Harmonix Admits Early Rock Band Guitars Flawed
"As sometimes happens when new products first go into manufacturing, we discovered an imperfection with the strum bar in an early production run of guitars that were shipped at launch," a Harmonix employee wrote. "We've since identified and fixed the issue in all subsequent production runs of the guitars."
Harmonix went on to apologize for the mistake, and advises any gamers with faulty guitars to make use of the Rock Band support website to receive a quick replacement. Multiple members of the Shack staff can attest to both quick and easy service using the Rock Band replacement program.
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at0micgarden
replyTo the Shack staff whose guitars were busted, in what way were they defective? I think my strum bar is fine except it's a little squishy, but I figured that's just how it was. How can I tell?
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My strum bar was really sporadic. Out of four downstrums, it would recognize maybe two.
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They're all (disappointingly) squishy. If it doesn't register notes, or it registers two strums for every time you flick it, you're in trouble.
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Down strumming stops responding, sometimes it's intermittent, sometimes totally. The easiest way to be sure that it's happening it to play a section with just down strumming and then play a section with just upstrumming. It because so obvious on my guitar that I didn't need to do this eventually, but at first it wasn't quite so pronounced.
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I posted about this on launch with the guitar comments thread, and a couple other people confirmed - all of our guitars seem to have that loose 'gutter' in the middle. I don't really like it, but hopefully it's intended.
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I'll take a look - at work, a couple people got replacement guitars yesterday. I didn't check to see if the strum bar felt any different, though I honestly hope it will too. :(
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Pretty much figured this was the case. Thanksgiving day, we were rocking out most of the afternoon while the turkeys got dizzy in the Rotisseries. I was sticking mostly to the Strat and was having no problem with the songs on hard. As the day progresses, I start missing more and more notes much to my agitation. At first I thought the timing was off, so I re-calibrated. After that, I was doing fine again, but the x-plorer being used for bass was way off now.
Eventually its goose was cooked, and it refused to register a down strum 2/3 of the time, so it was quickly replaced with another x-plorer. Good news is that the replacement process is easy. Pretty much a no questions asked system. You answer 2-3 questions and they have you pick a shipping options. Bad news is that you have to create an account with EA. I expect my replacement to arrive sometime day since I chose the express shipping option. -
My tilt sensor was busted, so no overdrive by tilting the guitar. Still waiting for the replacement...
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