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TransatlanticFoe posted:Does anyone know if there's any way to replace the strings on the Mustang? Is there any way they can break in the first place? I don't know what they're made out of, but all six strings are comparable in gauge to a 6-E string, and they have a fair amount of wiggle-room. Whether they can be replaced depends on your opinions regarding the user-serviceability of plastic guitar instruments; me, I'm afraid to look in there.
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Deathlove posted:This just makes me feel terrifyingly old. Sup ancient goonbuddy. Fortunately that song brings back a whole world of happy memories - along with the hideous glam of the same era. Here's hoping for Dressed for Success. And more Dire Straits of course. And perhaps Jump by Dave Lee Roth.
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olblue posted:Sup ancient goonbuddy. Fortunately that song brings back a whole world of happy memories - along with the hideous glam of the same era. Here's hoping for Dressed for Success. And more Dire Straits of course. And perhaps Jump by Dave Lee Roth.
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Would be super sweet if it was just a clamp holding them on on either end. I'm also a bit curious as to how much wiggle room you have. $7 bucks for a set of Slinkys, and a wire clipper and you've got strings for a while. Plus if the possibility for actually having the proper string gauge for the correct "String" is there, I'd be a lot more willing to drop on the mustang controller rather than waiting for the Fender. I do think you'll be hard pressed to break one of the default strings though. I doubt they are under as much tension as they would be on a real guitar, and on top of that I'm guessing all six strings on the mustang are going to be somewhere around a .46 to .52. In 8 years of playing I can count the number of times i've snapped a .52 while playing on one hand.
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I'm in the minority that I love this game's setlist. The 80s songs all rule, the indy stuff I love (Portions, Con, Combat Baby), Misery Business is a song I've wanted for some time and it's introduced me to bands I want to explore more: Riverboat Gamblers, The Bronx and Phoenix. I definitely like this list more than others. Including Lego, I think the track selections have gotten steadily better from 1.
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Someone who owns the Mustang can probably answer this question a bit better, but on the demo guitar I played with the strings felt more plastic than metal - not the same feel as real strings at all. There was also a fair amount of play in the strings, although that might have been due to it being a demo model that had been abused.
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weekly font posted:I'm in the minority that I love this game's setlist. The 80s songs all rule, the indy stuff I love (Portions, Con, Combat Baby), Misery Business is a song I've wanted for some time and it's introduced me to bands I want to explore more: Riverboat Gamblers, The Bronx and Phoenix. I definitely like this list more than others. Including Lego, I think the track selections have gotten steadily better from 1.
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How do we wrestle control over Van Halen's song "Jump" from Activision because this song is perfect for Rock Band 3 and the keyboard.
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In case anyone was wondering, the old RB games just see the keyboard as a regular Xbox controller (it thinks you're a vocalist). I tried it in LRB last night. I was wondering if there was any chance of it showing up as a guitar controller, but of course that would require some decent patchwork to account for the lack of strumming and all that. (I don't actually WANT the old games to support this, I just tried it out of curiosity)
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Not only would Dreams be the best Van Halen song for keyboards, it would be the best Van Halen song period. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZLKtjATZt0
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Minidust posted:In case anyone was wondering, the old RB games just see the keyboard as a regular Xbox controller (it thinks you're a vocalist). I tried it in LRB last night. I was wondering if there was any chance of it showing up as a guitar controller, but of course that would require some decent patchwork to account for the lack of strumming and all that. (I don't actually WANT the old games to support this, I just tried it out of curiosity) Are you kidding? All the Beatles songs I could play...  (Hey Bulldog and Fixing a Hole, to name a few)
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Well the pro mustang is back in stock on gameshark. Com to get it or to wait on the other guitar?hmm decisions.. know that with the six string i can connect it to an amp, but can I use the amp output while playing the game?
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Morter posted:Are you kidding? All the Beatles songs I could play... 
