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I specially ordered this one from a factory in China: http://s13.postimg.org/g372i8i53/klein_copy_Small.jpg I've always been curious about this guitar -- it's just as comfortable as advertised, but that also depends on how you're seated. I was a bit disappointed they didn't add in the contours to the body, but that's something I really enjoy doing, so I'll get to that later on. Received it a couple of weeks ago, let it sit a few days to let it acclimate before getting to work on the setup. They did a really great job with most of it -- the finish is flawless, the neck is excellent, frets are perfect, not a single deadspot, and intonation is perfect, probably the best of all my guitars. However, the headpiece was put on wrong-- they were trying to cover up the mistake they made drilling the access hole for the truss rod, and then they'd tried to cover THAT up by shimming the headpiece, which completely threw off the intonation. But the headpiece was easy to fix, and I just carved out the access hole a bit (but that gets hidden by the headpiece). Bridge isn't bad -- it's one of those Overlord of Music copies of Steinberger trems, which get a lot of negative reviews. But it has a lock for the trem, so I have it set as a hardtail anyway. I don't like the headpiece -- has those big fat locking screws - I prefer the sleeker double-ball headpiece. I might pick one up one day, but the price plus shipping would end up being 1/4 of what I paid for the guitar. Pickups are decent -- I like the humbucker in the bridge. The single-coils are a bit weak for my taste, I'll replace the neck pickup eventually with a stacked humbucker. The guitar itself cost me 50 euros! But the shipping (I suspect the manufacturer inflates this) cost another 100 euros -- and then Chronopost slaps a 21 euros 'services fee' on top of that. (Chronopost Is a SCAM!) Still, for less than 200 euros, this is one excellent guitar.

It's from a company called Cordes Express http://www.cordesexpress.com/ , looks like they also ship to other countries in Europe too. I just ordered from them, had my strings in a couple of days, and no tipping over machines required.

I bet that kid was really disappointed when he finally got a real guitar.

Sure it's not just a very easy song? I've seen official songs start off with the DD bar half full of orange, IIRC. No, every song. The starting difficulty seems to vary though. But official songs always start off at zero.

When a custom doesn't have DD, the riff repeater will display this as 0 anyway, even though the track is at full difficulty. You can also tell when there's no DD by looking at the arrangement at the top -- there won't be any colored bars. Another problem I have with the DDC is that Rocksmith doesn't recognize it properly and never starts a custom off at the lowest difficulty level (at least for me). I don't mean to denigrate the people who are working on the DDC tool -- I recognize it's a work in a progress, and I appreciate their effort.

You're better off getting a baritone guitar. You're going to need one sooner or later, might as well get one today... :-P But yeah, like flummi says, if you put thicker strings on, you'll have to have the nut sluts cut to fit -- that requires specialized tools. And you'll end up needing to tighten the truss rod. You can probably get away with putting on a set of 11s without reslotting the nut.

As much as I like to use the dynamic difficulty on official songs, I rarely use it on customs. The DDC is a great idea, but it's not 'human' enough to be able to pick out the notes that need to be played at each difficulty level. Instead, I use the riff repeater to slow everything down, and I slow it down as far as it can go at first (it doesn't really get much slower past 20 percent). And even on official songs, I'll switch to the riff repeater after I've played through the song a few times -- the riff repeater is where you REALLY learn the song.

It takes all of five seconds to create the preview audio, another two seconds to convert it in wwise. What's the big deal? Your idea of listening to the song isn't a bad one, but you can also do that while watching the noteway -- in LAS or the riff repeater. To me, the previews are the aural equivalent of the album art. If they're done right, you know immediately what kind of song you're dealing with.

You should be able to go into Avira and tell it to leave the toolkit alone. Apparently Avira is prone to false positives like this. For the songs not showing up, make sure you have the proper DLC in your folder. You need to have Cherub Rock installed for most songs. Also make sure you've downloaded the proper files -- you need the p.psarc files for PC and not the m.psarc files (Mac).

I bought one of those for my son, awesome little amp. I think his is the 30-watt version.

@@Daikano I've never tried to import MIDI -- does this import differently from GuitarPro files? To me it makes more sense to set the beat markers first -- once they're lined up, the notes should just fall into place, shouldn't they? Anyway, you're lucky to have so many sources for your customs. The songs I'm really interested in have no tabs available at all.

Yeah, I had problems with the first song I tried to add tone changes in. It took a couple of tries, but I eventually got it to work. Sometimes you have to repack the customs a couple of times with the Toolkit before it finally works.

