Rocksmith not picking up chords

[Chicken the Epic gamer]

So I'm using Rocksmith with an Acoustic guitar and a mic (not the best way I know)
and any time I'm supposed to do any chord it won't pick it up.
It's perfect at picking up one finger ones but as soon as I use more than one it just doesn't work.

[Paladin]

Yeah not surprised. Using a mic and acoustic is a real balancing act. Everything needs to be perfect and ambient noise nearly zero. the mic also needs to be real close to the sound hole btw. I have a acoustic and tried the mic method. I have a Scareltt 2i4 and SM58 and a sm57 that I used. it's was average at best not perfect.

So here is my suggestion......

Make sure you are not griping the chord like a baseball bat. Press a light as you can without fretting out. You may be going sharp. I have this prob when transition from my Acoustic to my strats and LP's.

1. Play Castle Chordia and try different gain settings, mic distances, until you find something that works fairly well. Second, be ready for close but not all the time.

2. If you can pick up a good pickup for the guitar like a fishman. Do it and go RS Cable. The experience will be much better.

[Chicken the Epic gamer]

Originally posted by Paladin:

Yeah not surprised. Using a mic and acoustic is a real balancing act. Everything needs to be perfect and ambient noise nearly zero. the mic also needs to be real close to the sound hole btw. I have a acoustic and tried the mic method. I have a Scareltt 2i4 and SM58 and a sm57 that I used. it's was average at best not perfect.

So here is my suggestion......

Make sure you are not griping the chord like a baseball bat. Press a light as you can without fretting out. You may be going sharp. I have this prob when transition from my Acoustic to my strats and LP's.

1. Play Castle Chordia and try different gain settings, mic distances, until you find something that works fairly well. Second, be ready for close but not all the time.

2. If you can pick up a good pickup for the guitar like a fishman. Do it and go RS Cable. The experience will be much better.

I've tried the castle chordia thing and no matter how high my gain is it just wont register which is weird cuz it picks up the one finger ones

[Chicken the Epic gamer]

Like I can do the frog minigame perfectly fine but the chord one wont work

[Boris the Animal]

Paladin nailed it with his advice, per usual. Here's the only other tidbit I can offer. Hope it helps you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rocksmith/comments/2e5zat/can_i_use_my_mic_for_acoustic_guitars_for_pc/

Best of luck.

[Chicken the Epic gamer]

okay so i've figured out that when im in the pause menu it does pick up the chords but the it wont work ingame. so it knows im doing it.

[RagingDelirium]

can you provide tick list of chords it's failing on?
e.g Em thru to F, at various positions

[Chicken the Epic gamer]

Originally posted by RagingDelirium:

can you provide tick list of chords it's failing on?
e.g Em thru to F, at various positions

I've only tried with the first chord lesson where it makes you do E (possibly Em)

[alexcustos]

The game isn't too mean on chord detection. All it expects is a few bass strings. It usually can't detect them properly because of obvious errors. The main one is maffling or not hitting the bass string, others involve the guitar and mic setup. I never tried such a setup, but I'm pretty sure the game should work well if it's provided with a decent signal. Anyway, you can fake the way through a lesson or song playing power chords on 2 or 3 strings instead. If it doesn't work as well, you'll need to double-check your setup.

[RagingDelirium]

Originally posted by Chicken the Epic gamer:

Originally posted by RagingDelirium:

can you provide tick list of chords it's failing on?
e.g Em thru to F, at various positions

I've only tried with the first chord lesson where it makes you do E (possibly Em)

I'm guessing you've used the RS tuner and you are using a pick?

[Chicken the Epic gamer]

Originally posted by RagingDelirium:

Originally posted by Chicken the Epic gamer:

I've only tried with the first chord lesson where it makes you do E (possibly Em)

I'm guessing you've used the RS tuner and you are using a pick?

i havent been using a pick so i could try that

[Chicken the Epic gamer]

Originally posted by Chicken the Epic gamer:

Originally posted by RagingDelirium:

I'm guessing you've used the RS tuner and you are using a pick?

i havent been using a pick so i could try that

that actually worked thnaks so much!

[76561198868390479]

Hey everyone! Great to see the community helping one another. Thanks for letting us know that the problem is resolved by using a pick.

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