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folkeye
09-10-2009, 11:32 AM
Okay this might sound like a strange one but I've had it happen more than once, on various instruments. Does the GHWT guitar have a massive wireless signal that might interfere with the RB2 instruments?

It seems more often then none that when it's being played side by side the RB2 instruments start dropping, missing, and even 'hitting' notes when nothing is there (some of the symptoms you might get when low on batteries, which none are). It even started with the drums and a Peak Guitar last night, both of which were plugged in. The GHWT would play no problem, the other two were continously dropping.

So theory got tested, I bombed out a song 3 times since I couldn't hit the notes, drop, drop, drop (a friend was on bass with GHWT guitar) we dropped out, went into quickplay and I picked the same song that I couldn't get through, told him I was going to play by myself, and had NO problems. He plugged back in, and the issue came back.

I've tried keeping the dongles far apart (one in the PS3 the other in the splitter on the floor) but it still seems the 'streams are getting crossed' and confusing eachother. Is this anything anybody else has experienced?

DaemonKnight
09-11-2009, 01:20 AM
By "dropping", do you mean dropping notes, or losing their connection?

Every instrument is different. If you have calibrated for one guitar, there is no guarantee that any other instrument will work with the calibration. When my wife and I both play guitar together, she is on the GH3 Les Paul that I calibrate to. I play on a RB1 strat when we play together, and I have to hit extremely early to get the note.

folkeye
09-11-2009, 11:27 AM
Well, I can be playing along just fine and then its almost like you lose calibration. Your timing is good, there's big fat simple notes to hit and all goes out of whack. Recalibrating didn't help at all.

Unfortunately the solution is to not use that guitar if I can't figure it out, mostly simple enough except thats the one I toss to a friend since I think he'll break mine. LOL.

Best example, using a remote to turn on a TV and the garage door opens. Right action, wrong result.

DaemonKnight
09-11-2009, 10:03 PM
So the instrument that is dropping notes is NOT the instrument you calibrate with, right?

No matter what you do, using two different types of instruments will almost always cause some calibration issues with the instrument you don't calibrate with. This is because each design of instrument has it's own slight "lag" as the information travels through the hardware, and then to the console through either the wire, or that design's wireless connection. I calibrate with my GH3 Les Paul. My RB1 strat and my GHWT drums are always a tad off of calibration - my strat you have to hit a little early, and my drums you have to hit a tad late.