Ied07 Premium Rock Band Xbox 360
Drum Rocker delivers the most realistic drumming experience available to any gamer, irrespective of platform. That’s because it was built by the engineers at Alesis, one of the biggest makers of professional electronic drums in the world. As a result, you get a kit that’s designed to take a real beating, with all the positioning flexibleness that professional drummers demand. 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. When you’re ready to move from playing Rock Band to playing in a rock band, you may swap the game controller module with one of the professional drum brains made by Alesis, and you’re ready to hit the road for real! Drum Rocker’s velocity-sensitive drum pads feature a playing surface that is much quieter than other drum controllers. They likewise feel outstanding – the stick rebound off of the pad is much more natural and consistent than anything else available. The pad housing is made of high-impact plastic, designed to be whacked on stage night after night. No matter how much you inflict punishment on them, the Drum Rocker drum pads may take it. Complete the experience with up to three cymbals. There’s not one thing like finishing a monster fill by whacking a crash cymbal. Or crossing over to play your hi-hat with your right hand while you keep the backbeat on the snare with your left. Or keeping time on a ride cymbal for the duration of the chorus. Drum Rocker lets you do all that and more, with cymbals that may be placed anyplace around the kit. Drum Rocker comes with two cymbals and mounting hardware out of the box, and a third cymbal is available as an optional accessory. You get to determine how you want to use the two cymbals that come with the kit – set them up as a hi-hat/crash, crash/ride or hi-hat/ride combination, then add the third cymbal to round out the kit.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1810 in Video Games
- Brand: Ion
- Model: ION IED07
- Released on: 2008-09-15
- ESRB Rating: Everyone
- Platform: Xbox 360
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .0″ h x .0″ w x .0″ l, 33.00 pounds
- Compatible with ROCKBAND, ROCKBAND 2, and Guitar Hero for the XBOX360.
- Two Color Assignable 12″ Cymbals
- Ultra-Quiet Velocity Sensitive Pads
- All-Metal Kick Pedal
- Sturdy, Fully Adjustable Aluminum Rack
| 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 at last jam out with ease, letting your inner rockstar come out screaming.
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The Ion Drum Rocker Premium Drum set may be customized to fit your drumming style. View larger.
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| The Ion Drum Rocker Premium Drum Set Features:
- Completely customized set-up.
- Ultra-quiet velocity-sensitive drum pads.
- Sturdy, all-metal kick drum pedal.
- Professional design from Alesis, one of the biggest electronic drum manufacturers in the world.
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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 freed in September of 2008. With Rockband 2 came Ion’s Drum Rocker Set, which speedily took the Game Critics Awards top spot in 2008′s Best Peripheral/Hardware category.
Professional-Grade Aluminum Rack and Pads
While other drum controllers strength 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 may you play your hi-hat with a right-hand crossover by placing your cymbals anyplace around your kit, but by mounting your pads to the drum rack with the included metal L-arm and clamp system, you may tilt, swivel, raise and lower the cymbals to whatsoever 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 intermediate pad. The pad housing is made of a hi-impact plastic, which means that no matter how much you inflict punishment on 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 perfective amount of tension to replicate the sentiment of a real drum pedal. And keeping in line with it is set-up flexibility, the kick drum pedal comes with Velcro and retractable spikes, permitting you to place it in the most comfortable position.
Go Beyond Gaming into Real Music
Built by the engineers at Alesis, one of the biggest 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 may 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 may 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.
The Drum Rocker comes with cymbals, kick pedal, and drum pads.
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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.
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82 of 84 people found the following review helpful.
 Accurate and FUN, but replace the kick pedal
By David Whittle
For the serious Rock Band drummer, these drums bridge the gap between the video-game plastic drums and a real electronic kit. Each 4 pads and two cymbals (a third can be added, sold separately) can be adjusted, tilted, moved, and spread apart to feel more like playing a real drum kit.
106 of 112 people found the following review helpful.
 Fun Kit, but HORRID Ciustomer Service
By E. Boyd
I, sadly, have a mixed review of the DrumRocker.
43 of 44 people found the following review helpful.
 One step closer to real drums…
By Timothy D. Stevenson
I received my set via Fed Ex yesterday. Everything was very nicely packaged and labeled in the box. Instructions were included but I feel could have been a bit more detailed. Not that I needed the help but I could see where some people new to setting up electronic drumsets might be a little confused or possibly set it up wrong.
Setup took maybe 45 minutes and they supplied a tool to tighten all the bolts on the stand. One thing to note: There is an adjustment at the top of the cymbal stand to keep them from rotating. This adjustment is an allan wrench which they did not provide for me. Luckily I have my own set.
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. A trip to the local hardware store fixed this where I bought replacement nylon wingnuts. They are a lot more shallow and tighten down much further on the threads.
After putting it together and getting everything plugged in I noticed right away that the pads were amazing. Great rebound and very quiet. Single and double stroke rolls are a breeze. The cymbals felt pretty good but didn’t quite have the same rebound. 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. I’m thinking about upgrading to either a Rock Pedal or an Omega Pedal soon. I’ve read that these will work just fine with the ION.
My first impressions of the kit with the Rock Band 2 game were very good. The pads never miss hits but unfortunately the cymbals still drop notes quite frequently. I have read others are having the same problem and I haven’t quite figured out yet how to correctly position and hit them to make them more reliable. 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. None of these have worked for me yet. It’s for this reason that I’m considering removing the yellow hi-hat completely, unfortunately. It’s not fun playing it when it consistently drops hits. I’m considering changing it to a blue ride.
I’m an expert RB drummer and usually score around 95-99% on most songs and after a few runs over songs that I’m quite familiar with I find myself having less trouble with those passages I couldn’t quite get right because of controller conditions. My first try at Tom Sawyer on my new kit yielded gold stars and put me in the 16th spot on the leaderboard. I was nicely surprised with this seeing how I’d never been in the top 500 before.
This is an excellent buy if you have the money and want to take your Rock Band drumming to the next level and possibly move on to a real kit.
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. A simple 6mm 1.00 hex nut fixed the problem. I will probably replace all the stock nuts just to be safe. Still LOVE this kit! I’ve tweaked the setup a few times but I think I finally have one that I like.
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