2021 and this trick still works. Had a pair of wireless drums where the green pad wasn't registering and FINALLY got around to fixing it and the coins help the sensor pick it up again. Thanks hope you are still rocking your rock band kits too!
I wasn’t able to figure out how to remove the pads? Any tips on how you removed the pads? My pads are black not sure if that’s different then yours or his in the video are gray
2023 and this trick STILL WORKS. Had a problem with the yellow pad and it only took a nickel to fix! I also didn't realize that the different color drum pads had different internal set-ups - and the video showed that as well. THANKS so much for the McGyver workaround fix!
Couple of possibilities: Double-check how well the coins on the Yellow and Blue pads are seated. It's possible that the double/triple hits are occuring because the coins are rattling. If they seem a little loose, re-seat them with a more taut strip of tape. -OR- It could be that your yellow and blue pads are still fairly fresh, and therefore sensitive enough already. If you're not getting the responsiveness you'd like out of them, though, try pennies or dimes instead.
I just did this mod and want to thank you and come to your house and give you a hug. This made my drumset work SO MUCH better. I am a drummer and RL, and like to do a lot of double stroking, and this helps SO MUCH.
You are a god! Our yellow drum stopped working after just 4 weeks of use but was outside the 60 day warranty. it was an X-mas gift. I spent hours on the phone with the people at Harmonix who said too bad so sad it can't be repaired. Taking the pads off was a little more difficult than you showed but once I figured it out it went bette. I did have to push back the little plugs in but then with the nickels the drums were repaired!
Thanks for the tutorial my guy, I have a different model, but it works even better than before! Thank you so much for posting this, even if it may be old you still help people, so thank you
I'm stunned that this worked for me. At first I tried the penny mod where the penny was directly on the sensor under the cage and then I tried tiny pieces of cardboard and both of them made zero difference. But I didn't see how this nickel mod would work since the nickels didn't make contact with the sensor. I guess it makes the hits more rigid because the nickels are blocking the foam padding causing a sharper jolt resulting in the sensor going off. Thank you benchwarmer969. Great camera work.
just got rock bank for my kids birthday party (9 & 7 year old girls). My wife was giving me crap before the party, that their friends wouldn't like it. It was the hit of the party and I was THRILLED that I didn't have to listen to hannah montana. I LOVE the fact it turns the kids on to actual rock and not the disney cookie cutter, bubble gum, "make me want to blow my brains out" drone; that they are normally listening too. Good video, I'll be sure to use ur mod and post it.
good mod! Like someone else mentioned, it does make them a little louder. So, I used a combination of nickels and some soft foam tape. Now its more sensitive and reduces some of the sound that the nickel added
Instead of coins, I'm actually using metal Pog slammers (lol) - they're the perfect size for the green and red pads, and the fact that they're larger in diameter than nickels means they disperse force better, and don't jiggle. On the yellow and blue, I use quarters (because Pog slammers won't fit). They're thinner than nickels, and wider to disperse impact. If you're a hard drummer, the metal can begin to dent the plastic sensor contact on the drum heads. Looking for a good soft material to fix.
My yellow drum has been dodgy for ages. Sometimes it works sometimes it breaks your streak especially if you dont hit it dead centre. I will try this over the weekend so thanks in advance for the tutorial.
By the way, this did work for one pad but on another it was less effective. I tried more coins but it drastically changed the sound the pad made when hit and I found it too distracting and went back to one coin.
k im having problems with my blue pad, it works for the first few minutes, then it just dies, i made sure the coin was stuck on there and wouldn't fall, i dunno wuts wrong, can someone help?
Excellent job on this video! Really easy to understand and the closeups were perfect. Thanks for making it. I'll have to attempt this along with the "quieting pads" mod.
The plate under the yellow pad seemed a bit larger in circumference than the Red. Have you thought about trying a quarter or a half dollar coin instead?
I took a look at my drum kit and it has "QM" as the last 2 digits of it's model number. It's underneath the D-pad portion of the drum kit so can I assume it's the SL model?
