Mad Catz Noise Reducing Drumsticks for Rock Band

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This product is terrible. It actually worked pretty well for about 5 minutes. The rubber tips on the ends of drumsticks almost immediately flew off so any noise dampening effects were now nill.

So I put the rubber tips back on and super glued them in place. About 5 minutes after the next use a drumstick literally broke in half. The fitting that screws the two halves of the drumstick together wasn't glued to the bottom half of the drum stick very well.

Since it was only 10 dollars it wasn't worth my hassle to return so I just threw them in the garbage. Not worth the hassle. Just buy the silencing pads or go to guitar center or something and pick up some real plastic/rubber sticks that don't unscrew in the middle.

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Just about every single aspect of this product was truly awful. Firstly, within 3 minutes of getting them out of the box, the rubber tips had flown off, thus starting a 30 minute game of "Find the small objects in a 20 foot room".

One glob of glue later inside the tips and they held for a little longer, although, within two hours of regular use, the rubber on one of them had split, rendering the pair useless.

Added to this is that the sticks themselves are ridiculously heavy, considering they are built to hit plastic drums, and for some bizarre reason, they are split into two parts with a screw thread in the middle. Something which led to them becoming loose during play.

Worth it only if you want to spend £10 on something to throw at your cat.

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I only recently bought the Rockband 2 music system, and the stock wooden sticks that come with it feel terrible, they are supposedly Ludwig 5B's but they don't even feel like 5A's. The wooden sticks don't seem to respond properly with the Rockband 2 drum heads like they might with a real drum set. Hence my purchase of the MadCatz composite drum sticks.

Don't be fooled, these are hefty weight, however the rubber/silicon tip covers provides a really nice bounce off of the drum heads, if you like lighter drum sticks you will likely hate this product, but if you like hefty 2B drumsticks you might like these for practicing, I know I do.

The problem with them is one thing, the rubber tip heads come flying off while you are playing, you don't even need to see them fly off you will notice immediately that something is not right. The simple solution to that is to use instacure modeling glue, just a drop will do, this stuff drys in 1 to 3 seconds so don't put it in the tip and squeeze the tip together else it's done for. Instead simply put a drop or two into the rubber tip, and then quickly put the tip back on the drum stick and let it dry for an hour or so (yes it's done in 1 to 3 seconds, however it might come flying off again if you don't wait the hour). Now the tip will no longer come flying off.

The other trick that we use is where the sticks unscrew to break them down into two pieces is we put an Oring, large enough that it leaves a ridge around the stick on the "male" threaded part of the stick, then screw the sticks back together. You might wonder what this does, well for us it prevents stick slip, the oring helps to prevent the stick from sliding through our hand. Yean I know that's one of the purposes of the rubberized mini grip that comes with the sticks where you screw them together, however that doesn't do it for us, that to us is simply a way of knowing if the stick has slipped or not by whether or not we can feel that piece.

So, with the newly glued rubber tip caps, and an Oring, these are great sticks for people that don't have to have wood, and who want hefty weighted drum sticks and in my opinion they work perfect with the Rockband 2 game, however NOT to be used on a real drum set EVER!

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My son hated these. They are heavy, and they broke shortly after I bought them. (the tips broke off). Wouldn't waste your money.

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I bought these reducing sticks for my son for Christmas. Ok I have to admit they have been a gift to myself because they have lowered the noise and lessened my headaches.