-= Building a Guitar from Scratch with Absolutely No Woodworking Experience =-

Welcome to the CF Rocksmith 2014 Championship!

-= Week 610 =-

=> How and Why join the Championships?
=> Rocksmith 2014 Championships rules

Previous' week Winners are:

Lead:
- Beginner: @ AndreCardoso (97.57)
- Intermediate: @ Daz40 (92)
- Advanced: @ cacahuate51 (93.98)
- Masterclass: @ shaggy_malagy (98)
- God of Guitar: Leader after week 1 is @ shaggy_malagy (92), 3 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Rhythm:
- Beginner: @ AndreCardoso (77)
- Intermediate: @ Vodka (97.71)
- Advanced: @Mikson (94.8)
- Masterclass: @ cacahuate51 (98)
- God of Rhythm: Leader after week 1 is @ Vodka (75), 3 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

Bass:
- Beginner: @ Vodka (99)
- Intermediate: @ drand (100)
- Advanced: @Mikson (99)
- Masterclass: @ rosefog  (99.61)
- God of Bass: Leader after week 1 is @ cacahuate51 (97.7), 3 weeks left... KEEP ROCKING!!!

 

 

Congrats to all winners. Well done!

 

 

More great news. There are players to be promoted to higher rank this week.

- @ drand  is promoted to Advanced class in Bass path.

Congratulations and good luck with new challenges!
In case the above players do not accept promotion, please advise accordingly in the post so we can revert back to previous Class.
 

This week's songs are:

Lead Path:
Beginner: The Bangles - In Your Room (3*) (E Standard) selected by @ Hameron
Intermediate: Duran Duran - The Wild Boys (4) (E Standard) selected by @ Daz40
Advanced: Lordi - I'm So Excited (6.5) (E Standard) selected by @ Rodman
Advanced Bonus: Vulfpeck - Dean Town (7*) (E Standard) selected by @ rosefog
Masterclass: Gary Moore - Spanish Guitar (8) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
God of Guitar: Machine Head - Unto The Locust Full Album (10) (C# Drop B) selected by @ Nacholede  [Week 2 of 4]

Rhythm Path:
Beginner: The Bangles - In Your Room (3*) (E Standard) selected by Hameron
Intermediate: Lordi - I'm So Excited (5.5^) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Advanced: Gary Moore - Spanish Guitar (7.5^) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Masterclass: Gary Moore - Spanish Guitar (7.5) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
God of Rhythm: Machine Head - Unto The Locust Full Album (10) (C# Drop B) selected by Nacholede [Week 2 of 4]

Bass Path:
Beginner: The Bangles - In Your Room (3*) (E Standard) selected by Hameron
Intermediate: Duran Duran - The Wild Boys (4.5) (E Standard) selected by Daz40
Advanced: Lordi - I'm So Excited (6) (E Standard) selected by Rodman
Advanced Bonus: Gary Moore - Spanish Guitar (6) (E Standard) selected by Mikson
Masterclass: Vulfpeck - Dean Town (8) (E Standard) selected by rosefog
God of Bass: Machine Head - Unto The Locust Full Album (6) (C# Drop B) selected by Nacholede [Week 2 of 4]

(N) - difficulty rating
(N*) - highest difficulty rating for the class (promotion to higher class possible)
(N^) - difficulty rating higher than the highest for the class (promotion possible)

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You can submit your song suggestions for the championship here
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Share with us your opinion on this weeks songs difficulty scores (1-10).

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The process is smooth and there is a tutorial as well. If you are interested, send a personal message to Rodman.

3 hours ago, jimbobmccecil said:

 

 

You all probably know the main ones but sure I'll leave some suggestions here anyway

1. Walk Like An Egyptian

2. Manic Monday

 

 

Oh I didn't know they did walk the Egyptian!?  I feel like that's a song everyone knows of but yea I had no clue who sang it. No wonder I was like hmm this sounds different to the ones who made video killed the radio star. Noticed that's the bUGgles not the BANgles. Always good to see your top 5s

Have a blast at the concert!! 🤘

 

3 hours ago, jimbobmccecil said:

You all probably know the main ones but sure I'll leave some suggestions here anyway:

1. Walk Like An Egyptian

2. Manic Monday

3. Eternal Flame

4. Hazy Shade of Winter

5. Going Down to Liverpool

I loved the Bassist from Bangles 
for long time

almost missed being able to play Vulfpeck in a RSC week 

Dean Town was one of the songs I was working towards before I took a break from guitar, Some day I'm gonna polish it to 100% though

Vulfpeck(and everything connected to it) is always a great time for me

Random question, for you all. What are dial settings for your Guitar for Rocksmith. I know Rocksmith wants everything dialled up on your guitar to 11 but does everyone listen, especially when the volume knob is up to the max it just means more gain and I'm not 100% sure if Rocksmith sometimes can't pick things up?

