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  1. I had that cabinet (I don't believe mine had Celestions though -- mine cost a lot less than that), I was using it paired to a Laney VC15, because the built-in speaker was pretty bad (I had a two-amp setup with a Vox AC30 on the other side). Pretty decent cab for the price, for sure. It depends on what you'll be doing -- if this is just for playing at home, then sure, this one will be fine. But they cut a lot of corners to get the price of those Harley Benton -- for one thing, the cabinet is wrapped in paper, basically. It'll rip if you just look at it the wrong way. All the other bits (feet, corner protectors, etc) are cheap plastic. Not a big deal if it's never going to leave your house. But if you dropped it on the way to a gig (and something always gets dropped), it'd probably just shatter. Also, I admit that I'm brand-conscious when it comes to gear. The only thing in my life where the brand matters to me. I should have held out and gotten the Vox cabinet I wanted. But I ended up selling both amps anyway. :-P
  2. Do you have multiple parts to the song? You could try testing generating the psarc with just one part at a time -- it might be just one of the xml files screwing things up.
  3. Leave the standby in the OFF position (pressed toward the top). Turn on the power switch -- it makes sense that there's a slight glow, because the purpose of the standby is to preheat the tubes before giving them full power. But you'd need power to use the preamp part, obviously. You ought to look around for a cabinet though -- you need one rated at 8 Ohms. (But you can also use one rated at 16 Ohms -- 8 ohms seem to be more common though) I bought one new from Thomann for only 100 euros a couple of years back, so you'll definitely be able to find something used for much less. That should be enough to hold you until you can get a 'real' cabinet (I'm going to assume you'll want to match the head with a Marshall cabinet). Maybe ask around -- you'll likely find someone with a couple of cabs gathering dust in a closet. (I used mine exactly twice, hated lugging the thing around). This one from Thomann would do it: http://www.thomann.de/fr/harley_benton_g112.htm
  4. @@Rockinbiscuit I don't see why you couldn't use the headphone into your receiver, sure. Just turn the volume down at first. But instead of that you should be able to run the preamp out signal into your receiver. Tell you wife you want an adaptor to turn a little one into a big one. I'm sure she'll figure it out :-P
  5. @@TheCutter I never needed the .exe file, just dropping the .dll in the RS2014 was enough. I believe there are two versions of the .dll -- try the other one? (and take away the .exe) But the issue you may be having is that you just had bad luck in choosing your customs. Some customs just weren't packaged properly, and these will fail at the tuning window -- there's a thread on the forum with a list, you can check and see if they're there. So to test this, try any of @@cstewart 's cdlcs -- his always work. If they don't work for you, then we'll know it's not the customs.
  6. @@Rockinbiscuit You're using the wrong output -- the amp has a dedicated headphone output.
  7. Well, all I can say is, thanks to today's DLC my older son is really motivated to learn guitar now! As long as he doesn't start wearing that goofy hat.
  8. It only takes a minute to add in the sections and phrases -- makes it more playable, and without sections you risk having weird camera angles (if the song changes from a low position on the fretboard to a higher one for example). And don't worry about PC only -- it's very easy to convert a psarc to any of the other formats. It makes more sense to let people do this themselves. Be careful -- making customs is addictive.
  9. If you're looking for RS1 files, check here: http://www.rscustom.net/dlc Click on the button for RS1. Some of the links are dead though.
  10. Conceivably, you don't have to use EOF's wav file to make the wem. You should be able to rip to a 48k .wav file instead of an mp3. Use an audio editor to add the leading silence. Convert that as an .mp3 (or directly as an .ogg) to use with EOF. But instead of using EOF's resulting .wav to create the .wem, use your own - you could set it as high as you like in that case. One question, however, is how will Rocksmith respond to larger files? What are the typical resolutions of the official DLC?
  11. @@orcomarcio You're going to have to restart your project. Don't feel bad about it, it's part of the learning process (I restarted my first custom three times until I figured things out). The first step in creating a custom is setting the beatmap. If you haven't done that, then everything else you've done will be off -- and you're going to have to redo most of its anyway once you get the beatmap set. So it's just easier to toss everything out and start all over again. There are tons of tutorials at this point. Probably too many to wade through right now. But your basic process should be something like this: 1. New file. 2. Estimate BPM 3. Set time signature at first beat marker. 4. Drag first beat marker to the start of the waveform. 5. Save. Say yes. 6. Set beatmap, (starting with dragging the original first beat marker back into place if it moved). 7. Import notes. Make sure they're snapped to the grid. 8. Set sections/phrases. 9. Use EOF to set the fret hand positions.
  12. Are you playing with a lower difficulty level? It's possible they'll fill in the rest of the chord at a higher level. If this is an official DLC, they should provide fingering information for the notes in a chord. I don't recommend working with customs as a beginner guitarist, because a lot of customs leave out this kind of information. You can get to the customs in a few weeks.
  13. We have an Acer Win8 tablet.... I've been tempted to see if Rocksmith will run on that...
  14. There are way too many pinned topics there. Wading through all of that would take a week, so I can't blame people for not bothering. I think it's time to clean that section up -- someone needs to go through it, take all the essential information and condense into a single locked topic.
