Mad Catz Rock Band Portable Drum Kit Review

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Lets face it, the Rock Band series is based entirely upon the idea that people will be playing with friends, coworkers, or in certain party situations, other inebriated individuals. But despite being so multiplayer-centric, Rock Band requires a lot of hardware—guitar controllers, cables, microphones, and drum kits. While the guitar controllers can be carried around in one piece, the drum kit controllers must be either lugged around as one jarring unit, or broken down into several pieces. In either case, a Rock Band drummer on the go is a hard thing to be. Fortunately, the developers over at Mad Catz have posed a solution to the plight of the traveling virtual percussionist: the Rock Band Portable Drum Kit.

As part of Mad Catz's impressive series of licenses with Harmonix to produce some of the world's first Rock Band 2 accessories, Mad Catz has assembled one of the more truly unique products to come out of the franchise. By essentially breaking the Rock Band drum kit's components down to the absolute necessities--drum pads, control pod, kick pedal, and sticks—Mad Catz has made not only traveling with the kit easy, but storing it as well. The drum pads can be stacked for maximum space efficiency and portability, and the included wires are coiled to minimize cable-clutter. Taking the portability sentiment a step further, both of the included drumsticks unscrew into two pieces.

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