ledbthand

Awesome! The Floyd Rose is a pain in the ass for sure with Rocksmith. It's a floating system designed to be set up for one tuning. Even drop D is difficult to tune to once you have it set up for E / Eb / D etc. I'm in the process myself of selling off a few of my guitars that have tremolo systems. My brother has my BC RICH neck-through mocking bird I'm trying to get him to send me so I can get down to using one guitar and one bass for the game.

Ebay and alcohol are responsible for a lot of my "accidental" guitars. "I'll just bid $50, I'll never win it....."

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Maybe, but I'd rather just sell this guitar and build another. Re-routing the humbucker slot is a slippery slope. After all someone else may like it the way it sounds for their drop tuned grind-core band :)

It's an explorer style mahogany body guitar with a maple neck and bound rosewood fretboard. When I got it originally it had a Mighty Mite Motherbucker. Great pickup but it just sounded a little to muddy. I swapped it out for a no name 2 wire humbucker from the bottom of my parts box. That sounded nice, crunchy and bright below the 12th fret but above it had no real character and was sorta weak sounding. Then I switched to a Duncan Invader and it was also a nice crunchy tone but still muddy and basically dead above the 12th fret.By muddy I mean it sounds like the tone knob is rolled all the way off. It even sounds like that with the pickup wired directly to the output jack.I still have some other pickups to test out: Dimebucker, EMG HZ "sro oc1b", and somewhere I have another no name humbucker with only about 7k output (but I'm pretty sure its a neck pickup).Anyway I was wondering what you guys have, or would suggest, in the bridge of your Explorer or similar style large mahogany body guitars?

Depends a lot on the type of guitar you have. The way the do it in the video on the game is basically the way I do it as well. I usually replace them all at once. If your guitar has a Floyd Rose and your switching string gauge or tunings its such a pain to restring. But if you just have the fender style bridge or the stop bar style bridge as on a Les Paul its a lot quicker and totally easy. My advice for you is to not have more that 3 windings on the big strings and 5 or 6 on the smaller ones. And make sure to cut off the excess AFTER you put the string on and wind it. Nothing sucks more than having to throw a brand new string away for that reason but you'll only ever do it once hah. Also invest in a string winder. They are really cheap (under $5) and make replacing strings a lot faster.

I usually just start off at 100 speed 100 difficulty and play the song 2 or 3 times like that (I hear "Bad Performance" a lot haha). Then, when I hit the hard stuff I go back and slow down and riff repeat those parts. Turning down the difficulty however kinda makes it harder for me when more notes are added later. The high speed solo's are what I have the most trouble with. Well honestly even the medium tempo'd ones. I also have trouble with the chord riffs like "Ratt - Round and Round" and also the stuff like "Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man" with the single note strumming. I played guitar for about 15 years doin mostly nothing but power chords only really learning easy main riffs and intros to songs so anything that actually requires talent I tend to struggle with. However in the 30 or so hours I've played the game I have seen a huge improvement and I'm a lot happier guitarist because of it! I have 104.7% in "Breaking The Law" and 93.5% in Pour Some Sugar on Me" But only between 50-60% in the harder stuff like "The Trooper" , "Round and Round" and "Symphony of Destruction". Oh and "Cliffs of Dover" I have 4.4% ROFL!