Anyone have a good solution for horrible audio distortion when using your PC line/headphone out jacks to send the signal to a guitar amp outside of a brand new soundcard?
Anyone have a good solution for horrible audio distortion when using your PC line/headphone out jacks to send the signal to a guitar amp outside of a brand new soundcard?
What is your goal? Are you trying to send Rocksmith signal to your amp?
What type of distortion? 60 cycle hum? Buzz? Clipping?
Also what kind of amp is it (brand/model)
Yoreel wrote:Anyone have a good solution for horrible audio distortion when using your PC line/headphone out jacks to send the signal to a guitar amp outside of a brand new soundcard?
What is your goal? Are you trying to send Rocksmith signal to your amp?
What type of distortion? 60 cycle hum? Buzz? Clipping?Also what kind of amp is it (brand/model)
Yup, trying to send signal to the amp via the 3.5mm jack. I'm guessing it is due to 60 cycle hum but was looking for an option outside of a DI box with a ground lift. I have two practice amps with an actual line in feature - a Kustom- KG 110 and a Peavey Blazer 158. Both inputs function perfectly when using a self powered device like a laptop or a phone.
imbiginjapan wrote:Yoreel wrote:Anyone have a good solution for horrible audio distortion when using your PC line/headphone out jacks to send the signal to a guitar amp outside of a brand new soundcard?
What is your goal? Are you trying to send Rocksmith signal to your amp?
What type of distortion? 60 cycle hum? Buzz? Clipping?Also what kind of amp is it (brand/model)
Yup, trying to send signal to the amp via the 3.5mm jack. I'm guessing it is due to 60 cycle hum but was looking for an option outside of a DI box with a ground lift. I have two practice amps with an actual line in feature - a Kustom- KG 110 and a Peavey Blazer 158. Both inputs function perfectly when using a self powered device like a laptop or a phone.
Yeah with the electrical noise from the computer and the tv, and all those devices probably being on the same circuit you might well get some nasty buzzing. You could try making sure the amp is on a separate circuit.
I know you don't really want to do this but I played around with an ABY splitter to send the guitar to the amp separately. I found the signal got a bit muddier due to the signal loss (a buffer in the chain may have helped) but it was a much truer representation of my playing than through RS which is so heavily processed. If you send the sound from RS into a line in, you're just using the amp as a speaker which limits its usefulness.
As you touched upon the ideal solution is an active ABY switch like the Radial Twin City, and those can unfortunately run something like $170. I used a $60 passive box and got maybe halfway there.
I love this game, it got me to learn songs I would never have tried to play (basically everything that isn't metal aka 90% of the games main songs) so I owe some kudos to it. It also increased my ability to bend strings to exact pitches and what not. Love it.
I play bass too, but I just can't bring myself to play the bass in this game due to the game being so heavily focused on the guitar. Does anyone else think like this?
I play bass too, but I just can't bring myself to play the bass in this game due to the game being so heavily focused on the guitar. Does anyone else think like this?
No.
I mostly play bass and it is great for learning songs and working on bass techniques. It has made my guitar playing better, for sure, but it has really helped develop my bass chops, maybe beyond when I was in a band ~30 years ago and playing a lot more than I can now.
Edit: damn, been almost 30 years :/
Q--_- wrote:I play bass too, but I just can't bring myself to play the bass in this game due to the game being so heavily focused on the guitar. Does anyone else think like this?
No.
I mostly play bass and it is great for learning songs and working on bass techniques. It has made my guitar playing better, for sure, but it has really helped develop my bass chops, maybe beyond when I was in a band ~30 years ago and playing a lot more than I can now.
Edit: damn, been almost 30 years :/
My main instrument is guitar. Technically, any guitarist can play bass. But we guitarists usually play bass like we play guitar. So songs like Blitzkrieg Bop and Girl You Really Got Me Now are super easy for me, because the bass part is practically identical to the guitar part. I could play both of those perfectly on about the 3rd try.
But even a slow song like Knockin' On Heaven's Door took me a long time to master, because it had a bass part that was different than the guitar part. It has an actual bass part. Suspicious Minds has been a real challenge for me for the same reasons.
I really enjoy that challenge, though. And I love learning the technics used by actual bass players.
Anyone have a good solution for horrible audio distortion when using your PC line/headphone out jacks to send the signal to a guitar amp outside of a brand new soundcard?
I actually decided to fire this up this weekend and all the audio was horrible, both the game and the guitar, it also wouldn't calibrate properly. I'm not sure if you're having the same issue, but I had to go into the game files, open rocksmith.ini and change:
‘Win32UltraLowLatencyMode= 1
to
‘Win32UltraLowLatencyMode= 0
I played bass on RS for 5 hours yesterday and 2 hours today. Now I have a very painful bluster on my left index finger. Please Let Me Back and Walk This Way are to blame.
I have hernia surgery on Friday, so I guess my RS days are over for about a week or so. The joy of playing music far outweighs the pain from the blister, but I can't help but curse my flesh for being so delicate. If I had a robotic hand like Luke and Vader I could keep playing until I passed out.
