latency

[DeadlyPoison]

on my crt i confirmed it,rb1 drums are perfect at 0 but ions need 10 ms for it to be correct.
do i have a defective ion controller?

[skyttskytt]

Really? Did you even read your other thread asking about getting them?

Having to calibrate doesn't mean you have bad or faulty hardware

[DeadlyPoison]

why would ions take longer if their wired

[skyttskytt]

Because the circuitry is different than the stock kits? They're 2 completely different pieces of electronics. They're going to process signals at a different rate.

[DeadlyPoison]

are yours like that

[XXXela]

If I were you, I'd try playing a song with the Ion kit at 0ms. If the lag isn't noticeable, consider it human error, let it go, and have fun.

But if it's noticeable, and worse yet, affects your score... I dunno, panic and scream.

[skyttskytt]

It doesn't matter. Yours are, so calibrate and be done with it. Having to calibrate shouldn't ruin your life. I don't even have a stock kit anymore to compare it to my IONs.

[mayhem117]

If you are manually calibrating there is a lot of room for human error. I suggest autocalibrating with a RB2 guitar on your CRT tv and then doing the same on your HDTV (Lego Rock Band is the only RB game that will give me consistent times within 1ms of each other for both audio and video).

For example, on my crt tv the guitar gave me a consistent video reading of -14ms. Since all CRT tvs should be at 0ms I will need to add a +14 to that number for anything else I autocalibrate under that guitar. For my HDTV The guitar ended up giving me 36ms for video so I added 14 onto that and I got 50ms (Which also coincidentally falls in line with the recommended video setting for LCD type 2 in the manual). It feels pretty decent when I play, kind of awkward when playing by myself but it feels natural when playing in a full band.

I would also do the audio as well. That can throw you off more than you think. You can use the same method above for that as well and I would try turning dolby digital on and off when calibrating to see what your lowest number is

[DeadlyPoison]

10 is correct

[davidshek]

For example, on my crt tv the guitar gave me a consistent video reading of -14ms. Since all CRT tvs should be at 0ms I will need to add a +14 to that number for anything else I autocalibrate under that guitar. For my HDTV The guitar ended up giving me 36ms for video so I added 14 onto that and I got 50ms

Uh, no. Like I told you in the other thread where you said this, that's absolutely wrong. You can't take the calibration numbers from one TV and use it to "adjust" the calibration on another TV.

If you used the auto-calibration feature of the RB2 Strat on your HDTV and it gave you 36ms for video, then you should use...wait for it...36ms for video.