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Song For The Deaf posted:My favorite side-effect of playing Rock Band is getting acquainted with songs I otherwise would have never been hip to. I'm thinking specifically of "Portions for Foxes," "Killing Moon," and "Just Like Heaven," which are all working their way onto my iPod and into my daily RB3 sessions. Don't tell anyone but I kind of like "Portions for Foxes"; it reminds me of Neko Case's stuff and she's great (she's got "People Got A Lotta Nerve" as DLC). Also "Just Like Heaven" is totally awesome and if you like The Cure you should check out Siouxsie and the Banshees and New Order DLC. Where's Arcade Fire? Harmonies, keyboards, great music; seems like a perfect addition to RB3.
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Harminoff posted:Well the pro mustang is back in stock on gameshark. Com to get it or to wait on the other guitar?hmm decisions.. know that with the six string i can connect it to an amp, but can I use the amp output while playing the game? Pretty sure you can. That's suppose to be the "Free Play Mode" from what I understand. Also I doubt that the sensors and what not that detect what strings you are playing are tied to the pickup/jack.
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Has anyone here had a good/bad experience ordering the Pro Guitar from Gameshark.com? It's worth the extra shipping to get it early, but I don't want to get burned like the Newegg deal. I'm about ready to pull the trigger on the order. Edit: gently caress it, I pulled the trigger. Worst case scenario, I get it shipped to me on launch day. Best case, I get the drat thing by friday. Song For The Deaf fucked around with this message at Nov 2, 2010 around 16:07 |
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Song For The Deaf posted:Has anyone here had a good/bad experience ordering the Pro Guitar from Gameshark.com? It's worth the extra shipping to get it early, but I don't want to get burned like the Newegg deal. I ordered mine from them, and they shipped it yesterday to arrive tomorrow. FedEx tracking is following it and everything, so I have no reason to believe it won't show up.
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Kamoc posted:Where's Arcade Fire? I would kill all of you for some Arcade Fire. All of you. I mean it.
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What the poo poo Harmonix/Mad Catz, apparently their date of "everything instrument wise should be arriving in Canada for sale on the 2nd Nov" has now turned into "first or second week of Nov". Why are you dicking us around? I just want to play Pro Guitar 
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Migishu posted:What the poo poo Harmonix/Mad Catz, apparently their date of "everything instrument wise should be arriving in Canada for sale on the 2nd Nov" has now turned into "first or second week of Nov". Ugh I couldn't stand it anymore and I just cancelled my online order through gamestop.ca and bought it through amazon.com in addition to a couple of other games in that buy 2 games get 1 free promo they have going on right now edit: bought the game that way and ordered the keyboard as well. Both in stock and for the PS3 at least the game+keyboard is $10 cheaper than my preorder through gamestop. And here I thought I was saving money by getting my pre-order in before they boosted the bundle price through the roof in canada. Hah! Squibbles fucked around with this message at Nov 2, 2010 around 16:26 |
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DaWolfey posted:I would kill all of you for some Jamiroquai. Seriously. Probably four of you realize what we're missing. You are not exempt. On topic: I ordered this sans keyboard from Amazon as part of the buy-2-get-1-free deal they've got going on right now. I know it's more expensive to buy the keyboard by itself but I couldn't resist. I'm guessing I last less than 24 hours with the game in hand before I order the keyboard.
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Model Camper posted:Seriously. Probably four of you realize what we're missing. The keyboard is only like $74 on amazon or something like that! At least on the ps3...
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Some Stevie Wonder could be pretty awesome. We know for a fact that multitracks are available at least as far back as "Superstition", so there's potential.
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Squibbles posted:The keyboard is only like $74 on amazon or something like that! At least on the ps3... Freaking $91.29 for 360 right now. This is why the good Lord gave us credit cards.
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Song For The Deaf posted:Has anyone here had a good/bad experience ordering the Pro Guitar from Gameshark.com? It's worth the extra shipping to get it early, but I don't want to get burned like the Newegg deal. I ordered from there end of the day on Tuesday of last week. It did take a while for processing. They do say up to 2 days. I think it shipped out late Thursday, and I got it yesterday. I'm not really skilled with a real guitar. But it has been fun last night, going through tutorials and playing some songs on easy pro. Even did pretty good on some medium songs. It is going to take a bit of time to learn (A long time).