Bass blister update: spoilered for the squeamish.
Last night I lanced it with a very sharp kitchen knife. The fluid that came out was slightly bloody.
Now you can barely see it but it hurts like a mother.
On top of that, I have some painful tendonitis in both arms. My right picking arm is more sore than the left.
I guess I really over did it. I was having so much fun that I lost track of time. If that blister hadn't formed I would have kept going.
If I had a robotic hand like Luke and Vader I could keep playing until I passed out.
Sig worthy?
Bass blisters are the best. It is how we get bass-worthy calluses.
Although I don't have the stamina to play for 5 hours straight any more. I get about 90 minutes in and either my arthritis starts screaming at me and/or my fret hand cramps up and/or my pick/pluck arm is a noodle. I have been working on my stamina and strength but the arthritis makes it really hard.
I guess I just hate getting old.
but the arthritis makes it really hard.
Have you tried the trifecta of glucosomine, chrondatin, and msm?
Amazingly good for reducing arthritis.
tboon wrote:but the arthritis makes it really hard.
Have you tried the trifecta of glucosomine, chrondatin, and msm?
Amazingly good for reducing arthritis.
I do, but it still hurts like a motherf*cker when playing certain songs more than a couple times.
Getting old definitely sucks ass. At 47 I honestly don't know how I had the stamina to play for five hours one day and then two hours the next.
tboon wrote:but the arthritis makes it really hard.
Have you tried the trifecta of glucosomine, chrondatin, and msm?
Amazingly good for reducing arthritis.
I'll give those a try, thanks! Anything that helps!
RawkGWJ wrote:If I had a robotic hand like Luke and Vader I could keep playing until I passed out.
Sig worthy?
Yeah. I think you're right.
Okay, my Rocksmith pet peeve has finally gotten to the point I have to post something. Why on earth do I have to confirm that I want to exit the game twice? Is there some hidden option on the second exit screen I'm missing?
If you go back one level where the guitar path (lead/rhythm/bass) is showing... there's an X in the top right corner near that icon. Click that and you're all the way out.
Okay, my Rocksmith pet peeve has finally gotten to the point I have to post something. Why on earth do I have to confirm that I want to exit the game twice? Is there some hidden option on the second exit screen I'm missing?
Yup.. This drives me nuts. They do it so you can sign out of your profile and let someone else log in, I believe. This makes sense in a multi-player household, but I'm the only one using Rocksmith in my house so it does get annoying. I often time just use alt-F4, making sure that i'm not saving anything.
My peeve with the game is alternate tunings. Since E flat standard is fairly ubiquitous, I will tune to that and then play all of the songs in that tuning. I even bought the Alabama Shakes DLC because two of the songs are tuned to E flat standard. I will probably buy the Weezer DLC too. I'm pretty sure most of their first (best) album is in that tuning.
My peeve with the game is alternate tunings. Since E flat standard is fairly ubiquitous, I will tune to that and then play all of the songs in that tuning. I even bought the Alabama Shakes DLC because two of the songs are tuned to E flat standard. I will probably buy the Weezer DLC too. I'm pretty sure most of their first (best) album is in that tuning.
Most hard rock songs are in E flat. Few years ago i got an upgraded guitar. Was the greatest thing i did in regards to tuning. Now i take turns keeping one in E or Drop D and the other in the alternate tunings.
Rocksmith aside, alternate tunings just make guitar more fun in general, and it's a great excuse to go guitar shopping. I have an acoustic that lives in open G, just because it sounds great no matter what you do. The start of me acquiring multiple guitars was listening to lots of Joni Mitchell in open D and Keith Richards in open G and getting sick of re-tuning all the time.
As for Rocksmith, I never minded E flat or Drop D. It's the ones where A is tuned to 217 instead of 220 that annoy the crap out of me. Just means somebody in the studio was tuning by ear instead of a tuner of some sort, and it's unique and annoying.
It's far more common on the old stuff, in part due to recording practices and the lack of precision gear. In some cases even if you tuned perfectly the recording reels could be running a touch too fast or too slow and pitch everything up or down a touch when you transferred the masters.
Oasis on the other hand has no excuse for being off pitch save for being drunk, high and lazy.
drunk, high and lazy.
You mean they play reggae?
It's far more common on the old stuff, in part due to recording practices and the lack of precision gear. In some cases even if you tuned perfectly the recording reels could be running a touch too fast or too slow and pitch everything up or down a touch when you transferred the masters.
THIS!!
I feel like the old songs that are in A443 or A337 should have just been digitally corrected to A440. Or at least we should have been offered that as an option. That way the "original version" nazis can be happy, while I don't have to tune a semi tone up or down.
Honestly, I just skip those songs.
I bought some DLC packs today. The Misfits and The Pixies. I blew through all 8 songs (on bass) getting over 95% on each song.
In contrast, I still can't play Paranoid Android worth a crap, and I LOVE that song.
I'll have to go back and try those on guitar.
Bought the Muddy Waters set last week. Not played it yet though.
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