Microphone Trick/Cheat,works?

[soulCatchers]

Title says it all
How about we put our mic at the speaker of the TV
Will i 90-100% it?
Could some one test for me?
Thanks
PSN:soulCatchers

[PikkuKaiShinto]

Someone made a topic like this before. And I knew the results before I even tested.
On Easy, it would work fine but not 100%.
Medium, worse than Easy.
Hard, Barely live.
Expert, dont even bother.

[Highlandlassie1]

And what would be the point of this?

The singing is the only TRUE aspect of rock and roll the game offers.

Maybe you should just listen to music instead of playing rockband.

Unless you are just a cheater, and no one like cheaters.

[NoD]

What's the point - Higher scores only thing I can think of, what fun is that.
While your at it see if you can get 4 people on each guitar, 4 on one drum a let everyone pick a color, you could has some awesome scores.

[PikkuKaiShinto]

What's the point - Higher scores only thing I can think of, what fun is that.
While your at it see if you can get 4 people on each guitar, 4 on one drum a let everyone pick a color, you could has some awesome scores.

Actually me and a friend mad e a joke about that for GHIII long ago:

Me: Damn it, my fingers are faster than my strumming hand. I cant beat Through Fire!
Friend: I can strum for you while you use 2 hands on the fret.

We never tried it (never wanted to), but it would be funny as hell to watch.

[eachann]

The point (other than being a cheater) would be so that people like me who can't or who hate to sing, and who don't have anybody locally to play BWT with could still enjoy that part of the game. I want to play BWT badly, but can't unless I sing... and I can only do that when I'm home alone or I may find myself in divorce court :P I'm a lousy singer. I've never tried putting the mic up to the TV, but ... it's not a bad idea.. Why doesn't it work? If the actual singer can't sing the song, how are we supposed to.. haha :)

Now if only they could get online BWT patched in.. then the only point would be to be a cheater.

[PikkuKaiShinto]

The point (other than being a cheater) would be so that people like me who can't or who hate to sing, and who don't have anybody locally to play BWT with could still enjoy that part of the game. I want to play BWT badly, but can't unless I sing... and I can only do that when I'm home alone or I may find myself in divorce court :P I'm a lousy singer. I've never tried putting the mic up to the TV, but ... it's not a bad idea.. Why doesn't it work? If the actual singer can't sing the song, how are we supposed to.. haha :)

Now if only they could get online BWT patched in.. then the only point would be to be a cheater.

Theres no excuse to the "I dont want to sing" comment though. If you dont want to sing, then dont lol.
As for those who cant sing, you can always try humming which some can do... unless youre tone deaf.
Also you talk about divorce... get your wife/husband/killer zombie/etc to sing while you play to play BWT. When theyre not around (aka your alone comment) THEN sing and play and if you suck no one will hear it but you.
Problem solved!

[AoR PhillyTC]

The noise of the entire song, not just the vocals, comes through the speakers buddy, so your mic will pick up all the instruments as well, causing horrible failures. I found this out on accident while trying to sing while drumming. The mic sensitivity was jacked up, and the TV was loud. My vocals were all over the place due to TV feedback. It got to the point where it caused ringing. For the record, I was not trying to use the TV to sing for me. I just like to play the game loud, and did not take this into consideration when I started. After I realized that I am not coordinated enough to drum and sing, even on easy, simultaneously, I gave up, and just went back to my solo drum tour.

[PikkuKaiShinto]

The noise of the entire song, not just the vocals, comes through the speakers buddy, so your mic will pick up all the instruments as well, causing horrible failures. I found this out on accident while trying to sing while drumming. The mic sensitivity was jacked up, and the TV was loud. My vocals were all over the place due to TV feedback. It got to the point where it caused ringing. For the record, I was not trying to use the TV to sing for me. I just like to play the game loud, and did not take this into consideration when I started. After I realized that I am not coordinated enough to drum and sing, even on easy, simultaneously, I gave up, and just went back to my solo drum tour.

Yeah, I gave up on that because of all of those things, plus the sound from the drum set itself.
Songs I know I can get 99% or something on, I get 92% or less... maybe almost fail if on a high difficulty. The mic picks up EVERYthing due to the sensitivity I have to put it to (default it too low for me).

[Highlandlassie1]

The point (other than being a cheater) would be so that people like me who can't or who hate to sing, and who don't have anybody locally to play BWT with could still enjoy that part of the game. I want to play BWT badly, but can't unless I sing... and I can only do that when I'm home alone or I may find myself in divorce court :P I'm a lousy singer. I've never tried putting the mic up to the TV, but ... it's not a bad idea.. Why doesn't it work? If the actual singer can't sing the song, how are we supposed to.. haha :)

Now if only they could get online BWT patched in.. then the only point would be to be a cheater.

