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Epic Midlife Crisis Falling to Pieces From Out of Nowhere Digging the Grave
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Jul 27, 2015 23:05
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toymach1ne posted:Epic 
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Jul 27, 2015 23:20
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Digging the Grave though
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Jul 28, 2015 00:02
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toymach1ne posted:Digging the Grave though I understand that people who aren't rating the pack on my system might not be too pleased.
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Jul 28, 2015 00:57
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Something from Introduce yourself would have been cool. Still, it's Faith No More, and their songs are fun and reasonably easy to play.
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Jul 28, 2015 02:11
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toymach1ne posted:Epic This makes me so happy. I hope they don't take too long getting us some more though.
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Jul 28, 2015 04:32
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toymach1ne posted:Epic Yay!
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Jul 28, 2015 10:32
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Really would've loved something like Ashes to Ashes, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies or something off the new album instead of From Out of Nowhere, but the presence of Midlife Crisis and Digging the Grave makes me happy.
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Jul 28, 2015 11:00
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Anyone having problems with Rocksmith not running good on Windows 10?
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Quinctia posted:How beginner are we talking about here? Yeah - pour some sugar on me was my first clear too. It's pretty easy. More important, I really enjoy that song. It's way easier to play songs you know and like.
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Jul 29, 2015 23:30
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Existing familiarity with a song definitely helps.
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Jul 30, 2015 01:57
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played the CDLC of Casey Jones and it was excellent, I recommend it
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Jul 30, 2015 16:34
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Next week 50's Rock Hits The Champs "Tequila" ??? ???
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Jul 31, 2015 21:07
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Yas kween
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Jul 31, 2015 22:57
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toymach1ne posted:Next week Johnny B Goode
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Aug 1, 2015 00:39
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OhDearGodNo posted:Johnny B Goode Oh hell yes
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Aug 1, 2015 00:42
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I was hoping that Champs was the one also known as The loving Champs drat I would love some RS versions of their stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t52zgOWNUo
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Aug 1, 2015 03:37
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OhDearGodNo posted:Johnny B Goode gently caress YES
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Rocksmith works perfectly through my gaming PC which outputs video over DP and audio over 3.5mm. Now I'm trying to get it to work on the HTPC on my TV but the only way I can connect the video is via HDMI. This results in audio lag. How do I connect my audio up to remove this lag? My PC has 3.5mm and TOSLINK outputs, and my soundbar has red/white RCA input and a digital coax (SPDIF) input. I can find various cables to convert between this but I want to be sure that it will work. Can I just buy a 3.5mm -> RCA cable and that will work without requiring any kind of conversion?
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Aug 2, 2015 19:35
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Tunga posted:Can I just buy a 3.5mm -> RCA cable and that will work without requiring any kind of conversion? Yes.
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After playing Rocksmith for several months now, I finally gave in to my desire to play bass and grabbed one over the weekend. At the moment, I seem to be doing a decent enough job on the basslines for various songs. So far, I've been playing with my fingers instead of a pick. I chose that route because when I took lessons with my acoustic, the teacher taught us fingerstyle and it made hitting the correct string very easy, since you always know what strings your fingers are resting on. With my electric guitar and using a pick, I've always struggled to hit the correct string. Especially the D and G strings. So when I went with bass, fingerstyle felt perfect, natural. I use two fingers right now for playing and I always know what string I'm on since, well, I can shift both fingers up and cover the top two strings. Or, shift the fingers down and cover both bottom strings. With this style of playing, my initial attempts at songs are leaving me at anywhere between 50-90% mastery. With a few of the easier songs at closer to almost 100% But, besides sound differences, should I be learning to play with a pick? Am I in any way stunting my growth or looking at potentially picking up bad habits by playing exclusively with my fingers? That said, holy poo poo bass is FUN! It's what I was trying to find with rhythm guitar: Getting into a trance and jamming away. EDIT: Also, it's always been a struggle to strum quickly with a pick. But with my fingers, fast passages with a steady stream of notes is a breeze! I just alternate between the two fingers when plucking the string. Picks feel so much slower and feel like they need more effort/energy to achieve the same result. Dolemite fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Aug 3, 2015 |
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Aug 3, 2015 17:37
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Besides sound the only reason to use a pick is if you have low stamina and have to play a lot of fast sections or chords. We can't all be Steve Harris and shred for an hour with our fingers.