It's the hardness of the coins. Use softer materials, or cut and glue a thin layer of cotton cloth to the surface of the coin that makes contact with the sensor assembly. If you have some kind of drum silencer pads, they help to reduce the force being put on the sensors (which causes them to wear down).
Hey, if you could help me, the ribber on my pads are like,, peeling off... could you tell me a way to like.. kinda repair em?? or somethen... i'm just getting pissed when i'm playing and i look down and half the pad is sticking up..
It's just that all of the models are different, with QM, there is holes on the bottom of the 2 middle pads and EL has it on the outer 2, but I'm not sure with the other one.
i've had so many problems with auto-misses on I Think I'm Paranoid where the yellow and the green fail to register 10% of the time, so i can't get a good score on it. Same thing goes for the intro to RttH, i always break my combo unless i hit really hard. i should try this out
It's not a clapping or rattling sound like you'd expect if the coins weren't fastened down. It's more of an internal knocking sound. I hit the drum once, and I get one loud knock that's ALOT louder than an un-modded drum.
Just did this mod, and used electrical tape instead of duct tape. I think duct tape may actually be better, because of the stronger adhesive. The electrical tape got loose overnight and I could hear the coins rattling. Using more tape helps, or putting a small piece of foam between the two nickels.
what if you want to put two on yellow or blue since theyre different, one on the metal plate thingy, and would you just put one the same way as the red?
DUDE, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!! YOU SAVED ME 80 BUCKS!!! my green pad only worked 10% of the time and thats only when i hit it REALLY hard! but only putting two nickles didn't work.... i ended up pealling back the top part of that sticky band-aid looking thing underneath the censor and put one in there and also put two on the out side of the censor as in the video...so anyways thanks bro!
i have the EL model, but it seems like i have to strugle a lot more than you have to get the pad off and im quite scared that i wont brake it :S but my red pad is usually sleeping on the job, and i really want to get it fixed.
thanks for this, i had a lot of hard times with my red drum not working right but whenever i mod something i always get nervous and i screw up and try and blame the old problem even if its fixed lol
I did this last night, and it definitely improved my yellow drum, but I'm having a problem with the red one. I tried it with one and two nickels, and each time it caused the drum to make an extra loud knocking sound when I hit it with the stick. Not only that, it seems to have decreased the sensitivity causing more missed notes. I've since removed the nickels from the red on. Any ideas?
I have a question how wont this void our warranty? we are opening the drums and sticking coins in there that are not supposed to be in there. Now if our drums dont work after this, what are we supposed to tell EA? Im not trying to sound rude I like your idea of the coins, but I just want to know how this isnt voiding our warranty?
ok, really important question. does this work for the wii drums? cuz, when i look at the back of the drums, i see "0M" at the end. is this ps3/360 only?
It's hard for me to compare the way mine sounds compared to the way yours do after the mod, because I have silencing pads on mine. Is it supposed to be a lot louder after the mod? Or should it just sound "different" than it was before?
Same thing with Me I wonder if this is a common problem??? If you have any game stores Get their phone number and call them ask them if they could fix them???
BEWARE when trying something like this. I checked this video for reference on how to open up my drums for a repair rather than a mod (I have this same EL version, but the Beatles version, though it seems built the same). In trying to remove a pad, ultimately, the plastic mounting pieces that are screwed to the backside of the drum pad that the rubber pointy gaskets go through broke - the plastic broke. Maybe it would have been stronger years ago, but bottom line is that even after the gaskets were exposed, I could NOT get the pointy rubber gaskets out of the drumset - not even with pliers. So if you remove the head, and the gaskets don't come out, it's going to be very hard or impossible to get the head back on Be careful
You can just plug it in again. I don't know if all models are like this but mine has a connector, one coming from the drums and another from the pad. Not a big deal really.
Watched the vid again, just modded my drums with 4 Nickels only. Works great! Slight hints of double-hits... Thanks a lot though, much better than before.
The clacking of the coins was driving me insane. So, I devised a solution to silent the them: I use only 2 nickels - one on the underside of the red and green drum heads. To replace the other 4 nickels, I used ordinary beverage coasters - you know, the cheapo ones made out of that hard, papery/cardboard material? I cut them into circles and taped them in. They're as thick as nickels, and are fairly hard - yet soft enough to muffle any clacking.
