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Agree. I have known and worked with musicians for 3 decades now, and my annecdotal experiences have led me to the observation that a great bass player often knows more about chords than a good guitar player. Since they are often tasked with finding clever lines through chord progressions, their knowledge of intervals and chords is often quite extensive even though they rarely play chords. Not that there is a competition between the two: just an observation from my own experiences.

That is one hell of a journey mate. I have also found RS and customsforge to be incredible tools in helping me deal with the curveballs that life throws at us. Keep rocking that bottom end. While I couldn't pick what I love more between the guitar and bass, we all know which of the two gets people out on the dance floor!

While I have only purchased a few cheap items specifically for playing RS, I have a couple of possessions that make playing RS incredibly convenient. If you have any gear investments that you made that also supplement the game, please list them here. From cheapest to most expensive: Audio/video splitter: while I run my audio and video through a media box at home to reduce latency to almost undetectable, I needed one that I could use when traveling to play with freinds at other locations. I found this afforable splitter box that takes in HDMI from my computer and outputs video HDMI and audio from a 3.5 mm stereo audio jack. I get nearly the same performance on the road: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B017B6WFP8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s02?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Footswitch for keyboard mapping: There are a lot of CDLC where I want (or need) to switch to one of my programmed tones. I found a PC footswitch that allows you to assign keys to one of 3 pedals in a floor unit that is very much like a pedal setup for guitars. I have one footswitch mapped to change to any of the 3 custom tones that I have saved. So far it is resonsive and durable, and keeps me from having to reach over to tap one of the number keys on the keyboard. It is nice to be able to switch tones in RS by stomping on a foot pedal: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088BK2WLK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1 Pitch pedal: I want the versatility of a whammy bar but hate the sacrifice you need to make in tuning stability. I got a "virtual" whammy bar that sounds like a gimic, but is suprisingly well made with no detectable latency. The control unit is a stompbox that is like a better version of the drop-tune pedals, allowing me to drop or raise the tuning as a "virtual capo", which is great for both bass and guitar. I can reliably go all the way down to B standard without touching the tuners. The sound integrity is great, even on bass, and you don't have to have the whammy bar installed on the instrument to use the pitch pedal: the pedal is the control box that will work with any unit, where the whammy bar is just like an expression pedal that works with it. Worth noting: once I go past drop C on the bass, the RS tuner struggles to find the right notes, but every song I have played in B standard on bass has tracked perfectly. I just have to bypass the tuner for any song lower than C standard. Guitar with alternate tunings on the fly: This guitar has been the best investment I have made in 30 years of having and working in a studio. It is another that I initially thought was a gimic until I researched it and made the jump. The JTV-69 allows for me to chaning to any tuning I want on the fly without adjusting the tuning pegs. So long as you play at a volume that overrides the acoustic sound, the guitar sounds incredible even in the most dramatic tunings that would otherwise require different gague strings. I have available all the conventional drop tunings, open tunings, lower standard tunings, 5ths tunings (like violin) and even one set to 5 octaves of E across the 6 strings. There is a set of custom-program banks that I use so that I have two sets of 5 differnet tunings available from the 5-way selector switch. This makes it so that I can immediately tune to almost every alternate tuning available in RS songs in seconds without touching the tuning pegs and altering the tension and string response, with exception for the tunnings that are a little sharp or flat from A440. It has been a tremendous investment, and I no longer need a different instrument for each of the alternate tunings that I like to use. While I don't use the instrument model feature for RS (I just use the Les Paul sound, so it sounds like a LP but plays like a strat), the guitar will also do a pretty good job at sounding like anything from a telecaster or rickenbacker to an acoustic or dobro.

I was native violin (almost exclusive) for much of my life, but a broken thumb ended that for me. So I became a multi-instrumentalist: everything from sitar to cello. But I just noticed that my plucking hand callouses are thicker than my fretting hand. Can I officially declare myself a bass player now? I would like to join the club if I am worthy.

I would play RS2014 every day if I could, but manage to hit most. Despite its age, it is the perfect program for me and my needs, and I still get excited to play every time even though I have been playing since the original non-remastered version. The CDLC creators and community have dramatically added to my enjoyment of the game: I certainly play more CDLC than official - there are some real bangers on this site. So thanks to all - you have legitimately added to my quality of life.

I have found that there are a good number of CDLC songs that are a bit off A440/E-standard, and listed and programmed as E-standard. The dissonance makes them unplayable for me, unless I find the magic tuning beforehand and twiddle with the tuners. Are there any thoughts on what is best for those considering making CDLC like this? 1) pitch shift the audio in the song to be true E-standard. This feels like the best option for me personally, because if you play though a splitter into an amp or through RS, you are fine. No high maintenance tuning, which is an issue for those with a locking nut. Do some consider this taboo, like the original artists really inteded the song to be in A-444? 2) pitch shift the RS signal to the tuning of the song. Bad for the clash of the acoustic sound of the guitar vs the RS amplified sound, but lower maintenance than hitting the tuners back an forth. 3) just listing and programming the track to the true tuning. Higher maintenance to mess with the tuners, but true to the song and not a problem for split signal vs through RS. Anyone have preferences, or is anyone offended by pitch shifting the audio in the song? My intuitions tell me that most listeners wouldn't be able to tell the difference if it is within a quarter-step.

Don't buy an Acer Predator Helios. I got one, way over powered for RS, but there is something with its native sound that lags pretty bad regardless of trying everything ever listed for reducing lag.

Thanks for the info - I went through all of the standard hoops already: device properties, driver updates, NVidia settings and all of the Rocksmith configuration file stuff. I updated the sound driver (Realtek High Definition Audio SST). I have been trying to remove it and replace it with the WIndows default sound driver, but WIndows 10 is making it really difficult: it won't show the default driver as an option, and any time I remove the Realtek one, it re-installs on reboot. I am going to research to see if there are other audio drivers that might work better.

I have zero detectable latency on XB360, but I just bought an overpowered laptop because I wanted to play CDLC. Acer Predator Helios 300 7th Gen Intel Core i7-7700HQ Processor 3.80GHz 32GB Memory 512GB SSD + 2TB HDD 6GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Graphics The latency is unplayable. I have tried all of the suggestions that have come up so far: audio playback/recorder configurations, dozens of permutations of different configuration file values, driver updates, Dolby off, no HDMI, even setting the windows priority levels and qualities. Since it is a laptop, maybe it is just an artifact of the way the onboard sound is done? I am not sure where to turn to now, except for splitting the signal out to an amp. But I agree, the custom tones in the DLC are cool, and I would love to be able to play them. If there are any suggestions or intuitions as to what I may be doing wrong, I would love to hear them. So it's a bit frustrating having an over-powered machine that can't play a 4 year old game that is seamless on a generation-old game system.