews here that says that the cymbals slips when it was hit too hard and sometimes the cymbals double-hits when hit too hard. Cymbals Double-hit: I noticed that one of the three cymbals I got was too sensitive. After trying this and testing with songs with lots of cymbals (Dead on Arrival) I noticed that I never missed a note again when hitting the sensitive cymbal."
"These cymbals definitely make playing the drums a lot more fun. Even when I play Beatles Rock Band (which has no support for Pro Drums), I still use these cymbals because they're just so fun. I'd strongly recommend making your own dedicated stands for the cymbals or maybe buying some real cymbal stands, if you can figure out a way to make that work."
"These are hands down the best things I've added to my Rock Band drums outside the silencers."
Guitar Hero World Tour delivers the most realistic drum experience ever in a video game with this wireless authentic drum kit. Collapsible adjustable stand makes drums easy to set up, customize for height, move, break down, and store.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this complete set for my ps3 a year ago ."
"after researching reviews from users, teck sites, and stores, one thing I found bad about this set is some players got problems with the response of one pad and one symbal."
"After realizing this wasn't available locally any longer we were happy to find it on Amazon. We ended up taking the main control assembly apart and one of the cables wasn't seated properly."
"The drums feel great to hit, have awesome responsiveness and never seem to mess up: you won't get frustrated because of anything other than your lack of skill at a song."
"i have had no training on drums what so ever..im a guitar player or keys.on ps3...the drums are the hardest to get use to because my left hand is not use to being used in this manor...but it works.they do what they are suppose to."
"The item condition was as advertised and the packaging was satisfactory."
"I e-mailed again and they finally responded that I was to return the entire drum set."
Best Xbox 360 Game Drums
While other drum controllers lock you down to a pre-molded plastic array of pads, Drum Rocker's professional aluminum drum rack lets you position your snare, tom and cymbal pads wherever you want. Drum Rocker's velocity-sensitive drum pads feature a playing surface that is much quieter than other drum controllers. The Ion Drum Rocker Premium Drum set can be customized to fit your drumming style. 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. 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. 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. What's in the Box: Aluminum drum rack, 4 drum pads, 2 cymbals, drum pedal, all mounting hardware and connecting cords, and 2 drumsticks. Compatible with ROCKBAND, ROCKBAND 2, and Guitar Hero for the XBOX360. Two Color Assignable 12" Cymbals.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I figured when I tired of the game I could use these with a drum controller to add some percussion to my work. Using the provided drum trigger and pedal....The cymbals require a very hard hit. The drum heads had a "sweet spot" and if you hit them wrong you got a flubbed response on the game. In the "freeplay" section of the game I found that rapid hits didn't register in real time."
"Pros: Build Quality. Drum Accuracy (No missed hits). Feel (These drums feel great to play). Rebound (You get a lot of rebound off of the drum head). Sensitivity (Even very light hits register). Easy Setup (about 45min but that's because there is so much customization possible). Compact (they actually fold up to about the same size as the RB2 drums). Metal Drum Pedal (It's not going to break like my RB2 pedal did). Cons: I really only have one con and its very small and trivial. I would like to see a bottom brace on the bottom of the rack that you could hook the drum pedal to so it wouldn't slide around as much and so it would brace the drums better."
"One thing to note: There is an adjustment at the top of the cymbal stand to keep them from rotating. Another thing to watch for... the cymbal holders are held in place with a metal loop with threads on the end. The wingnuts they supply are very large and the threads are not that long so I found myself stripping the very end of the threads trying to get the wingnut on. The kick pedal is really made to simulate a hi hat pedal so I was a little off-put at first but it still works quite well and is lightyears beyond the original stock RB1 pedal. The pads never miss hits but unfortunately the cymbals still drop notes quite frequently. Some people suggest hitting the edges of them with the stick, some say tighten them down very tight and some say remove the felt padding beneath them. Edit: 9/23/08 - Well the Nylon wingnuts held for one or two moves but I ended up replacing the nut within the plastic wingnut."
Best PlayStation 3 Game Music Controllers
Official Rock Band Microphone, compatible with PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox360. High-performance microphone: Accurately reproduces the sound of your voice.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It sometimes go out of wack when the clapping parts in a song show up(like you hit it but it doesn't register no matter how hard you smack it) and the game doesn't register you as singing onkey when you know for a fact you are but other than that it works great!"
"Grandchildren LOVE using this great mike to perform with the WII games."
"Works well with Rock Band."
"I purchased this mic to replace my broken Rock Band mic and it works perfectly."
"Smaller than the microphone that I originally have with my Rockband game."
"However, prior to purchasing this microphone, all I had for her to use was my headset plugged into the controller."
"Too much delay and sensitivity out of this microphone for rb4 ps4."
"Worked initially mostly OK with just a second or so delay."
