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(More customer reviews)I purchased a set of these for myself for Christmas and had to go back to the store to get another one.
For my husband.
He would not let me play with mine!!!
Now, we have two of these in the house, and both work perfectly.
First, let me say that this is NOT a substitute for a real drum -- it is also NOT made to hit on surfaces (it is really an air drum). It is unfair to judge it by saying "you can't learn proper positioning of the drum" and compare it in this fashion to a real drum set. What this WILL do for you is teach you rhythm and coordination, and also help you see if you have a natural aptitude for drums.
Also, probably not the best toy for kids under 10. You have to have your basic coordination ready before trying this. So, again, unfair to say the toy doesn't capture children, when it is actually not really a toy. It is not designed for children. Older kids and adults, however, would love it. For younger children, I would recommend starting with the Bop It toy, which is awesome teaching basic coordination, endurance and rhythm.
The features we love most are as follows:
1. The sound is excellent. It does sound like a real drum set, with several different drums, all the basics and some extras -- the bass pedal feels realistic and the speakers are big enough to give the bass drum a real "bassy" sound. My husband, who is an electronic engineer specializing in speakers, was absolutely hooked by the technology involved in making these.
2. The sticks are very responsive. The range is very wide -- we can hit it everywhere around it, and it still works. The picture on instruction sheet is very conservative, as we have the receiver on top of the table and the bass drum under the table, BEHIND it, and it still works every time. If your does NOT do this, then your unit is defective and you should return it PRONTO. But get a new one that works because it is worth it.
3. We can plug in our respective units to our Ipods and then plug our headphones to each unit, and be in opposite sides of the living room playing drums and not bother each other, or the neighbors.
4. Portable! Still small enough to be easily carried in a small bag.
5. The new feature, FOLLOW, lets you play the same sound on both sticks. So we can do a drum roll! And other cool neat tricks like funky intros, etc. which you probably can't do with other products... since they won't let you have the same sound on both sticks. So, drumrolls are finally possible.
6. There is a rhythm machine built into it that you can use to learn different rhythms. There are six, I think, and some of them are pretty hard, but again, they did another brilliant choice by allowing you to slow the tempo down -- or make it faster if you are a nutcase.
The bad things we found:
1. My husband's first unit had to be exchanged because it originally did not work properly. The range of the receiver was such that you had to keep the sticks on a very small area and could not really "go nuts" and play music and have fun (my hubby thinks it is an antenna issue). The foot pedal for the bass drum also was only working one every other time, and so it was very annoying. If this was our first unit, we would have said To HECK with this and probably would just have returned for our money.
But as we had one unit working perfectly in the house, we knew it was only a defect.
Now we have two units working great. It IS worth it to exchange until you get the working unit. Believe me!
2. You can't be very close to the other unit if you have two. Since our receivers are so awesome, we have to keep a few feet away as they are tuned for the same frequency. So, if you have two units, beware. This can be fun, however, as we have kept them close so that we have the bass sound come in stereo and basically jam together -- although we find that the signal gets confused when four sticks play at the same time --- I wonder why, lol)
3. Mmm no, that's it, only two.
Go get one! Don't listen to the other people!!! They don't KNOW!!!
Now back to jamming! :D
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