Anyone know a mod that is free using common household items (E.G. Sock mod uses socks) to really silence the pads down alot? Ive been searching for and hour!
nevermind, its a bit hard to open the first time. however, the fix doesnt work for me, the red pad still doesnt respond correctly. tried to used as much as 4 coins but still..
or you could just put a sock around your drum pads its way less complicated than this but this is cool too and probably more reliable but i just use one sock on my red drum pad. I just take a regular tube sock which are the long kind and you just wrap it aroundand tape it with electrical tape or duct tape on the bottom of the drum pads. and you can use a rubber band to hold it into place a little better. and it actually works. but i really like this video but the thing is i dont have the modeL#.
Can someone help me? My green pad doesnt work. If you hit like 10 times it only takes 3 hits. Do this work for that or what. I just got new pedal to my kit and now the kit is broken, plzz help
Dude, even though these videos hello how old I appreciate it thank you. I’m repairing the drums that I got when I was in a wreck deployed my youngest daughter thought she could sit on it so naturally, I freaked out but now I can see where all the wiring is and how to take it apart. Thank you so much Mann appreciate it.😊
i no wat ur problem is i had the same thing myn looked completely different but wat i did was that i used 5 little magnets and put them on the inside on the bottom of the pad itself and it worked i put 1 in the middle and the rest next 2 the 1 in the middle surrounding it try it see if it works
2021 and this trick still works. Had a pair of wireless drums where the green pad wasn't registering and FINALLY got around to fixing it and the coins help the sensor pick it up again. Thanks hope you are still rocking your rock band kits too!
2022 and still works 👍🏼
I wasn’t able to figure out how to remove the pads? Any tips on how you removed the pads? My pads are black not sure if that’s different then yours or his in the video are gray
2023 still rocking because if this video
@@23chaddavispush in those rubber holders with a flathead screwdriver
@@reggieusher1813 2024 I love Rock Band
Protip: Don't whisper into your mic then cut to a loud song. OW, my ears. x.x
2023 and this trick STILL WORKS. Had a problem with the yellow pad and it only took a nickel to fix! I also didn't realize that the different color drum pads had different internal set-ups - and the video showed that as well. THANKS so much for the McGyver workaround fix!
What model did u repair?does it work for a ps4 model
@@nasstyboiii_hbp9531 i did that to my ps4 drums. Push in those rubber holders with a flathead screwdriver
Couple of possibilities:
Double-check how well the coins on the Yellow and Blue pads are seated. It's possible that the double/triple hits are occuring because the coins are rattling. If they seem a little loose, re-seat them with a more taut strip of tape.
-OR-
It could be that your yellow and blue pads are still fairly fresh, and therefore sensitive enough already. If you're not getting the responsiveness you'd like out of them, though, try pennies or dimes instead.
I just did this mod and want to thank you and come to your house and give you a hug. This made my drumset work SO MUCH better. I am a drummer and RL, and like to do a lot of double stroking, and this helps SO MUCH.
You are a god! Our yellow drum stopped working after just 4 weeks of use but was outside the 60 day warranty. it was an X-mas gift. I spent hours on the phone with the people at Harmonix who said too bad so sad it can't be repaired. Taking the pads off was a little more difficult than you showed but once I figured it out it went bette. I did have to push back the little plugs in but then with the nickels the drums were repaired!
Thanks for the tutorial my guy, I have a different model, but it works even better than before! Thank you so much for posting this, even if it may be old you still help people, so thank you
I'm stunned that this worked for me. At first I tried the penny mod where the penny was directly on the sensor under the cage and then I tried tiny pieces of cardboard and both of them made zero difference. But I didn't see how this nickel mod would work since the nickels didn't make contact with the sensor. I guess it makes the hits more rigid because the nickels are blocking the foam padding causing a sharper jolt resulting in the sensor going off. Thank you benchwarmer969. Great camera work.
just got rock bank for my kids birthday party (9 & 7 year old girls). My wife was giving me crap before the party, that their friends wouldn't like it. It was the hit of the party and I was THRILLED that I didn't have to listen to hannah montana. I LOVE the fact it turns the kids on to actual rock and not the disney cookie cutter, bubble gum, "make me want to blow my brains out" drone; that they are normally listening too. Good video, I'll be sure to use ur mod and post it.
good mod! Like someone else mentioned, it does make them a little louder. So, I used a combination of nickels and some soft foam tape.
