Tiph
11-25-2007, 02:45 PM
I picked up Rock Band on the 21st and for the past few days I've noticed that my RB strat has been acting up. Yesterday the down-strum began fading in and out, not too frequently, but enough to notice.
At first I thought it was because of poor playing and getting used to the strat after playing the GHIII Les Paul, but today things definately turned for the worst. First the down-strum cut out, for a few moments at a time. I just sat it down for a while, or gave it a few shakes and got back to playing just fine. Then it eventually just cut out entirely.
Then I switched to only up-strumming, which worked for a while. I decided to stop and check on my down-strum in practice mode. Set up In Bloom on expert, and I wasn't able to strum a single note, neither up nor down.
Just to make sure something wasn't messed up with the USB ports, just for good measure, I reset the xbox, picked up the strat, and never made it out of the menus.
I could RMA it, like I probably should, but I'd rather fix it myself. Now, according to a few posts I've looked through, down-strumming failure seems to be attributed to the microswitch non-sense, but what about up-strumming?
What is the likelyhood that this is that problem? And what is the likelyhood of me being able to fix it with these instructions?
Any help would be appreciated!
Edit: After messing around with the guitar, and tilting it at very specific angles, I am able to get it to play a few notes, but with constant readjusting it continues to fail to register up or down strums.
At first I thought it was because of poor playing and getting used to the strat after playing the GHIII Les Paul, but today things definately turned for the worst. First the down-strum cut out, for a few moments at a time. I just sat it down for a while, or gave it a few shakes and got back to playing just fine. Then it eventually just cut out entirely.
Then I switched to only up-strumming, which worked for a while. I decided to stop and check on my down-strum in practice mode. Set up In Bloom on expert, and I wasn't able to strum a single note, neither up nor down.
Just to make sure something wasn't messed up with the USB ports, just for good measure, I reset the xbox, picked up the strat, and never made it out of the menus.
I could RMA it, like I probably should, but I'd rather fix it myself. Now, according to a few posts I've looked through, down-strumming failure seems to be attributed to the microswitch non-sense, but what about up-strumming?
What is the likelyhood that this is that problem? And what is the likelyhood of me being able to fix it with these instructions?
Any help would be appreciated!
Edit: After messing around with the guitar, and tilting it at very specific angles, I am able to get it to play a few notes, but with constant readjusting it continues to fail to register up or down strums.
