online multiplayer microphone/singing

[jimbronie]

while playing multiplayer online, i cannot hear the other player's voice who is suppose to be singing, and vice versa, i would be able to sing through my microphone and hear myself through the tv, but other players didnt hear me.

is this correct or do i have the wrong setting?

[RonRicoFSU]

hit the button on the mic, and then you can let the people hear you thru online

[jimbronie]

forgive me for being dull, but theres a button on the microphone itself? or do you mean the ps3 controller?

[trident5]

On the PS3, there's not a way to transmit voice. XBOX Live can though.

[jimbronie]

thanks for the help! i will stop trying now!

[eachann]

Correct me if i'm wrong, but I thought holding the button while you sing/talk in the mic made it so that your voice went into the voice/chat INSTEAD of into the game... meaning yea your band could hear you sing, but you wouldn't get getting any credit for your singing in the game. I thought it was an either/or thing.. either you're singing to the game, or talking to your band...

Unfortunately you can't hear your singer, you can't hear your drummers drum fills, etc... all you hear is your own play and the computer filling in the rest. Kind of lame actually considering that when Rock Band was announced everybody was wondering how they'd get voice, etc, working online with lag and the devs said they had come up with an ingenious method of getting around the lag problem. Turns out their ingenious idea was just to not send it... guess you don't have to worry about lag if you aren't sending anything.

[vsTerminus]

You're not supposed to hear voice. On the Xbox 360 you can hold either trigger on a 360 controller and your voice will be sent, but you'll get the same results as you do when you talk to your friends on Halo 3 or any other game. There is a delay of .5-2 seconds between when you start talking and when everyone else hears you.

So if you could hear the singer, they would be out of sync.
Which is also why when other people sing along on their headsets during the song, they are behind by a little bit.

Truth be told, home internet connections just are not fast enough (uploading) to produce realtime voice along with the other data the game sends.

[dogless]

You're not supposed to hear voice. On the Xbox 360 you can hold either trigger on a 360 controller and your voice will be sent, but you'll get the same results as you do when you talk to your friends on Halo 3 or any other game. There is a delay of .5-2 seconds between when you start talking and when everyone else hears you.

So if you could hear the singer, they would be out of sync.
Which is also why when other people sing along on their headsets during the song, they are behind by a little bit.

Truth be told, home internet connections just are not fast enough (uploading) to produce realtime voice along with the other data the game sends.






not sure why this wouldnt work. people make phone calls through the internet/cable lines all the time dont they with all these VOIP phone companies right? ive never used a VOIP phone so i dont know if everyones conversation is 3-5 seonds delayed before you hear what they say. shoulda asked Vonage or Comcast for some help

[vsTerminus]

Yea, Vonage uses VOIP calling, and Skype does the same thing, but it uses *all* of your bandwidth just trying to keep the conversation clear. With VOIP phones, you cannot use your internet (with any sort of quality) while on the phone, simply because it uses so much upload.

Rock Band is constantly streaming information back and forth every time there a player presses a button, moves his whammy bar, turns on star power, whatever. The average home connection can't handle all that + a realtime chat.

Also, Skype has a lag. It's close to realtime, but there's a delay there too.