Now its more sensitive and reduces some of the sound that the nickel added
Instead of coins, I'm actually using metal Pog slammers (lol) - they're the perfect size for the green and red pads, and the fact that they're larger in diameter than nickels means they disperse force better, and don't jiggle. On the yellow and blue, I use quarters (because Pog slammers won't fit). They're thinner than nickels, and wider to disperse impact. If you're a hard drummer, the metal can begin to dent the plastic sensor contact on the drum heads. Looking for a good soft material to fix.
i have been using this mod for like 3-4 months, and it is the best out there so far
Just finished and it works great 9/2/2023
thanks man!
this wasn't the problem I had with my drum set, but the video helped me a lot to solve it
My yellow drum has been dodgy for ages. Sometimes it works sometimes it breaks your streak especially if you dont hit it dead centre. I will try this over the weekend so thanks in advance for the tutorial.
By the way, this did work for one pad but on another it was less effective. I tried more coins but it drastically changed the sound the pad made when hit and I found it too distracting and went back to one coin.
k im having problems with my blue pad, it works for the first few minutes, then it just dies, i made sure the coin was stuck on there and wouldn't fall, i dunno wuts wrong, can someone help?
Excellent job on this video! Really easy to understand and the closeups were perfect. Thanks for making it. I'll have to attempt this along with the "quieting pads" mod.
The plate under the yellow pad seemed a bit larger in circumference than the Red. Have you thought about trying a quarter or a half dollar coin instead?
Thanks dude. You just saved my Beatles drumset from the trashcan
That’s what I’m here to fix
8 years later im here 4 the same shit
@@guerecagarza2169 same here 🤣 my red misses
@@justinryan2466 Hahaha blue on mine
2022 and here I am , Thank you for keeping your video up . Your probably 35 bya now 😂
I took a look at my drum kit and it has "QM" as the last 2 digits of it's model number. It's underneath the D-pad portion of the drum kit so can I assume it's the SL model?
It's the hardness of the coins. Use softer materials, or cut and glue a thin layer of cotton cloth to the surface of the coin that makes contact with the sensor assembly.
If you have some kind of drum silencer pads, they help to reduce the force being put on the sensors (which causes them to wear down).
Mi problema es que no prende alguna solución?
My problem is that it does not turn on any solution?
Hey, if you could help me, the ribber on my pads are like,, peeling off... could you tell me a way to like.. kinda repair em?? or somethen... i'm just getting pissed when i'm playing and i look down and half the pad is sticking up..
It's just that all of the models are different, with QM, there is holes on the bottom of the 2 middle pads and EL has it on the outer 2, but I'm not sure with the other one.
i've had so many problems with auto-misses on I Think I'm Paranoid where the yellow and the green fail to register 10% of the time, so i can't get a good score on it. Same thing goes for the intro to RttH, i always break my combo unless i hit really hard. i should try this out
Can you do this with a Rock Band 2 set? I know its an EL set, but I've never taken the pads off.
That guy one day in 2008, woke up and decided to be a hero ! Thx a lot man
did u have to unscrew the yellow and blue pads to take them off or can u just rip them off without unscrewing?
Is this pretty much the same thing as the sock mod? Because I have the sock mod and I'm still missing notes the way you described.
does this also work for my kit. its EL, but it has like cracks on the yellow and blue, but it effects the yellow the most. how do i fix that crack?
Just curious... Would a washer have the same effect?
It's not a clapping or rattling sound like you'd expect if the coins weren't fastened down. It's more of an internal knocking sound. I hit the drum once, and I get one loud knock that's ALOT louder than an un-modded drum.
