Duration : 0:7:32

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Included in this video are: Rock Band 1 drums, Rock Band 2 drums, GoodWoodMods Stealth drums, Ion Drum Rocker drums, and a Roland PDX-8.

I also punched in some waveform pictures so you can see what the actual sound wave of each hit looks like. I’ll be adding Youtube Annotations with the actual decibel values of each sound as well.

All values are decibel values at 1 meter distance:
Jackhammer = 100dB
Normal talking = 40-60dB
RB1 pads = 80dB
Ion pads = 78dB
RB2 pads = 75dB
PDX-8 = 75dB
GWM pads = 69dB

If you want to see the full-size waveform pictures, here they are:
RB1: http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee298/davidshek/sound%20test/rb1padwave.jpg
RB2: http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee298/davidshek/sound%20test/rb2padwave.jpg
GWM Stealth: http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee298/davidshek/sound%20test/gwmpadwave.jpg
Ion: http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee298/davidshek/sound%20test/ionpadwave.jpg
Roland PDX-8: http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee298/davidshek/sound%20test/pdx8padwave.jpg

Any questions, feel free to ask away!

Duration : 0:3:25

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Jade will be returning next week with a new review. She’s on vacation at Lake Havasu right now. Via la spring break!

Duration : 0:7:2

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Duration : 0:1:40

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Duration : 0:0:58

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Some cursing throughout the video. This was my third or fourth try for gold of the night.

I’m using a modification which allows me to play the game using an electronic drum kit. A complete and super detailed FAQ written by me is available at http://www.rkuo.com/blogs/rkuo_blog/pages/Using-an-electronic-drum-set-with-Rock-Band.aspx .

I’m posting this mainly to chronicle my own progress at the game, not to claim I’m a great drummer. Stupid comments will be deleted.

Duration : 0:4:7

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I’m using a modification which allows me to play the game using an electronic drum kit. A complete and super detailed FAQ written by me is available at http://www.rkuo.com/blogs/rkuo_blog/pages/Using-an-electronic-drum-set-with-Rock-Band.aspx .

I’m posting this mainly to chronicle my own progress at the game, not to claim I’m a great drummer. Stupid comments will be deleted.

UPDATE: I now have gold on this song. FC’d it outside the two triplet sections. No point in uploading it, I didn’t get the run on video and it looks pretty much like this anyway. =)

Duration : 0:3:35

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So I finally have my video of me playing my real drum kit with GHWT and it is all thanks to this guy http://www.youtube.com/aBetterOpinion

He figured this out all by himself and when he plays GHWT with his TD-9, HE DOESN’T EVEN LOOK AT THE SCREEN!!! This guy is INSANE!!! And since he told me exactly what to do before he even posted his video of how to set it up (here is the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_iykE8L4nM&feature=channel_page ), he asked me to promote his new website that should be running anytime soon. The website predicts what video games and books you won’t like… Pretty sweet, huh? So please go check out his site at http://www.aBetterOpinion.com

I put the drum sound from my Roland TD-9 kit on top of the GHWT audio so you can hear what it sounds like

Q & A:

1. Q: Do you play real drums?
A: Yes, Rock Band actually got the ball rolling, and I’ve been playing for about 6-8 months

2. Q: What program do you edit your videos with?
A: Sony Vegas Pro 8.0

3: Q: Can you hook up your electronic drum kit straight to your GHWT Drum Kit via midi cable?
A: Yes, although, varying from kit to kit and from system to system, a double hit may occur, in the event of that, watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpkiy8aOZ_Y

4. Q: What is GHWT???
A: OMFGEH WAHT TEH FUX!!!!!11@!@!!!!1 To answer your question, Guitar Hero: World Tour

5. Q: Your a fag… get a life
A: To answer your non-question, if you are really willing to go find vids of ppl playing GHWT just to tell them that they are and don’t have a life, then you must have no life, no mom, no friends, no dog, no grandma, no cat, and no life… oh, did i say no life twice?

6. Q: OMFG THAT WAS TEH SHIZZLE U ROCK!!@!!!1!!1!1!11@111
A: Why thank you, please subscribe to make sure you don’t miss anything! It’s the big yellow button above this description and across from my profile picture

Duration : 0:4:45

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A list of drummers who use electronic kits or pads:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_drums#Artists_who_use_electronic_drums

Here are some ways to connect the MIDI output of your electronic drum kit to Rock Band:

1) Seth’s Adapter: http://dagware.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!FDF54D7B666066FC!344.entry (upgradeable, flexible, programmable, multiple modes)

2) J5 9 Input: http://rockbandkickbox.com/store/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=13 (sexy, somewhat flexible, expensive, no multiple modes)

3) MIDI Rocker [LX]: http://www.bytearts.com/midi_lx/index.htm (programmable, somewhat flexible, multiple modes, expensive)

4) Guitar Hero: World Tour wireless drum kit (cheap & easy, no multiple modes, not flexible)

My videos emphasize playing the song correctly on a real drum kit over FC’ing the song on the stock kit.

My kit is a Roland with a TD-3 drum brain attached to my PS3 via a MIDI to USB adapter (see http://www.rockband.com/users/sethmeisterg/gallery/detail/U/3122209 for more info).

Unless otherwise noted, the following note to real drum mappings apply:

Red: snare
Yellow: closed hi-hat, small tom
Blue: ride, open hi-hat, secondary crash, medium tom
Green: primary crash, low tom

Note that the hi-hat is yellow when closed and blue when open even though it is difficult to see me raising it with my left foot. I try to play open hi-hat notes as they should be played wherever possible, but at times I may hit another blue pad if I’m not 100% familiar with the song. Also the hi-hat close trigger isn’t very sensitive, so you’ll see me miss some yellow (closed hi-hat) notes that follow blue notes (open hi-hat).

Rock Band maps the drum patterns for certain songs for gameplay over realism. I will attempt to make special note of situations where this happens. There is, however, one major case where this occurs, as follows:

On songs that call for double time hi-hat playing, Rock Band switches the hi-hat and snare such that the hi-hat is mapped to red and the snare is mapped to yellow. This is so that when you play the hi-hat with both hands alternating, your right hand can hit the snare on the beat, just as you would on a real drum set. This turns out to be a major inconvenience when playing on a real kit, however. Luckily, I am able to change the MIDI notes on my drum brain to switch the hi-hat to map to red and snare to map to yellow by pressing a button on it. (The MIDI adapter can also perform this function, but the brain is more accessible.)

Duration : 0:9:34

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Duration : 0:4:34

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