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Aug 3, 2015 17:41
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Looks like Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock Around the Clock is gonna be in the 50's pack too.
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Aug 3, 2015 18:32
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It's good to learn finger and pick, since you get different tones out of them and they suit different styles. But if you're only playing one way, I'd say going with pick over fingers is limiting yourself, not the other way around Bass is a really physical instrument, and you get so much more control from having your hands in direct contact and yanking on the strings. You can go from picking with your nails to using the pads of your fingers, you can do plucking-hand muting, jazzy chords, all kinds of nuanced stuff. And a lot of bass playing is holding down a simple groove, so those subtle nuances in sounding each note are what makes it fun Practice with a pick though, even if it's just enough so you can bang out a passable bassline with one if you need to. Playing guitar doesn't exactly translate when you're picking steel cables with huge gaps between them, especially if you're getting that grind down at the bridge where the tension is crazy high
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Aug 3, 2015 19:50
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third song is most likely "La Bamba" by RItchie Valens
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Aug 3, 2015 22:57
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Learn both on Bass, but I'd say focus on fingers for non really quick things.
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Aug 3, 2015 23:27
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“Rock Around The Clock” by Bill Haley & His Comets – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass “Tequila” by The Champs – E Standard – Lead/Alternate Lead/Rhythm/Bass “La Bamba” by Ritchie Valens – E Standard – Lead/Rhythm/Bass Saxatar
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Aug 4, 2015 20:00
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Audrey and Kate came from Japan to the US and stopped by Ubi SF for a livestream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpQu0wlk0Jo I think it's pretty awesome
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Aug 5, 2015 02:32
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Her performance of For The Love Of God is incredibly awesome.
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Aug 5, 2015 14:30
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spamman posted:Her performance of For The Love Of God is incredibly awesome. timestamp is 36:25 for those looking
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Just Re-bought Rocksmith 2014 on Steam as I the speakers I was using to output on ps3 have blown and this was cheaper than buying new speakers. Is it possible to transfer purchases of DLC does anyone know?
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Not cross platform. only PC<->Mac as they both use the same format Steam account as each other.
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Thanks for the earlier bass playing tips regarding finger style vs. playing with a pick. Now, I have a technical question: Rocksmith almost rarely - if ever - recognizes when I play a note on the first fret of the lowest pitched string. Yet, if I pluck the open string or play any other note higher than the first fret, the game picks it up just fine. Rocksmith tends to have slightly better success at picking up the first fret note when the bass is tuned to E Standard. But any other tuning? Forget it. In fact, with some of the lower tunings, the game seems to not recognize more notes. Again, I seem to have better note recognition in the E Standard and occasionally, E Flat tunings. I'm not sure what's going on. The game picks up my regular guitar just fine! For reference, I'm using a used Squier Bronco Bass. It has two knobs - both of which I assume are volume and tone - turned all the way up. When I'm in the menu screen or something and I pluck the string, I can hear it just fine. The only thing I could think of to try was turning the Real Tone cable gain up. I went as high at ~4dB and that didn't really help. I'm using the PC version of the game. I'm not sure what the PC's specs are since the PC is actually my GF's. I do know it has an Asus motherboard and it runs Windows 7. It also has GTX cards in SLI mode. I know that doesn't help as much as it could. I don't know if this matters, but I notice that I can hear static through my headphones when I'm just sitting around with either my regular or bass guitar. If I cover the strings, it sometimes goes away. The static is also much less pronounced when I'm using the bass. (I hear the static even when having the Real Tone cable gain at the default level) So, what could be going on here? I'm getting frustrated because I'm getting good scores on a lot of basslines, but then I get poor scores on others because the game is not recognizing the notes. 
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Dolemite posted:Now, I have a technical question: Rocksmith almost rarely - if ever - recognizes when I play a note on the first fret of the lowest pitched string. Yet, if I pluck the open string or play any other note higher than the first fret, the game picks it up just fine. Rocksmith tends to have slightly better success at picking up the first fret note when the bass is tuned to E Standard. Possibly intonation? Do you have a digital tuner of your own? I guess you could use the rocksmith one. After you tune the open note as close as you can get to the reference pitch, try fretting notes and then see if those notes are in tune. If not you may need to take your bass to the shop to get a luthier to adjust your saddles to improve the intonation. Because rocksmith has to use frequency analysis to detect notes, intonation could be pushing a few of your frets just sharp or flat enough they don't register. That's my only guess could be something else too  Thing is intonation I would think would be more of an issue at like the 12th fret than the 1st, so that may not be it. But it could be some string voodoo like that.
