does the rocksmith cable do any processing?

[eqalidan]

I use the cable as a usb in for my computer, don't really feel like getting something else, just wondering if it did any processing of the audio or not.

[mr.tajny]

There is a small analog-digital audio interface in the cable.

[eqalidan]

Originally posted by mr.tajny:

There is a small analog-digital audio interface in the cable.

I mean beyond that, is there any boost/compression/anything that may effect tone beyond just getting the signal digital?

[eqalidan]

Originally posted by M4st0d0n:

Originally posted by eqalidan:

I mean beyond that, is there any boost/compression/anything that may effect tone beyond just getting the signal digital?

Nope all the rest is just software. In Rocksmith you can add compression boost and amp sims to the dry signal. Level normalization and noise gate is set during the calibration. It's also a HiZ jack for guitars, so it's expecting electric guitar signal level, you shouldnt use it as a line in.

What do you want to do?

My setup is more or less

guitar > moore ge200 > computer

the moore has a bit of a noise gate on it, a bit of compression so it boosts the sustain a bit and that's it at least on its clean setting I made for rocksmith, just some things that make rocksmith like my guitar a bit more, but because of how annoying it is to put ir's on it, I wanted to take the amp simed sound into a daw and use a better ir loader, my only concern was that the rocksmith cable may have been doing any other kind of effect, while I can directly line out from it to the computer, I would rather not touch the setup as much as I can.

I know what im doing isn't perfect, but the mooer to rocksmith tends to have it recognize what im doing a bit better, even if the game says im loud, and setup to daw has low enough latency for me not to notice or care, I was mostly concerned if there was something that colored the sound that I may not like or may need to account if I do like something.

[eqalidan]

Originally posted by M4st0d0n:

As a side note... Whatever you're feeding to Rocksmith, I assume it must be clean as high gain effects would mess up note detection. I still use a slight compression tho but it's a double edged sword. It's easier for tappings and solo and whatnot but Rocksmith detection really doesnt like sustain.

If you have a score with multiples of the same chords or notes to strum, be sure to mark silences between them. Same thing with some arpegios. Dont let notes ring if you want to clear score attack or guitarcade challenges. Playing legato is really important to learn tho, so dont focus too much on scoreboards it may create bad habits.

my guitar is kind of a piece of crap, it works, I love it, but a piece of crap that eats sustain, so anytime there is a longer note in rocksmith it will decided to just say 'nah, i'm not ringing out' I'm not sure if its rocksmith not being able to detect it, i'm not sure if it's just rock smith didn't like the pickup, but I replaced the former pickup with a 15k humbucker, the output of the mooer is also set fairly loud, and a bit of compression so when the sustain would fade away it doesn't fade out completely. I cant say its perfect, but for longer sustains it seems to not have a problem with picking it up now.

as for what im doing, its mostly playing rocksmith and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ around in a daw, not really trying to get them to work together, like I said, the main concern was the realtone effecting tone or processing it in a way that made the game like it better, but not necessarily what the tone would actually be... just so if I play though it in the daw and send the ir to the mooer i'm not sitting here chasing down a tone that no longer exists because I took what was effectively a pedal I didn't know about out of the chain.

got to ask, does your way require the real tone for rocksmith to treat the guitar like its using one?