arstechnica.com - Mad Catz is really up in Rock Band’s business. At CES we stopped by the company’s booth to see what they had to show us, and the new selection of Rock Band peripherals was pretty impressive.
The first thing they showed us was an updated version of the Fender Bass controller. Coming this Spring for $89.99, the new version of the controller features quieter buttons, an improved finish on the neck of the guitar, and a split strum bar that registers one side as up and the other as down… which means you can pluck even faster. That’s not the big news, though.
The controller is new, and we’d like a drum roll here, completely wireless. This is kind of a slap to the early adopters who picked up the original controller, but if you’ve held on for a wireless model, the wait is over. I had a chance to play the bass, and the whole thing feels much nicer than the original. Plus, you don’t have to worry about those wires. Very nicely done.
The other product that got us even more excited was something that we reported on before, the ability to attach a pedal to the guitar to activate overdrive like you would distortion on a real guitar… Read the rest of this entry »
