Rocksmith 2014 Championship Week 52

[MilkmanDan]

 

@@Nacholede -- I still can't get Drink to load up on Bass.  Hangs after tuning.  I deleted my original download and got it again from the DB page linked on page 1 here.

 

Should I just try a quick rebuild with the toolkit?

 

 

...And also, I forgot that B to C is a half-step transition, so it is just a half step sharp of BEAD(G) on a 5.  Depending on how it plays in C standard I may try to change it to B standard (I think EOF can handle an easy tuning change like that?) with the low tuning fix.

I will work on that! 

Try to repack it with the toolkit, if the problem still there, i will redo the bass arrangement

 

 

I can't tell if anyone else has the same issue, or just me.  Nooney said so earlier, but I thought maybe a redownload fixed hers?

 

Anyway, my couple of repack tries didn't work.

 

--EDIT--  I see that Kaijin has posted a score on it, so it must be working for some.  Although maybe he ran through DD remover.  I'll try that.

[MilkmanDan]

Running the song through DD Remover fixed it for me.  Here's a link:

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2GRHIrNcVrSSE1xbG9sMDZGUkk/view?usp=sharing

[NoonyDeloony]

Cheers @@MilkmanDan, as it turns out it still didn't work for me after clearing the old file , I'll sort it later and give it at least 1 go... Provided me and the kids don't get carried off in the tail end of this hurricane on the way to school! :(

[Rodman]

... Provided me and the kids don't get carried off in the tail end of this hurricane on the way to school! :(

OMG :wacko:

 

Storm warning :excl: over austria too, today wind up to 120km/h (which i doubt)

[MilkmanDan]

Score for Int Bass:

Fun song, but much easier to tune my 5 string up a half step than tune my 4 down that far.  Tone is a bit overly distorted/hot for my taste, but that would be fairly easily remedied with a tone switch.  However, there isn't much leading silence, so that it a bit harder to manage because the song tone kicks in JUST before the action starts, so you gotta be fast.

 

After doing this, I edited the file in EOF and set it up for BEAD tuning (with low tuning fix) on my 5 string.  Works OK, but there's some rapid octave jumps that go from open C to 7th fret of E# in the C standard tuning.  Those don't work so well as 1st fret of B to 8th fret of E...  I will probably adjust the chart so they go to 3rd fret of A (and occasionally down to 1st fret of A also) and include that in my own .psarc file as an alternate bass track.  BUT, it is really quite easy to tune up a half step and just play in C standard.

[MilkmanDan]

Just to be my usual longwinded self, here's my subjective difficulty ratings for all bass parts this week:

The One Piece Puzzle - Skyclad: Beg Bass
I think this is actually pretty tough for a truly "beginner" song.  Frethand moves around a fair bit, and quite a bit of string skipping, so I'd actually class it as a fairly easy Int song.  But that's just me, and it fits OK in the category here because it is the easiest bass part of the 4 songs this week.
Difficulty:  4

Drink - Alestorm: Int Bass
Frethand position, chord/root progression, and string skipping wise, this is easier than The One Piece Puzzle.  But it is close, and the speed plus slightly nonstandard strum/beat pattern makes this a bit more difficult overall.  Right in the middle of Int in my opinion.
Difficulty:  5

Zebra - John Butler Trio: Adv Bass
Lots of jumping around combined with an abundance of relatively easy tech stuff like slides and hammer ons that get tougher since they are in rapid and diverse succession.  Great fit for advanced, I'd say on the harder side of the Advanced spectrum (8) rather than easy (7), but somewhere in there.
Difficulty:  8

Metropolis Pt. 1 - Dream Theater: MC Bass

Like some of the other Dream Theater songs, there are stretches of not-too-hard followed by "wtf?!".  This time, the wtf moments are represented with sections of tapping.  Tapping is above my pay grade, sorta like slap/pop (which I suck at).  So, any song with tapping (or slap/pop) is pretty much a 10 in difficulty to me...  But this time, I think that the song is legitimately quite hard; not just hard-for-me, but plain old objectively hard.  So:
Difficulty: 10

[Kaijin]

Happy Birthday @@Joey!!!! :D

[Kaijin]

 

 

@@Nacholede -- I still can't get Drink to load up on Bass.  Hangs after tuning.  I deleted my original download and got it again from the DB page linked on page 1 here.