Seriously, this game is designed for multiplayer.
The fun multiples exponentially with every player added.

Get a few friends over, some food, some alcohol, I guarantee that someone will pick up that mic ,and start belting them out.

Get your wife, and some of her friends over.

This game is a REASON to party!

Playing this game alone is not that much fun.

[Zakuen]

Not everyone has the friends, or the friends who have the time to come over and play. Everyone I know is busy working during the week, and I teach martial arts almost every week night. It's just not possible. Most of my friends need the weekend to do other things, grocery shopping, cleaning, and whatever other responsibilities they may have, so it's just not always possible. If there were an online world tour, it would be great, we could play after I get home from karate for an hour or so, but for people to drive to my house and play, not going to happen unfortunately. As it is when I do have people over its usually different people, so the band line up is always changing and we're starting BWT over so I never get past unlocking roadies, and have only recently gotten the jet finally.

I also want to play BWT, and have tried it solo, but the fact is the mic seems unreliable when using the headset. I've yelled my ass off to use override using the headset and still not had it go off, and I can't hold a mic and play at the same time. BWT adds randomness to the game and gives you more goals in my opinion, and its fun when you have mystery sets where you don't know whats coming up. If there was a solo or online BWT, it'd be great, but since there isn't I might have to try this so I can enjoy more of the BWT.

[PikkuKaiShinto]

Not everyone has the friends, or the friends who have the time to come over and play. Everyone I know is busy working during the week, and I teach martial arts almost every week night. It's just not possible. Most of my friends need the weekend to do other things, grocery shopping, cleaning, and whatever other responsibilities they may have, so it's just not always possible. If there were an online world tour, it would be great, we could play after I get home from karate for an hour or so, but for people to drive to my house and play, not going to happen unfortunately. As it is when I do have people over its usually different people, so the band line up is always changing and we're starting BWT over so I never get past unlocking roadies, and have only recently gotten the jet finally.

I also want to play BWT, and have tried it solo, but the fact is the mic seems unreliable when using the headset. I've yelled my ass off to use override using the headset and still not had it go off, and I can't hold a mic and play at the same time. BWT adds randomness to the game and gives you more goals in my opinion, and its fun when you have mystery sets where you don't know whats coming up. If there was a solo or online BWT, it'd be great, but since there isn't I might have to try this so I can enjoy more of the BWT.

Right now I only got 3 but... thats why you should have 4 bands.
One where you can be leader but on all... hm... actually 3 is all you need (Guitar/Bass is the same). But yeah 3 bands with you as leader on Guitar/Drums/Mic that way whenever whoever comes over and want to play whatever instrument, you go to the band with the instrument you would be playing... you shouldnt have trouble gettng past anything then.

[NGW]

A friend and I tried it just to see if it worked....

Didn't turn out all that great. *shrug*

[NoD]

The point (other than being a cheater) would be so that people like me who can't or who hate to sing, and who don't have anybody locally to play BWT with could still enjoy that part of the game. I want to play BWT badly, but can't unless I sing... and I can only do that when I'm home alone or I may find myself in divorce court :P I'm a lousy singer. I've never tried putting the mic up to the TV, but ... it's not a bad idea.. Why doesn't it work? If the actual singer can't sing the song, how are we supposed to.. haha :)

Now if only they could get online BWT patched in.. then the only point would be to be a cheater.


Oh cool, I didnt think about that. I was think you were just looking for a way to get high scores on expert.

Record yourself in practice mode, do it on one section at a time when you get 100% save it, then over again each section. Go to world tour and put your recording by the mic. Try that.

[eachann]

I hate that sentiment that all you have to do is have friends over whenever, and that is a great reason to not allow online BWT. That is insulting and selfish and something that people who have people who come to their house to play or who live with people who play on a regular basis say because they don't have a clue. When you're 13 it's perfectly normal to invite your friends over to play video games. When you're 35 it really isn't. Maybe it is if you have a lot of gamer friends, but for MOST adults that just isn't the norm. My friends aren't interested in coming over and playing video games. Watching the SuperBowl.. yes. Celebrating a holiday and drinking some Beer... Yes. Playing a video game? No. If anybody does come over and give Rock Band a try it's just once, not a regular occurance. And my wife has zero intrest in playing the game. I bought the game because *I* like to play.