Just did this mod, and used electrical tape instead of duct tape. I think duct tape may actually be better, because of the stronger adhesive. The electrical tape got loose overnight and I could hear the coins rattling. Using more tape helps, or putting a small piece of foam between the two nickels.
what if you want to put two on yellow or blue since theyre different, one on the metal plate thingy, and would you just put one the same way as the red?
DUDE, THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!! YOU SAVED ME 80 BUCKS!!! my green pad only worked 10% of the time and thats only when i hit it REALLY hard! but only putting two nickles didn't work.... i ended up pealling back the top part of that sticky band-aid looking thing underneath the censor and put one in there and also put two on the out side of the censor as in the video...so anyways thanks bro!
what are all the different model types? my set is a weird OM or QM. reply if you can help me with this.
thnx!
i have the EL model, but it seems like i have to strugle a lot more than you have to get the pad off and im quite scared that i wont brake it :S but my red pad is usually sleeping on the job, and i really want to get it fixed.
thanks for this, i had a lot of hard times with my red drum not working right but whenever i mod something i always get nervous and i screw up and try and blame the old problem even if its fixed lol
what wud you do if you broke the little part that you put the nickel on?
Does it matter where I tape them? Cause I have mine taped to the sensors.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is the purpose of putting the coins there?
Will I get hurt if I don’t use duct/electrical tape?
I have the QM model and I tried to take the red pad of and its like its really stuck on there
I did this last night, and it definitely improved my yellow drum, but I'm having a problem with the red one.
I tried it with one and two nickels, and each time it caused the drum to make an extra loud knocking sound when I hit it with the stick. Not only that, it seems to have decreased the sensitivity causing more missed notes. I've since removed the nickels from the red on. Any ideas?
can you do this mod with like pennies or dimes because for some strange reason i cant find any nickles
I have a question how wont this void our warranty? we are opening the drums and sticking coins in there that are not supposed to be in there. Now if our drums dont work after this, what are we supposed to tell EA? Im not trying to sound rude I like your idea of the coins, but I just want to know how this isnt voiding our warranty?
If I do this mod would it be wise to also use the "Sock Mod" as well?
ok, really important question. does this work for the wii drums? cuz, when i look at the back of the drums, i see "0M" at the end. is this ps3/360 only?
helpfull!! I should try this out my friends drums because his red broke completely...do you think it will work? or is it a wire problem?
I tried this but I keep getting annoying double/triple hits on the yellow and blue pads.. help?
It's hard for me to compare the way mine sounds compared to the way yours do after the mod, because I have silencing pads on mine. Is it supposed to be a lot louder after the mod? Or should it just sound "different" than it was before?
Same thing with Me I wonder if this is a common problem???
If you have any game stores Get their phone number and call them ask them if they could fix them???
BEWARE when trying something like this. I checked this video for reference on how to open up my drums for a repair rather than a mod (I have this same EL version, but the Beatles version, though it seems built the same).
In trying to remove a pad, ultimately, the plastic mounting pieces that are screwed to the backside of the drum pad that the rubber pointy gaskets go through broke - the plastic broke. Maybe it would have been stronger years ago, but bottom line is that even after the gaskets were exposed, I could NOT get the pointy rubber gaskets out of the drumset - not even with pliers. So if you remove the head, and the gaskets don't come out, it's going to be very hard or impossible to get the head back on Be careful
Can't get the pads off of my RB2 EL set. I can pull with all my strength but it just won't come off.
Did you ever get it off? I'm having the same issue
@@tyl3r920 Yes... and the wire that connected it came with it. I just gave up after that lmao
You can just plug it in again. I don't know if all models are like this but mine has a connector, one coming from the drums and another from the pad. Not a big deal really.
would 20 aus cents work? cus thats the same price as a nickle
I have this nickel mod now but I'm still missing random notes on yellow. =/
Does this work on a QM? He didn't make that clear, at least I didn't hear it.
Watched the vid again, just modded my drums with 4 Nickels only. Works great! Slight hints of double-hits... Thanks a lot though, much better than before.
