Oh snap, Activision -- Harmonix are stealing your edge. Today, Harmonix and PDP (the guys behind the Xbox 360 motion controller) announced the retail release of a new kick pedal for Rock Band that comes packaged with a double bass adaptor for two-pedal play. And get this: it’s compatible with Guitar Hero: Metallica.
The suggested price of the two-piece set, "The Rock Band Kick Pedal With Double Bass Adaptor," is $24.99. In addition to working with Activision’s latest Guitar Hero iteration, the double bass action will translate to Rock Band, Rock Band 2 and Guitar Hero: World Tour. It’s also universally compatible with all console iterations of Rock Band.
This doesn’t seem like that bad of a deal, especially if you’re looking to pummel the bass like Lars and don’t feel like committing to yet another plastic drum set. What do you guys think? Are you metal enough to go out and buy this?
HARMONIX, MTV GAMES AND PDP ANNOUNCE THE ROCK BAND® KICK PEDAL WITH DOUBLE BASS ADAPTOR IS NOW AVAILABLE
Officially Licensed Rock Band Pedal Allows Players to Rock Two Pedals at the Same Time for Advanced Game Play
Cambridge, MA – April 7, 2009 -- Harmonix, the leading developer of music-based games, and MTV Games, a part of Viacom’s MTV Networks (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), today announced that the officially licensed Rock Band® Kick Pedalwith Double Bass Adaptor distributed by Performance Designed Products (PDP) is available now at retail stores. The Rock Band Kick Pedal with Double Bass Adaptor is available for the suggested retail price of $24.99.
The officially licensed kick pedal comes bundled with an adaptor that allows players to use two Rock Band kick pedals at the same time. The Rock Band Kick Pedal with Double Bass Adaptor works with all Rock Band and Rock Band 2 games and functions with all in-game tracks including freestyle and drum fill sections [1]. In addition, the Rock Band Kick Pedal with Double Bass Adaptor is also compatible with Guitar Hero® World Tour and Guitar Hero®: Metallica® when used in conjunction with a Rock Band drum set.
The Rock Band Kick Pedal with Double Bass Adaptor is universally compatible with Rock Band drum kits for Xbox®360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system and Wii™ home videogame console from Nintendo.
Rock Band is rated “T” for Teen with descriptors of lyrics and mild suggestive themes by the ESRB. Rock Band 2 is rated “T” for Teen with descriptors of lyrics and suggestive themes by the ESRB.
For more information about Rock Band, please visit www.rockband.com
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8:04 PM on 04.07.2009
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And brings hopes for double pedal in RB"3"
I've got one, it's nice. However, it removes the ability for the drum set to identify sustained pedal presses, so you can't hold the pedal down anymore to bring up a list when browsing your songs. For example, without the adapter if you were sorting songs alphabetically you could hold down the pedal to bring up just a list of the alphabet, scroll down the much shorter list to the specific letter you want, then release the pedal to bring back the full list starting from that letter. With the adapter, it doesn't work because it doesn't see that you held the pedal, only that you pressed it. You can alternate pressing both pedals to scroll through the list about as fast but it's harder to tell where you at scrolling that way.
Regardless, great price for either a pedal replacement or second pedal. Worth the $25 to me, even though it's been extremely difficult getting used to 2 pedals, lol.
1. you'd need a mono splitter to begin with
2. the way the circuit works, if you have one pedal down, the other one will be ignored, so playing proper foot-down won't work, and if you're trying to do fast double bass, it won't work at all.
Go ahead and try though.
There is a homebrew circuit you can wire up if you've got the electronics chops, but the adaptor that comes in this pack is a better option for most people.
Activision must be shitting rage now that kick pedal also works for Guitar Hero. Is Activision going to sit down and watch millions of dollars slip away, or are they going to have to break some knees?
I have a Yamaha DTXplorer electronic kit, I've seen people on ebay hool it up with RB....I'd like to try it someday.
here come the "this calling" fcs.
Fuckers
=)