Are the drums really supposed to be like this?

[Nyteflame]

Hi all and yes I know this is an extremely noob question.

I know from browsing the forums that yes the drums are difficult for a good number of people. After trying to play them for about 3 days I still suck. The weird thing though is that I can play the drums and get completion scores in practice mode of 90% plus, but only with the sound muted. With the sound on I can barely finish any of the "easy" songs.

So, this tells me that there is a sound lag, yet the guitar and mic are both synched fine. Only one of my friends can play the drums and he tells me that he basically compensate for the sound lag by not listening to the song at all and playing only by sight (a skill I obviously haven't mastered).

So my question is, does everyone else notice the sound lag between the actual physical sound you make by hitting the drum pad and the sound generated by the game or is my drum pad defective? I'm getting ready to send the guitar back as the strum bar is already broken after only three days (although they were three very intense days) of play and I am wondering if I should ship the drum pad back as well. Anyways, thanks for any responses and sorry this post was so long.

-Nyteflame

[muskett32]

Something is wrong. It should be the other way around. You should be able to play by the beat of the song. That's one of my favorite parts about the drums. There are several songs you can play mostly by just listening to the music. It almos becomes second nature.

[ClinTrojan]

you need to calibrate your tv....best thing to do is manually calibrate it.

Best thing to do is just stay loose and let the notes play themselve if you know what I mean, let your body get use to playing to where it becomes natural. Practice Practice Pratice!

If that dont work then maybe you just dont have rythm...

[Tarzanman]

Can't really answer your question without more information.

1. Are you on an X360 or a PS3?
2. Are you using a plasma, LCD, DLP, or CRT TV to play the game?
3. Are you running the sound straight to the TV or through a receiver of some kind?
4. What difficulty are you trying to play on? Which songs?
5. Have you calibrated the game for lag in the options menu?

While it is true that no controller in the game is 100% immediately responsive, narrowing down the possible causes will give us a better idea of what is going on.

[rictus]

Which console are you using, and which TV are you hooked up to?

This may not apply to you, but I had a similar issue with my Samsung DLP TV, which I bought a few years ago. The Samsung has video lag through all inputs except VGA, so I hooked up my Xbox 360 through the VGA port. But I was still having trouble with GHIII and RB.

I discovered that the Samsung has a built-in fixed audio delay on all inputs, presumably to compensate for the video lag. The problem is that it doesn't turn off this delay for the audio input associated with the VGA input, even though there's no video lag. So the audio is always out of sync with the video on the VGA input.

The solution was to run the audio from my 360 through my audio receiver instead of the TV.

I don't know if this kind of thing happens with any other TV, but it might be something to try...

[Rokkstar]

you need to calibrate your tv....best thing to do is manually calibrate it.

Best thing to do is just stay loose and let the notes play themselve if you know what I mean, let your body get use to playing to where it becomes natural. Practice Practice Pratice!

If that dont work then maybe you just dont have rythm...

It is a calibration problem but not via TV. It's ingame.

You said you're Guitar, and your Microphone work correctly, yet the drumset is lagging? You should go under options, I'm sure Harmonix wouldn't leave out an individual instrument calibration. From there you should do it. They have one in Guitar Hero 2, and they're the same company, so it's got to be on Rock Band.

[ClinTrojan]

It is a calibration problem but not via TV. It's ingame.

You said you're Guitar, and your Microphone work correctly, yet the drumset is lagging? You should go under options, I'm sure Harmonix wouldn't leave out an individual instrument calibration. From there you should do it. They have one in Guitar Hero 2, and they're the same company, so it's got to be on Rock Band.

If the guitar and mic is calibrated correctly and the drums isent then it is either the drumpad or the player.

[thrdeye]

If the guitar and mic is calibrated correctly and the drums isent then it is either the drumpad or the player.

exactly......