PS3 replacement guitar strumming

[sa1212]

The guitar's upstrum/downstrum seems to work great, but when you have a a bunch of quick notes (like 1/32 notes) the alternating upstrum/downstrum doesn't seem to work? It keeps on registering as if I am missing. Anyone else have this problem and if so do you think it is worth sending back? Thanks for your opinion.

[Warrior_LM]

I'm having the same problem with my replacement and my older strum bar worked great the only problem I had was with deploying Overdrive (on old guitar). I'm really starting to hate this guitar because if the feel of the strum bar. I think I'm going to send my replacement back after Christmas.

[sa1212]

anyone else having this problem with the alternating strumming?

[Kallidoan]

anyone else having this problem with the alternating strumming?
I am having the same problem with the original and replacement guitar. The only difference is that the replacement guitar is doing it less.

I am used to playing GH1 and 2. Is there a special trick that I need to do?

[sa1212]

I am new to the whole guitar game playing world, so I am not sure. Is the alternating strum working for anyone on the Strat? Do you strum very lightly on the strum bar for this to work? Much help would be appreciated.

[conscience k]

I was wondering if anyone else had the same problems.

I got my replacement 360 guitar last week (the old one wouldn't strum down). I can strum down now, but when I alternate or press down repeatedly it won't always register. I've found that when I alternate, if I'm very careful to press all the way down then it'll work more often, but I'm still missing notes that I shouldn't be.

Will probably send in a new request after they acknowledge receipt of my old guitar.

[sa1212]

Yeah I don't know if it something I am doing or if it is the guitar. I am trying to decide if I should get another replacement.

[conscience k]

well get this, sa1212. after my last post I went back to playing the game and my slightly noticeable problem quickly grew. looks like my downstrum is kaput..

[sa1212]

Sorry to hear that man. Good luck with your next replacement. Did your downstrum die from alternating the strum or just alot of quick downstrums?

[x-scythe-x]

i dont thinks its us thats missing the notes, cause if all of us can play hard and expert GH, our timing is pretty dam good, and for me to fail a song because my strums wotn register when i try to hit consective notes...is def a guitar problem its one thing if its a couple peopel complaining its another if its the majority that own the game and know they can play better on hard or expert...

i jsut play dums now cause i jsut get to aggrevated with my guitar, i have to do songs on medium jsut so the song is slow enough to register a strum its pretty badi hope the replacement fixes this

[Telecaster]

I too just got my replacement today, four days after I requested it (so much for next day air), and I am having a problem with the alternating strums. On songs like GGAHT (solo 2, there is a part where theres a few 1/32 notes) it is particularly annoying.

I agree with whoever said it above; we are all expert/hard guitarists and our timing is likely not the issue. I just want my Strat guitar to be better than the Gibson I got with Guitar Hero... like in real life :( Why, Harmonix, why can't you just make the strum bar different!?!?

[psDragon]

I play on expert on gh3 and I'm positive the strum bar sucks on the Strat. If you goto practice mode and just go up and down really fast you see that sometimes like on the 8th or 9th updown it misses completely. Like you have strumed it but it doesnt show. There is still a huge problem with the hardware.

[x-scythe-x]

do the replacements fix this or no? should i bother sending it in?

[JWG]

do the replacements fix this or no? should i bother sending it in?


I don't think they do in all cases. I can't say for sure as my 3rd guitar hasn't been played enough and I've not determined root cause (TV calibration, guitar, crappy player :p).

I tend to believe that it's the guitar based on how my original guitar worked when the downstrum chose to work. But I'm still evaluating.