Saturday, January 12, 2008

Rock Band + Real Drums = Great Project

Well Brett "Buzz" Dawson built himself a sweet new Rock Band controller... out of a real drum set! He also made a Guitar Hero controller out of what looks to be an Ibanez RG.

In the drum set he uses piezo sensors to create the output signal. That makes it as easy modification to do as well as maintaining the set's original playability.

I like the idea of using a real kick drum pedal though. The stock pedal uses a spring to provide resistance instead of a chain as in a real pedal. This substitution makes sense for a plastic controller but it also makes it hard to play in the higher levels of the game.

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