Best PlayStation 3 Game Music Controllers
Official Rock Band Microphone, compatible with PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox360. High-performance microphone: Accurately reproduces the sound of your voice.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It sometimes go out of wack when the clapping parts in a song show up(like you hit it but it doesn't register no matter how hard you smack it) and the game doesn't register you as singing onkey when you know for a fact you are but other than that it works great!"
"Grandchildren LOVE using this great mike to perform with the WII games."
"Works well with Rock Band."
"I purchased this mic to replace my broken Rock Band mic and it works perfectly."
"Smaller than the microphone that I originally have with my Rockband game."
"However, prior to purchasing this microphone, all I had for her to use was my headset plugged into the controller."
"Too much delay and sensitivity out of this microphone for rb4 ps4."
"Worked initially mostly OK with just a second or so delay."
Best Xbox 360 Game Music Controllers
Crafted after classic professional keyboard designs, its versatile layout—capable of use on a tabletop or strapped over the shoulder like an electric guitar — incorporates an ergonomic sensibility that provides comfort to the casual gamer or seasoned musician. Empowering you to rock outside the realm of videogames, the Wireless Keyboard also functions as a MIDI controller and boasts a two-octave, non-weighted, velocity-sensitive keybed ranging from C3 to C5. Keyboard grip is contoured and incorporates an ergonomic sensibility that Provides comfort to the casual gamer or seasoned musician. All-new Keyboard instrument for Rock Band 3.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Its a solid little keyboard with better build quality than allot of midi controllers and analog modeling synths. Ive hooked up every guitar hero and rock band toy up to synths before and they all worked soso."
"Got this for my twelve-year-old son and he loves it."
"I have played rhythm games with guitar shaped controllers for ages... Way back when Guitar Hero 1 came out the concept of playing a game with a 5-buttoned plastic guitar and living out your rock fantasies with little to no practice was almost too much awesome to handle. In pro keys mode you play every note on the keyboard. It really makes you feel like you can play keyboard, unlike the 5 button approach to the guitars."
"Luckily enough there is a "Learn an Instrument" Mode that will roughly teach you some basics, but I found it failed to even give you the correct way to place your hands. After you get accustomed to the very very basic of things you can move on to the learn a song mode (Only available for songs from Harmonix not RBN) this will give you the most repeated parts of the song and your goal is to get 100% on each section. So it doesn't really teach you anything you just got to figure it out as you go."
"This keyboard is a better quality than most Rock Band controller instruments."
"On the other side of things, my 5 year old daughter can use it to play the guitar/bass parts more easily than using the actual guitar controller, because there is only one button to press for each color, and doesn't require the coordination of fretting a note with the left hand and picking it with the right."
Best PlayStation 3 Game Guitars
Guitar Hero 5 allows fans to play alone, as a full band or, for the first time, with any combination of multiple guitarists, bassists, drummers or vocalists, to customize their musical experience. Package includes guitar controller, shoulder strap, hardware guide and two AA batteries.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"When I ordered this I didn't realize finding a receiver for it would be difficult I'm giving it five stars because of course it works but also because the seller is amazing."
"I recently bought the guitar... eventhough I received a faulty dongle that didn't sync with the guitar (this is a common problem with wireless guitars, and nothing has to do with the seller, but the manufacturer instead)..."
"plays great.didnt have to sync it at all.though i had a problem with getting my guitar to work with ps2.all it was is it doesnt play rockband just guitar hero games.im cool with that."
"I would also recommend buying a new guitar instead of a used one because I've read that at times these controllers are subject to abuse--maybe the player got a little too in character after a set list."
"The last guitar hero guitar I owned was the white one that came with Guitar Hero 2, and I loved that thing to death."
"Guitar Hero guitar all the way."
"Needed another guitar and this one is great and was a good price."
"There are scratches all over the guitar, and in the sides where the two halves of the guitar are joined together, there is some kind of gooey stuff, like a child with sticky fingers was playing with this guitar."
Best PlayStation 3 Game Microphones
Official Rock Band Microphone, compatible with PS2, PS3, Wii, Xbox360. High-performance microphone: Accurately reproduces the sound of your voice.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"It sometimes go out of wack when the clapping parts in a song show up(like you hit it but it doesn't register no matter how hard you smack it) and the game doesn't register you as singing onkey when you know for a fact you are but other than that it works great!"
"Grandchildren LOVE using this great mike to perform with the WII games."
"This is a great, affordable microphone that actually records sound pretty well - better than most other affordable microphones, at least in my experience; I also like that it connects via USB so you can use it for your computer or consoles."
"Works well with Rock Band."
"I purchased this mic to replace my broken Rock Band mic and it works perfectly."
"Smaller than the microphone that I originally have with my Rockband game."
"Too much delay and sensitivity out of this microphone for rb4 ps4."
"Worked initially mostly OK with just a second or so delay."