***PLZ REPLY***
Can I use scotch tape to do this? Or does it have to be duct tape?
Does it have to be american nickels? lol im Canadian eh? (yes we do talk like that lol)
so what the coins make it more seisitive?
I have an SL model. What mod can I do?
can i use this mod on wii's drum set????
because i want to getget the exactly hit on the game XD
Alguien me explica que fue lo que hizo, (no tiene subtitulos y no entendi muy bien el ingles)
i´m from europe we don´t have nickels here only euro and cent which cent do i have to take for the coin mod can anybody tell me plz ?
Doesnt work. Did it and blue pad still doesnt register half the time.
does this fix drumpads that don't work anymore? Private Message me with an answer plz
o nd when i opened up my blue pad there was like glue in it...is that normal or watt??
The clacking of the coins was driving me insane. So, I devised a solution to silent the them:
I use only 2 nickels - one on the underside of the red and green drum heads. To replace the other 4 nickels, I used ordinary beverage coasters - you know, the cheapo ones made out of that hard, papery/cardboard material? I cut them into circles and taped them in. They're as thick as nickels, and are fairly hard - yet soft enough to muffle any clacking.
Anyone know a mod that is free using common household items (E.G. Sock mod uses socks) to really silence the pads down alot? Ive been searching for and hour!
where the hell did you get pog slammers?
I do this mod on my EL drums tomorrow and ty for this tutorial =) and Good luck for your future movies about rock band x)
nevermind, its a bit hard to open the first time. however, the fix doesnt work for me, the red pad still doesnt respond correctly. tried to used as much as 4 coins but still..
my yellow pad has a dent in it now it is acting up what happend to it?
does this work with the qm models?
I did this on my rb1 set which broke does any 1 know if you can do this with the rb2 stock kit?
this yellow tape 2:42, in my drums, broke.. what i do?
have concert?
thx!
i think those rubber stops are just for holding the drumsticks
i dont think thats how the drums work. i just took my drums completly apart and i dont see how this could possibly work.
or you could just put a sock around your drum pads its way less complicated than this but this is cool too and probably more reliable but i just use one sock on my red drum pad. I just take a regular tube sock which are the long kind and you just wrap it aroundand tape it with electrical tape or duct tape on the bottom of the drum pads. and you can use a rubber band to hold it into place a little better. and it actually works. but i really like this video but the thing is i dont have the modeL#.
sock mod is made for QM, but if you have EL use this Coin mod
I just tried 2 nickels in the red pad on the EL set, and while it's still not perfect, it's a lot better than it was before.
will it work with a QM model?
will this work on rb2 kit for 360?
it wont work with the QM models. try the sock mod for the QM's.
Can someone help me?
My green pad doesnt work. If you hit like 10 times it only takes 3 hits. Do this work for that or what. I just got new pedal to my kit and now the kit is broken, plzz help
You can tape them back from the inside or you could (really should) RMA it and get a new kit.
i have 08 EL will it work?
was this after the mod ?
Dude, even though these videos hello how old I appreciate it thank you. I’m repairing the drums that I got when I was in a wreck deployed my youngest daughter thought she could sit on it so naturally, I freaked out but now I can see where all the wiring is and how to take it apart. Thank you so much Mann appreciate it.😊
Does this also work for guitar hero drums?
will it work for the wii?
Works great. I noticed a large improvement with the red pad. Thanks a bunch!
just tried it, saw no improvement at all. Mine register just fine before and after mod...
DO NOT USE TWO NICKELS!!! i used two on my blue pad and it CRACKED!! thank god for gamecrazy 90 day warranty HEHEHEH I DIDNT MOD ANYTHING!! I SWAER!!!
This is a really nice tutorial! I'll try to do this to my friend's drums when he isn't home!
can u do this on the ps2 el drum set
i no wat ur problem is i had the same thing myn looked completely different but wat i did was that i used 5 little magnets and put them on the inside on the bottom of the pad itself and it worked i put 1 in the middle and the rest next 2 the 1 in the middle surrounding it try it see if it works