Yes, I went out and bought an Alesis DM5 Pro e-drum kit and an adapter sold by sethgamerg on these forums. Drums plug into adapter, adapter plugs into PS3. I'm now playing real drums with elevated cymbals and loads of pads in Rock Band. It's really difficult, but it's immensely good fun! I'm getting to the point where my scores are pretty much up to where they were with my Goodwoods. It's just getting your brain used to deciding instantly whether to hit a tom or a cymbal. Getting used to the green cymbal being to the left of the blue cymbal. I actually cheated and have two green cymbals now. One to the left and one to the right of the blue one. Both have different sounds so I can have that quiet crash with quick decay that they use a lot for the "green cymbal as rhythm" sections, and then a real loud and long crash for the big rock endings and the dramatic crashes. It works really well. Took me while to set it up properly and to get the cross-talk settings correct. My advice if anyone decides to do this is to use the "Noise" setting rather than the "XTalk" one to try and eliminate the cross-talk. Using the XTalk one seems to cause dropped hits quite often, where the Noise setting seems to have solved it for me.
Another thing I did was mod the heads slightly to try and reduce the noise of the drum pads. What I did was purchase a set of 8" Z-Ed mesh drum heads. These fit straight onto the DM5 pads with no modification. But I then placed a circle of gum rubber (actually prchased originally as a silencer for the original RB drum kit) under the mesh and tightened the mesh heads over these circles. It improved rebound and made them much quieter. On some songs (especially the tom-heavy ones) it was putting the singer off before. Problem solved! I then had to re-adjust all the XTalk and Noise settings as the pads actually made the drums MORE sensitive for some reason, but I seem to have it pretty close to perfect now.
Anyway, hopefully I'm back to getting some Gold Stars now!
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