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Xbox 360 Drum Rocker Premium Drum Set | 
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| From: Ion
Category: Video Games
List Price: $299.99
Buy New: $253.08 (On sale from $267.73)
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Rating:  42 reviews
Sales Rank: 822
Platform: Xbox 360
Media: Accessory
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Xbox 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 34.7
Dimensions (in): 55 x 0 x 25
MPN: ION IED07
Model: ION IED07
UPC: 855960000825
EAN: 0855960000825
ASIN: B001E2OW1Q
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Winner of Game Critics Awards for Best Peripheral/Hardware for 2008 | | • | Completely customizable set-up; ultra-quiet velocity-sensitive drum pads provide realism and consistency | | • | Aluminum stand, metal kick pedal, and hi-impact drums are all designed to take abuse | | • | With purchase of optional drum module, kit can be converted into a complete electronic drum set for real-life playing | | • | Compatible with Rockband and Rockband 2 for the Xbox 360 |
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Amazon.com Product Description
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 finally jam out with ease, letting your inner rockstar come out screaming. 
The Ion Drum Rocker Premium Drum set can be customized to fit your drumming style. View larger. | 
Professional-grade design allows you to unleash your inner rockstar. View larger. |  | 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 largest electronic drum manufacturers in the world.
|  | | 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 released in September of 2008. With Rockband 2 came Ion's Drum Rocker Set, which quickly took the Game Critics Awards top spot in 2008's Best Peripheral/Hardware category. 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. Not only can you play your hi-hat with a right-hand crossover by placing your cymbals anywhere around your kit, but by mounting your pads to the drum rack with the included metal L-arm and clamp system, you can tilt, swivel, raise and lower the cymbals to whatever 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 average pad. The pad housing is made of a hi-impact plastic, which means that no matter how much you punish 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 perfect amount of tension to replicate the feeling of a real drum pedal. And keeping in line with its set-up flexibility, the kick drum pedal comes with Velcro and retractable spikes, allowing you to place it in the most comfortable position. 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. (Drum modules are sold separately.) And with the option of purchasing a third cymbal, you can 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.
View cymbal, kick pedal, and drum pad. |
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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| Customer Reviews: Read 37 more reviews...
 One step closer to real drums... September 18, 2008
Timothy D. Stevenson
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
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.
First Drum Kit Ever October 1, 2008
T. Countryman (FPO, AP United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I received my kit yesterday and set it up with little issues:
Is Good things:
-Setup took about 45 minutes and this is the first kit I have ever even touched.
-Drums are very responsive as well as the cymbals.
-Very customizable and versatile for any setup
-Kick Pedal is a lot easier to use and maintain beats on than the stock pedal
-Packing for materials was very nice (ION box NOT Amazons!), as I live in Japan and use military postal services our packages do not always arrive in a "safe" state
-I did not have an issue with the provided wingnuts luckly, but I have not taken the kit apart yet.
Is Not So Good Things:
-Requires you to have an allen wrench on hand as the kit does not supply (even though it states it is in the parts checklist)
-Some people seem to have issues with the cymbals and there is a forum on the site to help/address this issue. http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php?t=82452
-Kick pedal seems to be sticking on double bass hits. This may be due to the fact that the spring has a lot of glue on it that was used to manufacture the pedal.
-Takes up a lot of living room real-estate and does not compact to a decent storage size with out taking it apart.
All in all this kit is awesome, addicting, and well worth the money to buy it. It has made the game even more fun than ever.
Love the set - Might not work with Guitar Hero: World Tour October 27, 2008
Daniel Harp (Texas)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
First, I love this set. It's been sturdy and reliable so far.
I wanted to note here that it might not work with Guitar Hero World Tour though.
It seems when you hit a cymbal on the ION kit, GH:WT registers it as a hit on that color AND "orange", thereby counting as a miss-hit and reseting your score multiplier.
I use the Omega pedal, which works great with the set (just needs a 1/8th to 1/4th adapter) though it needs something to be anchored against so it doesn't creep away from you as you play.
I've also found that super-glueing the four feet to the base of the set helps tremendously in stability.
UPDATE: It seems Activision has patched Guitar Hero: World Tour so it now recognizes the Ion Drum Rocker kit properly.
Transition from Gamer to Drummer made easy and fun. October 19, 2008
Geddy S. Kastner (Jacksonville, FL. USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is probably one of my best investments ever. Granted it's not a complete drum set or anything, but it's perfect for those who have started to enjoy playing the drums because of Rock Band. The pads and cymbals are all really sensitive, and they even respond based on how hard you hit them (which is not something I expected at all). I've heard from a few sources that there have been problems with some of the pads or cymbals, but I have yet to encounter any (perhaps there was a defective batch that was sent out for the first wave), and as long as you tighten everything down, you don't have to worry about re-adjusting everything from playing. Anyway, I would definately recommend this product to anyone who has the cash, and space. It's really fun to just jam on, and as long as you don't have a defective one (which would be apparent the first time you play) it's very reliable.
360 Ion Drumset October 21, 2008
Jordan Van Horn (PA, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am vary satisfied by the drum set. full adjustable pads and movable cymbals. i would also like so say i like the new bass pedal. sure its not 100% like a real kick pad, but its a hole lot better than that black and orange thing they gave us just a couple years ago. the only thing i can really find to complain about is you cant adjust the angle left or right. just up and down back and forth. its not a bad thing it just makes placement or cymbals a little harder.
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