Jared Rea

Shortly before news hit that Oasis would be joining the DLC parade, I put in a RMA ticket for my current drum kit. It wasn’t technically broken per say, but I started to notice that I was getting random misses more and more often. So instead of waiting for it to completely fall apart, I got EA on the horn and put in for a new set.

When I did this, I had illusions of grandeur. At a New Years Eve party, someone brought a brand new PS3 Rock Band set with a manufacture date of late November. This is important because the drum kit inside was absolutely amazing. Somewhere down the line, Harmonix started using a different set of drum pads for the kits which were not only more accurate than what most of us are used to, but they were also extremely quiet. The “thock thock thock” that most people attribute to the drum kit was replaced with a very soft thumping sound as seen in most commercial and non-commercial mods.

I was incredibly stoked to receive my newly silenced, Expert destroying drum kit, only to have the new drums arrive and find out that it has the exact same problem as my current kit. Sound? Still annoying. Red drum pad? Still won’t accept proper drum rolls.

So now I have to call EA on Tuesday and see what I can do. In the meantime, one of these kits will have to suffice for the week. Papa wants some Oasis.