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Sir Lemming posted:Some Stevie Wonder could be pretty awesome. We know for a fact that multitracks are available at least as far back as "Superstition", so there's potential. Up until I read this post I had not considered Stevie Wonder for this game but now I want it. A lot.
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Kamoc posted:Ida Maria - "Oh My God" Crazy -- when I was playing that song for the first time I got the sudden urge to kill myself. (Music tastes  )Hooked up my keyboard to my computer today and was very pleased. A surprisingly competent MIDI controller --- I'm hoping that the Pro Keys/Guitar instuments sell well if for no other reason that they are dirt cheap ways to get into decent MIDI controllers.
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I've got five years of guitar experience, so hopefully I can hop in on Hard. It's likely that I'll be humiliated back down to Medium, though Now to binge my way through all of the standard guitar and bass goals, since I'll probably never play those again.
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Song For The Deaf posted:I've got five years of guitar experience, so hopefully I can hop in on Hard. It's likely that I'll be humiliated back down to Medium, though The hard part will be reading the music in Rock Band format. That's what makes playing keyboards difficult, even though I've been playing piano for decades. vvv EDIT: I figured the wait will be enough for me to learn pro Drums and pro Keybs. vvv
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Well, my "No, seriously, I'm going to hold out for the Squier" campaign lasted a full week.
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whypick1 posted:Well, my "No, seriously, I'm going to hold out for the Squier" campaign lasted a full week. If you take good care of your controllers, I'm sure you can resell the Mustang to someone before the Squier launches for $70 or more. $80 to play Pro Guitar for 5+ months seems worth it to me!
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pksage posted:You could with Pro Bass Oh man, I hadn't even thought about that. Someone hurry up and post a pro bass video!
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pksage posted:If you take good care of your controllers... My friends would probably say "no", especially in regards to the drums.
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whypick1 posted:Well, my "No, seriously, I'm going to hold out for the Squier" campaign lasted a full week. ..but really it's just because I can't wait that long to play pro guitar
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D is That Guy posted:Would be super sweet if it was just a clamp holding them on on either end. I'm also a bit curious as to how much wiggle room you have. $7 bucks for a set of Slinkys, and a wire clipper and you've got strings for a while. Plus if the possibility for actually having the proper string gauge for the correct "String" is there, I'd be a lot more willing to drop on the mustang controller rather than waiting for the Fender. Well, keep in mind that the Mustang is still a plastic-guitar at heart. I'm not sure how the mechanics of it work and I'm not about to rip and tear the guitar apart to find out. But each string is loose enough that you can almost touch it against the string next to it without moving that string. I don't know what they're made out of it but it feels sturdy.
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Wanting to play normal songs on the pro controllers seems like an incredibly shortsighted desire to me after playing with the Mustang tbh. You either have to use the first five frets, the first couple of which are as wide as almost two of the regular buttons, or the bottom frets which are all incredibly small. The thought of playing them on the Squier seems even more painful. If you wanted to do it for the extra challenge you won't be disappointed. If you wanted to do it because you're too lazy to turn on another controller, you're going to have to make some adjustments.
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It's more convenient for me to fire up a wireless keyboard or Mustang than to dig out and plug in my Rock Band 1 guitar. :\
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So is the Mustang a good controller then? At least for some comparison to a real leccy guitar. Like it'll ever come out in the UK at this rate, though.
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The gameshark store has a few in stock now, plus you get 10% off if you subscribe to their newsletter and get the coupon code... http://store.gameshark.com/viewItem...&idCategory=323
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DrWhiplash posted:Wanting to play normal songs on the pro controllers seems like an incredibly shortsighted desire to me after playing with the Mustang tbh. You either have to use the first five frets, the first couple of which are as wide as almost two of the regular buttons, or the bottom frets which are all incredibly small. The thought of playing them on the Squier seems even more painful. The Squier doesn't support non-pro playing. So the Mustang would be an acceptable transitional instrument I guess. You could play in a group with other people from the huge pool of existent rb songs and also do some pro guitar. With the squier you'd be stuck swapping back and forth at parties or else be forced to play the <100 pro supporting songs rather than the 2000+ regular ones I suppose.
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