Fix (or prevent) a broken Rock Band drum pedal

OK guys heres the deal. I also ran into the snapped kick pedal problem and heres how to fix it:

I have been playing the drums for about 15 years so I know how the kick pedal should be played on rock band. I also have large groups of drunken idiots playing on my set (I live above an Irish pub in a college town) on average, 5 nights a week. Most of us play on hard or expert drums and I hadn't had a problem with any of my drum equipment until last night when I was trying to rock 'the joker and the thief' on expert and my pedal snapped in half about 2/3 down. I have a friend who is also a drummer who had the same problem a few weeks ago. I solved my problem this morning by breaking a hefty plastic ruler in half and taping it to both the top and bottom of the pedal with electrical tape. i then taped over it again with packing tape and then with electrical tape again. The pedal now feels ten times sturdier that it did before it broke and there is also a nice buldge from the layers of tape that contours nicely to the arch of your foot. thats my fix.. cost me about five bucks and ten minutes of my time. just my two cents..

Or you could, you know, not do the stomp on your friggin controller.

I could have used one of those 2 weeks ago! Maybe I'll buy one just in case, seems like I'm about to break my second one.

LOL, so many problems, so many fixes.

A million folks have been trying to sell these types of unnecesary mods on the Rockband Community Forums, why did you take the bait and post this spam?

Anyone have a fix for the Red drum. If you hit them too fast, the hits don't register. It makes certain songs (like Train Kept a Rollin' and Cherub Rock) impossible.

Although I'm a bit far from playing Expert on drums, it's bound to be a problem later down the line.

I don't get it, I tried and I can't feel the pedal flexing, I've had Rock Band since day 1, and on day 1 we played nonstop for 15 hours, and even though the defective guitar broke, the pedal held up and it's still working fine today.

My problem is just the fact that my leg hurts after a period of time, I Guess I need to figure out how to get a higher chair or something

Funny thing about this article is that, this was the exact same scenario that happened to me 2 days before Christmas. "Wanted Dead or Alive" was the final song in a 3 song set list and half way thru, the pedal board snapped in half. I was not playing hard at all, the pedal is just cheap. I tried plugging in a real electronic bass drum trigger with no success and I am now waiting for a replacement. I think this this pedal board brace is a good idea.

My guitar's strum bar broke but I got a replacement in four days. No problems with the drum kit, but I play the kick pedal with the heel down technique so that all of the pressure comes from my ankle. That's a lot less force than a thigh+heel can muster, and for me it's quicker too.

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The issue is having to spend MORE money on an already VERY EXPENSIVE game!

Anyone think about that? Can't EA just get it right the first time? Oh... Righ... it is Electronic Arts.

oh yes... I bought three of the 'pedal metal' things, one for me as a preventative/pumped-out measure, and two others for Christmas gifts. They arrived about two weeks ago and I'm glad to support a couple of dudes just hand-making something to sell out of their enthusiasm for the game and the potential to make some money answering a need.

I don't care if you think others are dumb because they broke theirs, or how you'd never break it because you're so blah blah blah or whatever, the facts are people less cool than you have already broken them, and this sort of thing is for them, not for you, perfect guy.

Mine broke just yesterday, so I know what it's like. Along those same lines I've also researched another pedal:

http://www.woodrockpedals.com/

It's made completely from wood and entirely replaces your pedal, so you don't have to worry about the plastic breaking at the hinge.

However, truthfully, when our warranty replacement comes in I think we're going to go with pedal metal to hopefully help take some of the damage. We're not comfortable screwing it in quite yet, so we'll tape it in some means and see how that works for us.

If you are trying not to break plastic, I don't know if driving a bunch of self-tapping screws into it is the best option.

My friend just braced it with a wrench and taped the shit out of it. Worked fine

Our son broke our RockBand pedal in 3 days. We designed a replacement pedal called the "Woodrock Pedal." It won't void your warranty, because you are just replacing the existing pedal. It is easy to install an VERY sturdy. So far, my son hasn't been able to "beat" it! :
www.woodrockpedals.com

Well, if EA would have hired a Damned Engineer to build the pedal, maybe the rubber stoppers at the front of the pedal wouldn't create the force point at the weakest section of the pedal when you actually USED IT. Jesus EA, a little Design Basics if you are going to be building hardware. Build your hardware to the 300 pound gorilla who could be using your bass pedal, and not the 100 pound weakling who flat foots his bass pedal, even on expert. Give me the damned drawings for the bass pedal, and i'll fix the design flaws, and you can build the pedal for the same price. Funny how i read this story today, and went and played my bass pedal and it snapped. Sigh.. I love the software Harmonix, just get the hardware working please.

Here is a really good pedal for cheaper. It uses tape or screws.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESSOX:IT&item=280188342416&_trksid=p3984.cTODAY.m239.lVI