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Post by greyghost88 on Oct 2, 2009 17:41:04 GMT -5
well when i battled wade a couple of weeks ago my red pad went out on the ions, It would only read one of the three hits on the hand that feeds, so I swaped the green pad to the red spot and vice versa. this worked great until today when my yellow pad started missing, so I went and played who are you I can fc all the yellows in the start and this time I couldn't even get a 2x so I will not be available to drum for at least a month until I can get some money to replace the 2 pads, I think Iam gonna just buy a four pack and have 2 in reserve about 100 bucks and then a couple weeks to ship.
also the pads arent tight they feel loose like they are not streched anymore, any Ideas before I buy new ones.
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tackhead311
artist formally known as gusano311
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Post by tackhead311 on Oct 2, 2009 17:58:25 GMT -5
try playing the drums with the my broken warbeast lol no for real that sucks hope you get up and running soon cause i know im going out of my mind not being able to play rockband.
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Post by funkdiggity on Oct 3, 2009 2:29:30 GMT -5
My ions are pretty fussy, and I used to have similar problems all the time. Two things really helped me. One was to get some of those noise reducing things for your drum pads. Even a cheap set (which is what I used, bought for $5.00 on clearance at a game stop lol) made a pretty remarkable difference. It reduced wear and tear on my pads, and significantly improved the amount of notes my faulty pads were dropping.
The other thing I did was to take each individual pad apart till I got to the piece that sits beneath the pad itself and connects to the actual sensor. I took that piece and turned it until the worn out part was opposite where I usually hit. So say, if the worn out part was at the 12'o'clock position, I kept turning it til the worn part was at the 6. I then did the same thing with the actual exterior of the drum pads. Since I tend to hit in roughly the same area of my drum pads all the time, I effectively replaced the drum pads.
I don't know how much all that made sense, and I may be misremembering what the insides of the drum pad looked like. This was a few months ago, after all. But the ion pads are pretty simple really. I think if you take one apart you'll get the rough idea of what I'm saying. I hope it helps. Your pads don't sound too much worse than mine were when I finally did this, so you may see an improvement. Though even if you don't it may be something to keep in mind on your next set of pads.
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