Warriors Lance

Sorry for this somewhat off topic question. How do I post my screen capture from steam to this forum? I end up with a link, you folks have the screen capture picture itself, I am not doing things right and would like to fix that. If it is easy, just put it here or in a PM, if it is on the forum, a link would work too.

Well, got Rocksmith up and running again, so here is this week's bass part: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/285224644431161955/0ADF4C6F2806500F69CE866C78F65B69A26DDE29/

No attempts worth posting this week. I believe my rocksmith cable is bad. It has developed a very audible buzz. I can easily hear the buzz in cleaner tone settings in both rocksmith and a vst program. Bass is no better than guitar. I did try the J Giles band song, but RS was completely incapable of correctly interpreting any chords which meant it was impossible to get any reasonable score so I did not capture any screens. Maybe this explains why I could not get RS to track chords from the start.

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/320122457677712649/A23D6D4AC139C0EFC3D9FE0D1B0FA207B46BF5F7/ No RR for the first part of the song, you have to learn it all full speed. I have not learned it very well. That riff is real hard to sync back up with once you lose it. Fun old classic rock song once you get it.

Gave guitar a try today, don't think too much of it but here it is: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/366283832000159507/376BE05A2C748170D58551FE39BD6C73821848FF/ and bass, not impressed with it either: http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/366283832000505096/5A6E3088F0AB1262231315A261C976A12ABD55B5/

another pc cannot happen. This one is a desktop

HP with AMD 2.9 GHz quad core with 6GB memory, Windows 7

On two songs and using both guitars, I was able to have most single note stuff track properly, but chords just will not detect properly, despite great care in making all notes sound out right. I do not think it is a d string problem at all anymore. Some sort of problem with proper detection of chord notes. I have tried changing which pickup is sounding and tone controls also. I can make it worse, but not better. Until I get this straightened out, I cannot participate in the Rocksmith Championships for guitar, and score attack is basically useless with guitar.

Hmm, great minds think alike? I was off tinkering with pickups while you were typing a message to tinker with pickups!

I took both guitars and checked the pickup setup. I moved the tele pickups, recalibrated the game and played a chord strumming song and bunches of blue miss symbols. So I took that guitar and did a emulated bass of the same song which used all four strings as single notes and it tracked every note on every string correctly, well, that I played right :). I did the same with other guitar, but I did not change the pickups as they were setup correctly. I recalibrated and it tracked the emulated bass correctly, but failed on the chords again. So toyed with not playing the whole chord to cause intentional misses and the miss symbol was always blue and showed up at about the same rate as trying to be super hard to be perfect. It would appear both of my guitars sound chords that are far too muddy to separate out the notes?

Okay, I see more info needed. The guitars play fine through amps, and the d string does not sound muted or dead. When I tune in RS, the program hears the d string as easily as the other strings. But when you play a song, it misses note after note after note, etc on the d string while picking up the a and g strings just fine. When strumming something with simple chords, the display is just continuously flashing blue [miss], including the open d. It does this with both guitars, in all pickup settings, nothing seems to change it much other than increasing the gain setting by about 3db, which is doubling the volume to the game. The 3db increase did reduce misses by a little, but now the guitar is getting too loud.

You can follow along here: http://customsforge.com/topic/26057-help-frustration-mounting/

Now I have another problem. I cannot find any setting that will have my RS2014 and cable register any note on the D string of either guitar. It has no problem tuning the guitar, but it misses at least 90% of any and all hits to the D string, including the open string. I have triple checked the intonation of both guitars, no change. I also have messed with the cable gain setting. I have tried the slightly flat tuning, and dead on tuning. It seems nothing fixes this. My bass has no tracking problems at all, but the guitars both are equally poor. One is a strat copy, the other is a tele copy. Anyone know if pickup style(single coil or humbucking) has a effect? My only guitar with humbuckers is in super serious need of a refret and is not playable. I might be willing to buy a humbucking pickup guitar if someone knows that it really helps. Lance

Off topic, sorry. I keep wanting to try the guitar parts of the songs, but nothing seems to work with RS to make my guitars track properly. I cannot find any setting that will have my RS2014 and cable register any note on the D string of either guitar. It has no problem tuning the guitar, but it misses at least 90% of any and all hits to the D string, including the open string. I have triple checked the intonation of both guitars, no change. I also have messed with the cable gain setting. I have tried the slightly flat tuning, and dead on tuning. It seems nothing fixes this. My bass has no tracking problems at all, but the guitars both are equally poor. One is a strat copy, the other is a tele copy. Anyone know if pickup style(single coil or humbucking) has a effect? My only guitar with humbuckers is in super serious need of a refret and is not playable. I might be willing to buy a humbucking pickup guitar if someone knows that it really helps. Lance

Just thought I would point this out to all of you. Even if you don't play the song or download the cdlc, be sure to watch the video of the new intermediate song by Arctic Monkeys on the song's cf webpage. It is absolutely hilarious.