It would definitely be nice to have control over this. I think you can fool Rocksmith into doing this by artificially extending the fret hand positions -- seems to me that the camera angle adjusts as the game is looking ahead. So when it's in, say, first position and there are notes coming up (in the same section) in the seventh position, the camera will draw back and flatten out. Maybe try experimenting with adding ghost notes?

It would definitely be nice to be able to work with a single integrated package -- I imagine the crew making the official DLC have some really nice tools to work with. That said, I'd prefer the package be integrated around EOF, which I think is pretty great software, despite it's limitations (I'm having a lot of difficulty with the color scheme of the interface these days, I just get too bleary eyes staring at the screen. But that's because my eyes are getting kind of old now....). I tend to use EOF and Guitarpro side-by-side. I think EOF is easier for plotting rhythmic notation and matching notes exactly to the music. But Guitarpro is easier for inputting notes and, of course, listening to the playback to make sure they're accurate. I also use EOF for the leading silence, for syncing the beats and for generating the preview track as well.

There are a couple steps to this. First you have to mark where each tone change comes in -- that includes at the very beginning of the song. Then you go to the list of tone names and mark one of those as the default tone. Usually that's the tone that starts the song, but it doesn't have to be -- maybe the song starts with a quick solo before shifting to the main guitar part. Make sure all of the tone names in EOF correspond to the names of the tones you load in the toolkit. And make sure you add the tones in the toolkit before adding the arrangements. When you load the arrangement, the toolkit will automatically place the tones in their slots.

Go the CDLC database and search for the titles -- there's a DD column. http://search.customsforge.com/ If a CDLC doesn't have DD, you can use the Dynamic Difficulty Creator (DDC) in the Rocksmith Toolkit.

The ES 335 is not a semi-acoustic, it's a semi-hollowbody electric. Which means it probably has a solid core through the middle, holding the pickups and bridge. You won't get much of an acoustic sound out of it, maybe a bit more than a regular electric, but not much. They're big guitars as cstewart points out -- I have a Hofner Verythin CT, which is similar although the body's thinner. One advantage of that larger guitar is that it forces you to sit up straight while playing! Worth checking out are the Epiphone Casino/Sorrento reissues -- they're hollowbody guitars (still not acoustic though). 300 pounds is a pretty decent budget -- tons of great guitars in that price range these days. Your best bet would be to go to a store, try out different guitars there. Or have a look around at used guitars, you can go higher end for less money.

I use it on my old xp desktop, which is where I make customs, so it made sense to put it there. Do you have an old computer lying around?

Ah, okay. I've used the OGG converter to convert from .wem to .ogg without wwise installed, but I hadn't tried converting from .ogg to .wem, which doesn't seem to work. @@plyPhon : What kind of computer do you have that makes wwise so huge? Wwise's installation files are about 250 MB, which is not much these days.

I think you can use the toolkit to do the conversion now, no need for Wwise. Have a look at the OGG tab.

Some files are just duds -- the charter who uploaded them didn't test them to make sure they work. It can take three or four tries packing a custom with the toolkit before you get a working file. The customs-building process is still a work in progress. Try a few other customs, make sure you've tried some by a few different people. Have a look in the comments too -- you can usually tell if a CDLC is working well or not from the comments people leave.

If it helps any, I don't think it's any easier to fix this in GPro. When I've had to do this in EOF, I've just corrected one of the instances, then copy and pasted it a zillion times until I'd fixed all the mistakes. Doing that in a separate difficulty level is a good idea, then it will be easier to just to erase the mistake passages in the original track and paste in the new stuff.

Your can get a 1/4" to 1/8" adaptor to run your guitar cable directly into the PC's mic jack. Although you should also be able to use the adaptor to run a lead from the amp's line out into the PC's line -in , this would let you use the amp as a preamp, which should work better. Just watch your levels (on the soundcard). I prefer using a dedicated audio soundcard, running the guitar through a mixer. But these days, you can get a breakout box that will do it all -- preamp + analog/digital conversion. It depends on what kind of sound quality you're looking for. Some of them go for pretty cheap, especially used.

Hmm... since no one else is complaining, I'm guessing this is a false alarm? I'm certain that Steam displayed a little popup labeled "Rocksmith updating ....%" (without any number next to the percent symbol).

If it has an X, it means there's no arrangement available for the path you're in -- if you're in the lead path, look in the rhythm or bass paths. Not all CDLCs have all the arrangements.