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I haven't been able to figure it out either. I think the game just has a hard time sorting low frequencies. I thought it was maybe because I was using a cheap bass at first but even with my Carvin it has issues.
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Dolemite posted:I don't know if this matters, but I notice that I can hear static through my headphones when I'm just sitting around with either my regular or bass guitar. If I cover the strings, it sometimes goes away. The static is also much less pronounced when I'm using the bass. Yeah you're going to always hear static, that's feedback because you're playing a guitar near a computer which is normally a very stupid thing to do, but rocksmith kinda requires it so hey whatever. (I am in no way calling you stupid, I do the same thing) The reason why it cuts out completely when you cover the strings sometimes is because muting the strings makes the feedback static quieter, and rocksmith intelligently has a noise gate on pretty much all tone configurations AFAIK. So when you mute the strings the hiss gets quiet enough to fall below the threshold and the gate kicks in and completely mutes you. Without your palm muting the strings, the general hiss is loud enough the noise gate threshold isn't triggered (because it doesn't want to mute you if you're actually playing something quiet). Its just one of those things. Active pickups can help because they can cause pre-gain before the signal hits the cable, so you get a better signal-to-noise ratio, but when you're playing guitar right next to a computer it doesn't make much difference, those pickups are gonna get a ton of static either way.
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Could be an intonation issue, or the nut could be cut incorrectly, leading to an out-of-tune note at the first fret. Or you might be fretting too hard. If you pull up the little on screen tuner and tune so the open string is dead-on, where does it say the note at the first fret is? If you hear hiss that goes away when you mute the strings, then something is probably incorrectly grounded on your guitar. If it's a strat type, check inside the cavity on the back, the claw hook that the tremolo springs attach to should have a ground wire running back to the control cavity, which grounds the whole trem/bridge/strings system. Edit: could also be feedback, although that should be easy to check by playing Today by Smashing Pumpkins. That's the only song I've had send any of my guitars into heavy feedback, and it does it reliably if I'm too close. Schpyder fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Aug 7, 2015 |
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Dolemite posted:Thanks for the earlier bass playing tips regarding finger style vs. playing with a pick. First listen to the note and see how it sounds to your ear. Is it buzzing or choking when you play at the first fret? Does it sound dead? How about the other strings on that fret? If it doesn't sound right, you might need to adjust something like the string height or the truss rod. (The longer the vibrating part of the string, the wider the excursion in the middle, so the more clearance it needs over the neck, either through giving it more bend in the middle, or raising the ends of the string. The open string ends at the nut, which is usually cut so the string rests a bit higher up than when you fret it, which is why that might not have the same problem) If that's coo', check the precision tuner in the game and make sure it is seeing the right note. Might help to compare with a real tuner - Pitchlab is a great phone app if you don't have a hardware tuner around. If the note is fine, but the game is getting it wrong, try messing with your guitar settings - change pickups, roll off the tone a bit, mess with the volume (generally max is good unless the pickups are overloading the signal, so give it a try). Play harder and softer, and pluck the string in different places, see if it makes a difference Personally I have to ease off the audio engine and graphics settings because my computer is crap, and if I don't it'll completely fail to recognise certain notes - on the high E string for me, but it does seem to be a consistent issue I can fix by making the settings less aggressive. It's worth pointing out that because of the way guitars physically work, once your intonation is set properly (so it's in tune everywhere on the neck), that's only set for your current string gauge and tuning. So tuning down will mess that up slightly - hopefully not enough to matter, but if you're already in a kind of ehhhhh intonation it might be enough to push it over the edge. Also when you pick a string the note goes sharp, and picking hard might go BEAAAAAWWOW on a bass, especially if your strings are low tension. I think a short-scale bass like you have might exacerbate that a bit
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I didn't mean sound feedback from the speaker as much as E/M noise feedback from the computer's electronics. The only place to get a perfectly clean guitar signal is inside a Faraday cage, but in general the further away you are from running computers/tvs/etc the better your sound. The Beatles used to joke that The Kremlin had the best acoustics in the world, because it was rigged to prevent people from using bugging devices and such.
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