Trouble with Wireless Les Paul

[chirs3]

1) If this is the wrong forum, sorry.

2) Yes, I know the Les Paul is GH, not Rock Band. But for whatever it's worth, the only music game I play now is Rock Band 2. :P

Anyway, I've been using the GH2 Xplorer since forever, but the whammy and overdrive were starting to flake on me, so I went out and bought the wireless Les Paul from GH3. Everything's fine except the overdrive, and I'm wondering if it's just a piece of crap or if I can fix this or what.

I play sitting down, guitar resting on my knee, neck sticking out at a slightly upward angle. With the Xplorer, I had no problem jerking the neck up to trigger Star Power - it worked every time. With the Les Paul, though, I jerk the neck up and get nothing. The only way to trigger the Overdrive is to actually dip the neck down to a lower angle, THEN pull it up. It's as if when resting on my knee it's already over the Overdrive threshold, and I have to sort of reset it by lowering then raising it again, which is stupid.

So to anyone using the Les Paul - is this normal, or did I just get a bad unit? And is there any way to calibrate the angle at which Overdrive is triggered, either in Rock Band 2 or on the guitar itself?

[griffinmills]

Yeah I had to do that too, sometimes, on the Les Paul.

It seems to react more to sudden motion, like a potentiometer, rather than the "I am upright now so activate star power" that the Xplorer uses.

There are lots of threads about modding the guitar/sensors to do "what we want" but I know not of any calibration other than that. =(

[Phane7]

There's no way to mod the Les Paul sensor. It's an accellerometer chip mounted directly to the main circuit board. I've read of some solder tricks that you can do to decrease it's sensitivity a bit, but nothing that will change any kind of angle issues.