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Rock Band 2 Stratocaster seems ... lacking
MetroidZoid
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I've noticed that the Stratocaster guitar I got in my RB2 set (Wii, if it matters) seems to be having issues with the strum bar as of lately. It's not registering every hit, and I've already gone through, checked and rechecked calibration, everything is fine. Also, the guitar that I got from the RB1 set still works fine, and has no problems with the same set of calibrations. I'm 99.9% it's the strum bar alone that's causing the problem, especially because when I'm navigating the menus, it only register's about 2/3 of the time for every up or down direction.
So ... I've heard rumors of do-it-yourself fixes, but am hesitant to try, obviously this voids any warranty. Speaking of that, however, can you still send in an instrument to Harmonix if it's stopped working, just not necessarily out-of-the box? I bought this in January, so it's still under a year old, and I still have the receipt, I'm just trying to figure out the easiest fix.
Thank you for any help.
So ... I've heard rumors of do-it-yourself fixes, but am hesitant to try, obviously this voids any warranty. Speaking of that, however, can you still send in an instrument to Harmonix if it's stopped working, just not necessarily out-of-the box? I bought this in January, so it's still under a year old, and I still have the receipt, I'm just trying to figure out the easiest fix.
Thank you for any help.
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Today I decide, that after sitting in front of the plastic guitar for 3 weeks straight, and drawing detailed schematics of what could be in the guitar (most of which included various worm-holes, hamster-powered pistons, and various sexy pneumatics), that I would crack that shit open.
Very carefully. With a screwdriver.
Aaaand I've come to the conclusion that I can do nothing further. Apparently, and unbeknownst to me, while the first RB guitars use a set of metal switches to detect the strum bar, the RB2 guitar uses mysterious alien magnets, unknown to even our top scientists. Really, though, it's magnets, and I can't adjust magnets. I'm thinking maybe that when my cat's knocked the guitar off the couch once or twice, it may have jarred it enough to de-magnetize it silghtly? Anyways, right now I'm considering one of the replacement switches that I've seen advetised and reccomended on a few Rock Band related forums out there.
We'll see how this goes.
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Also, I'm not certain on this, but I honestly doubt that your cats knocking the guitar off the couch would have generated sufficient force to demagnetized those magnets.
...
It didn't.
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