CantaloupeDog
11-20-2007, 06:17 PM
I've seen a few people posting wanting pictures of exactly whats wrong with the down strum and plenty asking if theres a home remedy, i posted this fix in another thread but i figured it best to make it its own so here ya go, try it at your own risk.
Ok so for any of you who wanted a picture of whats wrong with the down strum, heres a pic i uploaded:
http://community.rockband.com/file/pic/gallery/1511.jpg
Image 1: Top left
Image 2: Top Right
Image 3: Lower Right
Image 1 shows the guitar opened in its entirety, the problem area (strum bar underside) is circled in red)
Image 2 is a little bit closer with the problem area circled in red
Image 3 is as close as i could zoom in without gettin too fuzzy to show exactly
The green circle is the ear on the downstrum side of the strum bar, when you strum down that ear contacts with the prong (purple arrow points to it, kinda hidden under green circle) and pushes that into the other prong (yellow arrow points to it), what happens is the prong with the yellow arrow sits too far back from the one with the purple arrow so when you strum and it pushes, the 2 prongs never contact, now an easy solution to this is simply put something behind the prong labeled with the yellow arrow, in my case it was a piece of tape (marked by blue arrow). at the back of the prongs (its not labeled sorry) is where they connect to the shell of the guitar and by connect i mean its hot glued there, on my the hot glue job was done horribly as in that whole housing is able to move around, thus making it even harder for the 2 prongs to touch, as long as your housing is glued in securely, all you have to do is put a little something behind the prong labeled with the yellow arrow to move it a little closer to the other one, so that when you strum down they make contact (note: you dont want them touching when the strum bar is in its resting position or it'll just read it as your constantly down strumming). Hope that shed some light on it for some of you, and if you cant wait for your replacement to come, thats a "do it yourself" fix at least for now. Good Luck
Edit: BTW i dont suggest doing this unless your perfectly comfortable playing with it where as it has a possibility to make it so that they wont take your guitar back should you decide to return it, just be careful and hopefully have a little mechanical aptitude hehe that said Good Luck again!
Ok so for any of you who wanted a picture of whats wrong with the down strum, heres a pic i uploaded:
http://community.rockband.com/file/pic/gallery/1511.jpg
Image 1: Top left
Image 2: Top Right
Image 3: Lower Right
Image 1 shows the guitar opened in its entirety, the problem area (strum bar underside) is circled in red)
Image 2 is a little bit closer with the problem area circled in red
Image 3 is as close as i could zoom in without gettin too fuzzy to show exactly
The green circle is the ear on the downstrum side of the strum bar, when you strum down that ear contacts with the prong (purple arrow points to it, kinda hidden under green circle) and pushes that into the other prong (yellow arrow points to it), what happens is the prong with the yellow arrow sits too far back from the one with the purple arrow so when you strum and it pushes, the 2 prongs never contact, now an easy solution to this is simply put something behind the prong labeled with the yellow arrow, in my case it was a piece of tape (marked by blue arrow). at the back of the prongs (its not labeled sorry) is where they connect to the shell of the guitar and by connect i mean its hot glued there, on my the hot glue job was done horribly as in that whole housing is able to move around, thus making it even harder for the 2 prongs to touch, as long as your housing is glued in securely, all you have to do is put a little something behind the prong labeled with the yellow arrow to move it a little closer to the other one, so that when you strum down they make contact (note: you dont want them touching when the strum bar is in its resting position or it'll just read it as your constantly down strumming). Hope that shed some light on it for some of you, and if you cant wait for your replacement to come, thats a "do it yourself" fix at least for now. Good Luck
Edit: BTW i dont suggest doing this unless your perfectly comfortable playing with it where as it has a possibility to make it so that they wont take your guitar back should you decide to return it, just be careful and hopefully have a little mechanical aptitude hehe that said Good Luck again!