Improvements

Little better

Hey Folks! It's been a while, and I haven't played much Rocksmith since I was last posting, but I'm gonna try to join in on this more regularly again.

Here are some lead scores:

Love me some Dean Town 😄

Hadn't heard this one in forever! Could probably get a bit better but this will do for now

3 hours ago, jasmith85 said:

Random question, for you all. What are dial settings for your Guitar for Rocksmith. I know Rocksmith wants everything dialled up on your guitar to 11 but does everyone listen, especially when the volume knob is up to the max it just means more gain and I'm not 100% sure if Rocksmith sometimes can't pick things up?

My guitar Is always on full but I will switch pickups for sound difference 
As for game sound config, I have It also full +10db 

I use an audio Interface so input on there is as high as I can get without clipping so 4 for guitar 6.5 for bass

As for mods I have the turn up to 11 on so a +6db boost to the game sound and I think an extra 6db tone boost also. 
EVERYTHING LOUD RIGHT 😆

 

This week's songs are difficult, but I enjoyed!

 

12 hours ago, jasmith85 said:

Random question, for you all. What are dial settings for your Guitar for Rocksmith. I know Rocksmith wants everything dialled up on your guitar to 11 but does everyone listen, especially when the volume knob is up to the max it just means more gain and I'm not 100% sure if Rocksmith sometimes can't pick things up?

Well - i don´t think reducing the gain can in any way improve the detection in RS. It´s a bit away the other way around.... as active pickups have a higher output and there are also differences from HB to SC and P90s, and also from brand to brand i had the problem that when CALIBRATING THE VOLUME IN RS (you get the option at the tuning screen) with an active pickup, then when i used one of my guitars with passives i got the message that my guitars volume was very low .... so i calibrated with that one then - and ever since use that calibration with all guitars and vol and tone always at max. IF you are used to reduce the gain then go to the lowest you are used to and do a CALIBRATION WITH THAT SETTING.

 

For myself volume and toneknobs are useless except for muting - the next guitar i am gonna build is gonna be completely pot-less, only a pickup-switch with the middle position is gonna be both pickus OFF. Pure unreduced outputs from the pickups and less less electronics (doesn´t matter cause that is like 2% of the building process and also fun, but hey) - i really wonder that guitar brands always use volume and toneknobs - any pot (and the ones used in guitars are quite the same used 70years ago) takes a way some output.... If i could just send someone to work instead of myself .... i´d start right monday morning and start to create a lovely 7-stringer .... that BM boybands have their A Std and alike tunings and i am not a fan of pitch shifting as i am not a fan of playing with headphones... sorry for the excourse .... i should really get back to Lordi now

Rod.

argh... messed up the end

 

 

 

One more run

Fighting with arpeggios

Really good attempt, only minor mistakes.

hmmm

 

 

 

@ jasmith85  I didnt answer cause really i usually dont pay attention to my guitar settings :v

but I do know, i personally set it up in rocksmith whenever i switch instruments (mostly when i switch gtr to bass) cause every guitar/bass has different gain levels  and it  usually doesnt  work properly for me if i dont / it doesnt take that long so i dont mind🤷‍♂️. Also for some reason i notice that if it starts missing alot of hit notes usually a restart helps but that might be a placebo.

I think i usually "callibrate it" at whatever gain level i have the guitar bass at that moment (i know its not supposed to be like that) but usually i leave space to go up and down probably like 7. That way if the guitar tone is too low i can usually just bump up the volume and it seems to detect the same/ i can hear myself ( i know i can change game settings volumes but this way is faster for me and doesnt seem to cause issues?). And usually on focusrite its also right before clipping /turning red, i dial it back a tad

better

 

 

 

better

 

 

 

Bass improvements

Oh yes, baby!!! ftl

 

 

 

New week is here!