Is My Guitar Broken?

[Karl Hungus]

My PS3 guitar works fine except when there's a long burst of fast notes. When I strum up and down it ALWAYS misses every 8th note or so. I don't think it's my playing because it happens EVERY time. Other than that it works fine. Any chance it could be lag? Seems likely that its a faulty strum bar. I'm tempted to get it replaced but after hearing the horror stories regarding exchanges I may just hold on to it. Any suggestions?

[Scarlet_Fire]

well i recently just got a second replacement for my 360 strat and i ordered it on monday, and got it today with the 2 day shipping. so i think the rush has passed for the most part and you might as well get a new guitar out of it while your warranty exists.

[Karl Hungus]

I'm more concerned that my guitar is not broken and it's just a lag issue. I also understand they send out refurbished replacements that are more likely to break. Hope yours works well.

[Scarlet_Fire]

likewise on the workin part, but i dunno i dont have a PS3 so i probably wouldnt be the best person to respond, i was just giving a suggestion cuz they were very expedient on the latest return. also try spraying some compressed air into it to see if it helps, it never did on my old crappy guitars, but it just might with you.

[Shockz0rz]

Hm, so I don't suck after all. I'm having this problem as well, actually, but everyone had just convinced me that it was a rhythm thing and I'd get better at it. But yeah, in long streams of notes, it always seems to miss at the exact--same--place.

Argh, and here I was hoping that, miracle of miracles, my guitar wasn't defective.

[rictus]

I'm having a similar issue with a replacement guitar on the 360--fast up/down strum sequences seem to miss at least one note in each sequence. I'm pretty sure it's not a lag issue, as otherwise timing is fine, and I don't seem to get missed/double strums in any other situation. I can't tell if it's just an intermittent strum problem that only happens with fast up/downstrum, or if my timing is just bad.

[VampirePsycho]

I just started having the sma problem last night. Its not a rythm issue its the strumer going out it will read a extra strum. I tested it for liek 2 hours last night on menues and stuff. Iam sending mine back when my box gets here. Mine is for the 360to so just send it back.

[Shockz0rz]

I just started having the sma problem last night. Its not a rythm issue its the strumer going out it will read a extra strum. I tested it for liek 2 hours last night on menues and stuff. Iam sending mine back when my box gets here. Mine is for the 360to so just send it back.

No, it's not the same issue. We're all aware of the double-strum problem. This is not it. It's not registering an extra strum--it's failing to register a strum at all. And the regularity of it (for me, at least, it tends to happen at the exact same point in almost every note stream) makes it look like it's a software problem.