 

Should I just try a quick rebuild with the toolkit?

 

 

...And also, I forgot that B to C is a half-step transition, so it is just a half step sharp of BEAD(G) on a 5.  Depending on how it plays in C standard I may try to change it to B standard (I think EOF can handle an easy tuning change like that?) with the low tuning fix.

I will work on that! 

Try to repack it with the toolkit, if the problem still there, i will redo the bass arrangement

 

 

I can't tell if anyone else has the same issue, or just me.  Nooney said so earlier, but I thought maybe a redownload fixed hers?

 

Anyway, my couple of repack tries didn't work.

 

--EDIT--  I see that Kaijin has posted a score on it, so it must be working for some.  Although maybe he ran through DD remover.  I'll try that.

 

 

The runs I did on "Drink" were on Saturday, I haven't tried the new file yet, so I don't know if the same happens with me too.

It's difficult for me to tune my guitar so low for a number of reasons, I was pretty satisfied to be able to do that when I played all 3 arrangements of the song (on the new file I think rhythm is gone, right?), but I'll try again tonight just for the bass and I'll see what happens. I have the new file and the one you posted after removing the DD, I'll post what happens after I tested both.

[Mortalo]

Happy birthday @@Joey. No surprise that I stepped into your shoes :D

[Rodman]

Happy BD, Joey!

[NoonyDeloony]

Happy birthday @@Joey and @@Mortalo :) (I too am an October Birthday participant :).) We're very creative folk us Octobians :)

[Motive]

It awesome funny so much birthday in october :) Happy birthday @@Joey and @@Mortalo. And Noony too, we missed your happy day, sorry :(

[fripponomic]

Two birthdays today?

then also from me happy birthday @@Joey and @@Mortalo

[NoonyDeloony]

That's alright @ :) I'm old so they're not so significant anymore, just a bit depressing :)

[NoonyDeloony]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=329744216Booo 1 note off of hitting the rocksmith recommends thing ... typical  :rolleyes:

[Kaijin]

Sorry @@Mortalo, I didn't notice the date on your profile, my bad.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

[Kaijin]

Well, I've seen some members posting videos of their playthrough's and since I'm recording all the time that I play, despite that I play emulated, here's the link of the video I recorded yesterday of my run on Skyclad...

 

http://youtu.be/De4JRws4cEM

[Rodman]

@Mortalo: HAPPY BD!!!!!!!

[NoonyDeloony]

Well, I've seen some members posting videos of their playthrough's and since I'm recording all the time that I play, despite that I play emulated, here's the link of the video I recorded yesterday of my run on Skyclad...

 

http://youtu.be/De4JRws4cEM

Nice! Where did you get the nifty fretboard @@Kaijin? I could really use something like that to get me more acquainted with the notes on the neck of my bass :)

[Kaijin]

That's a custom inlay, but it has some errors on some frets, although I've been using this and the guitar inlay for so long that I don't even notice the errors anymore. In the meantime I asked the creator of the inlays if he could correct the errors, he told me that he was very busy, but he would try to do it as soon as possible.

 

If you want to use the ones I have, here's the link for the bass inlay and this one for the guitar inlay

 

Those are .psarc files, you just copy them to the "dlc" folder of RS2014 (I have a subfolder called "inlays", but that's just to keep the files organized), run the game, go to the path screen, select to change the inlay and it should be the 1st in the list "1-Bass Notes"... I created the inlays with the prefix "1-" so it would be much easier to change between the bass and guitar inlays, this way both are the 1st inlays shown on the inlay list screen.

[NoonyDeloony]

Great, thanks @@Kaijin :)

[Kaijin]

Your welcome @@NoonyDeloony :)

[Joey]

Thank you all for birthday wishes. And happy birthday to you @@Mortalo

 

 

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[MilkmanDan]

Happy birthday to @@Mortalo and @@Joey -- must have been some guitar god vibes in the air on October 21st to land the birthday of 2 championship organizers!

 

\m/ :lol: \m/

[then3verend]

Happy Birthday @@Joey and @@Mortalo