E string not detecting properly

[Shats Bassoon]

Hey guys, so after a while of searching around trying to get rocksmith 2014 to work with windows 8.1 64 bit, I finally got this working... somewhat.

Not sure if it's just me or what the tuner is EXTREAMLY touchy and whenever I try tuning everything goes all out of wack. I strum a string and it goes crazy between +15 and -15 and somehow still says it's fine and continues on to tune the next string which seems kind of odd to me.

Also when I'm playing, my low E string doesn't work right, open strings generally work but if I'm playing any notes where I have to press on the fret board for that string it gets all screwed up. It misses every not or propts an arrow saying i'm to low or to high on the fretboard even though I'm pressing down on the correct fret.

Doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever and It's getting extreamly irritating that I bought this game when it first released and still haven't even been able to play it -__- If anyone could help me out here I would REALLY appreciate it. Oh, and I'm not sure if this really matters very much but I'm playing with bass guitar not a 6 string.

[wraith7201]

The tuner is going to fluctuate some, the frequency of the string changes from the start of the note, through the end of the sustain. Plus, there are harmonic frequencies that will cause the tuner to fluctuate a bit.

For the low E string, either the intonation is off on your guitar, or you are pressing the string way too hard. Because that's the heaviest string, people will often press too hard when they're first starting to learn. You should be holding the string just hard enough to get a clear note.

[Shats Bassoon]

thanks for the advice but I don't think either of those is the problem. I've used my guitar for the original rocksmith and it worked just fine and I just tried to put less pressure on the string and that isn't working for me either. Could it just be some issue with with playing the game on windows 8.1?

When I was playing the original rocksmith that was back when my computer was running windows 7 and I never really had any issues. I'm going to install it again with windows 8 and see if it still works or not.

[Shats Bassoon]

already tried that too :/

[Shats Bassoon]

Lol I'm just about to give up on this game. It reset to 17 like you were saying so I changed it after the game loaded and it still won't work.

just for the hell of it I tried playing a lower note than the note it wanted me to play and then it would work. So if it wants me to play a note on the 5th fret and I play that note it won't work, if I play the note on the 4th it will recognize it at the 5th for some reason.

I tuning the guitar differently (even though the game says it's tuned right) and it either works the way I was just talking about or not at all -__-

[Buck]

Raising the level of the Real Tone cable is not going to help anything. Leave that alone. Rocksmith does not have "ears", it doesn't need the cable's volume cranked (which is not desierable either. It's purposely set at 17 to avoid signal clipping from being overdriven). it just needs your instruments output into the cable (read, your guitar's volume) to be as high as possible. So crank your guitar up, and make sure you do calibration in game.

I'm a Bassist, but I've noticed an issue with the tuner being fickle when tuning the E-String too. For me, when tuning up it tends to flip all the way up to +999. Just pluck (or pick, if you prefer) the string again and continue to ~slowly~ tune up. It'll eventually settle up.

[Buck]

Originally posted by I.R. Dianetics:

I didnt tell him to max it.

I didn't say you said that.

Certain guitars I use need the cable volume increased.

Then the problem is the guitar itself, not the cable, or the game. I would not be surprised if those same guitars, while sounding relatively good at low levels, would sound really badly distorted at high volumes on low power amps , or on other inputs like the lightsnake or line in.

Raising the volume a little MAY help slightly, but I think that the mere fact that there is zero affect on the output tone amplitude should be damning proof that it really doesn't do much (if anything.)

[jracer123]

I too had this issue and definitely was not a guitar problem. Tried different Gibson Les Pauls, 2 of which had just come back from my tech and not detecting notes. Intonation was set perfect, tuning fine, so I thought it must be an issue with the game. Saw where it was suggested that tweaking the volume levels would help, so I went into my settings and upped the level. This did indeed solve the problem.

[Shats Bassoon]

thanks for all the input guys.

jracer, which volume settings are you talking about? Is it settings for the realtone cable? If so what did you set yours at? I tried maxing it out and having it around 70 but still am not having much luck :[

[Jake7048911]

adjusting from 17 up to 30 absolutely helped me!! Thank You, I was trying to get 100% on something all day and once I readjusted the gain on my cord I was fine!

[jracer123]

Originally posted by Shats Basoon:

thanks for all the input guys.

jracer, which volume settings are you talking about? Is it settings for the realtone cable? If so what did you set yours at? I tried maxing it out and having it around 70 but still am not having much luck :[ [/quote]

Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner Shats. I was talking cable volume. I set mine from 17 to 40 which did the trick for me, but as you can see others went 30 or 50. Whichever works for you.