Alas, they were out of stock and would only be receiving more in a couple of weeks. I immediately called TOMS in Braamfontein to see if they had stock of any KD-8s. There’s been a lot of talk about third party peripherals for the game like Nyko’s Metal Pedal, but there was no way I could get hold of one on such short notice and even now, to the best of my knowledge, these are not available in South Africa.Īfter further searching, I stumbled across this video of a guy who was using a Roland KD-8 bass trigger pedal. I needed to make a plan to replace or fix the pedal ASAP. To make things worse it was the day before New Year’s Eve and my planned GH:WT New Year’s Bash of Doom was at stake.
While the pedal was still functioning, it was on its last legs – it felt all mushy whenever the pedal was depressed against the base, and it was more inaccurate in its game response than ever. Then, after only one month of playing the game the pedal itself began to physically break apart – specifically, the base plate below the pedal itself was crushed. There’s one glaring exception though – the cheap plastic kick drum pedal bundled with the GH:WT drum kit is not up to a life of hard rocking.Īfter a couple of weeks of playing, I started to notice that my kick drum pedal had developed issues with its sensitivity and was affecting my scoring due to it registering hits incorrectly.
In the continuing battle for supremacy between Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 it’s commonly accepted that although RB2 has the edge when it comes to song content, the GH:WT instruments are generally better designed and more fun to play on.