  15. Too much going on for me to be able to do that. And it would make a hell of lot more sense if they'd just give a little ticker letting you know what the upcoming chords will be. Instead of the useless dynamics meter. Better yet, they should allow us to choose or even set our own chord progression. The 12-bar setting sort of makes sense, though it seems to stray pretty far from a standard 12-bar blues progression. But after that, it's just soup. None of the chord progressions sound anything at all like actual music. Pretty frustrating considering there are MANY standard rock chord progressions. Dozens. They could easily have given us a few of those to work with, instead of the mess they created. At the least, they could have chosen progressions that all stay within the same key. I realize some people are perfectly happy with session mode. To me, it's a big waste of time. But then, I'm not really into endlessly noodling solos anyway.
  16. I'm more concerned with people putting up completed customs in the first place. Some of the customs I've looked at lately have been a complete mess, to put it politely. Not to mention the one that caused Rocksmith's tone to crash on me last night.
  17. Before you import the GPro file, you should set the beatmap - that is, drag the markers for the beats to match the music. So, assuming you've already added the leading silence, applied the bpm and set the time signature (which displays the measure numbers) : You should NOT save the file yet. That comes in a minute. 1. Show the waveform -- in the menu, use the configure waveform dialogue to look at the left and right channels. Sometimes the drums are panned to one side or the other -- you want the side where the drum beat is most obvious. 2. Now, take the first measure and position it exactly to where the music starts (since this is live, it probably won't be at the start of the waveform). 3. Save. EOF will ask you if you want to fill in the space before the first marker. Say yes. (You first measure will probably become measure number 3 -- or later, depending on how much audience noise there is before the music starts. If that marker no longer corresponds to the start of the music, shift it back into place.) 4. Now it's a matter of lining up the beat markers to correspond to the song. It's easiest to do this to the snare beat, since that's usually the easiest to see in the waveform. Usually the snare is on the 2 and 4 beat for rock n' roll, but not always. Generally there's not much BPM drift within a single measure, but there's almost always some drift since drummers are human beings (although with the guy from Blink 182 that's debatable). Just line up the beat markers to match the beat. It helps to turn on the metronome for this part - hit the M key. For really tricky parts, I'll add notes and turn on the clap and move the notes around until I'm satisfied I have the beat, then line up the beat markers accordingly (and then erase the notes). 5. Once you've done the whole song, you can import the GPro file. Do NOT drag the notes to line up to music. Instead, select and copy all of the notes, then delete them. Position the cursor to the first note/measure of the guitar part and paste. This will cause the GPro file to sync to the beatmap you just created. Note: A lot of people prefer using GoPlayAlong for the syncing process -- it seems like it's easier to do. But using EOF for this isn't difficult either.
  18. @@orcomarcio EOF can't handle Gpx files. Export the file as a GP5 (or use Tuxguitar to convert it).
  19. Yeah, I was using a guitar with active pickups, which was part of the problem. But frankly, I can't be bothered with session mode. Maybe if they ever gave us the chord progressions. Maybe if they ever actually used true chord progressions.
  20. I gave up on session mode with the "Play with Contrast" mission - since session mode ONLY hears the guitar if I'm playing at full volume, and the band goes dead if I play at anything less. Wait for Rocksmith 2016?
  21. Mp3s were developed back when the typical computer had a 1 GB hard drive.... The difference between vinyl/analog and digital is more audible, but the difference between CDs and Mp3s? I doubt many people can truly hear the difference. Especially people who've spent much of the youth with earbuds permanently shoved into their ears. The real change in music came with digital mixing -- take a look at the waveform from pretty much any song from the 1970s and earlier. There's usually a huge range in dynamics. Then look at a song from the late 90s/2000s -- they're usually so normalized that there's no dynamics left at all. It's just a wall of sound.
  22. I'm holding out for the vinyl version of Rocksmith. I've got to remember to switch my turntable back from 45 rpm though. No way I can play that fast.
  23. Well, you chose an excellent guitar to start out with. If it helps, I'm pretty sure Gilmour used super-light strings. Like .08s. Which is why he's able to do those wicked bends. Also, practice the pentatonic scale in the session mode -- that's the mode he uses mostly, I think. The Fender trem was revolutionary in its day -- before that, the only real alternative was the Bigsby. Which could go down, but not up. Fender made modern rock n' roll possible. Jimi Hendrix wouldn't have existed without that trem. Nor Gilmour. The trick to the trem is that once you've got it set up the way you like it, never take off all of the strings. Just change them one string at a time.
  24. Not gonna happen. At least not with me. I get my mp3s where I can -- most I rip myself from my own CDs, so I usually rip them at a pretty high quality level. But they're going to get stepped down by EOF anyway, since it doesn't go higher than 256. And considering the quality of Rocksmith's modelization, I just can't see why it'd be worth the bother. I usually set wwise to 6. It's a decent compromise. There's no point in going to 8.
  25. I really only bought mine because it was one of the very few (Win7) models I could find here that gave me the OS in English and a matte screen. I hate glossy screens. But then I'm not a huge fan of staring at myself in the mirror all day. The fact that it runs Rocksmith really well is just a nice bonus.
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