Would the game be a lot more fun if I had a regular crowd to play multi-player with? OF COURSE IT WOULD. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to at least experience the whole game without that. Having people locally to play with should be a BONUS, but not having that shouldn't disallow me from even playing the game.

There is absolutely no reason they couldn't have allowed me to form a band with just one human player for the sake of BWT. I'd love to have more, but it's not an option for me.... so instead i'm forced to try to sing and play guitar if I want to play BWT at all and it ruins the game for me. There may be a million and one technical reasons why there isn't any online BWT, but there isn't any reason why it should be impossible to have a band myself. What they should've done is given bonus incentives for having more players in your band. You already DO get a lot more points plus overdrive multipliers if you have more people in your band... they could also have given extra fans or an achievment for finishing BWT with 4 players or something. I'd be cool with any of that, I just want to be able to experience one of the most fun parts of the game.

[Icemage]

I hate that sentiment that all you have to do is have friends over whenever, and that is a great reason to not allow online BWT. That is insulting and selfish and something that people who have people who come to their house to play or who live with people who play on a regular basis say because they don't have a clue. When you're 13 it's perfectly normal to invite your friends over to play video games. When you're 35 it really isn't. Maybe it is if you have a lot of gamer friends, but for MOST adults that just isn't the norm. My friends aren't interested in coming over and playing video games. Watching the SuperBowl.. yes. Celebrating a holiday and drinking some Beer... Yes. Playing a video game? No. If anybody does come over and give Rock Band a try it's just once, not a regular occurance. And my wife has zero intrest in playing the game. I bought the game because *I* like to play.

Would the game be a lot more fun if I had a regular crowd to play multi-player with? OF COURSE IT WOULD. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't be able to at least experience the whole game without that. Having people locally to play with should be a BONUS, but not having that shouldn't disallow me from even playing the game.

There is absolutely no reason they couldn't have allowed me to form a band with just one human player for the sake of BWT. I'd love to have more, but it's not an option for me.... so instead i'm forced to try to sing and play guitar if I want to play BWT at all and it ruins the game for me. There may be a million and one technical reasons why there isn't any online BWT, but there isn't any reason why it should be impossible to have a band myself. What they should've done is given bonus incentives for having more players in your band. You already DO get a lot more points plus overdrive multipliers if you have more people in your band... they could also have given extra fans or an achievment for finishing BWT with 4 players or something. I'd be cool with any of that, I just want to be able to experience one of the most fun parts of the game.
I agree with this post 100%.

I'm a pretty capable vocals player (#3 on PS3 leaderboard at 10.6 million career points), but I don't have anyone handy who can handle anything above Medium with any finesse whatsoever. Meanwhile I'm scoring Flawless or 99% on a majority of songs.

Why should I be penalized from playing part of the game (or forced to do something I'm bad at, like playing guitar or drums)?

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In any case, getting back to the original topic, you might squeak by on Easy or maybe even Medium on a few songs, but you won't get much farther than that. Hard or Expert vocals are much too picky for this trick to work - not even for "talky parts".

[Huaracocha]

I'd like to find a way to do this to be able to play Band World Tour solo since there is no way I can sing while doing guitar or drums. Well actually there's no way I can sing full stop but that's another story.

I'm thinking if you had your system rigged up with surround sound you could send the vocals through a particular channel / speaker and do it that way but I don't have surround atm to try it. Using standard TV speakers there is too much coming through from the other instruments for it to work well.

I'm curious if anyone has managed to get this working well?


(Sorry to necro this thread but it's the most recent one I can find on this topic under search)

[siee]

No but on Thrasher, Blinded by Fear, DOA and some Pixies song you can cheat.

I call it the "Carpet FC", just rub that microphone against your clothes or carpet, et voila.

[TheBlueFalcon]

I haven't taken much notice of how the tracks are mixed in 5.1, but there may be a possible way to "isolate" the vocals to a certain extent if you are using a surround sound amplifier/receiver. You could unplug all but the centre speaker, which I'm guessing would improve things. You could also try the DSP modes on the amplifier/receiver, as this may take out even more of the instruments from the centre channel.

[Han Daimond]

Claudio from Coheed And Cambria scored 84% on Expert on his own song (Welcome Home), so, what's the point on cheating?

[Viracocha]

Claudio from Coheed And Cambria scored 84% on Expert on his own song (Welcome Home), so, what's the point on cheating?

So those without a friend or friends to play with regularly can enjoy BWT, the main game mode.

[rikuansem13]

Yeah... thats pointless and could cause you to lose a really hard song you were FC'ing, or lose ur friends. either way, i'd skip it.