The Official "My Rock Band Hardware Works Fine" Thread.

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Since:

A.) There seems to be an overwhelming amount of "Defective out of the box and/or I broke my Rock Band hardware within 1-3 hours of play-time" threads on the web at the current time.

and

B.) There seems to be an exceptional shortage of places for Rock Band users who have 100% functional hardware to post the "completely functional satus" of their $170 investment.

I figured that I'd create a haven for happy, satisfied game consumers who were fortunate enough to not have defective Fenders, Drum-Kits or USB Microphones.

Please - share your hands-on reports of how long your strum-bars have been registering up and down strokes perfectly, and how accurate your drum pads and pedal are.

[dylan0228]

No problems here & I`ve given it plenty of use since the release!

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

I just got verbal confirmation from my friend Chris - the manager of the Hackensack NJ GameStop that they sold out of all of their Rock Band release shipment on launch day (approximately 20+ copies - both PS3 and 360) and from those sales:

None of the buyers/regular customers have called in regarding defects, attempted to return defective hardware, or reported that they needed to utilize EA/Harmonix's warranty replacement service (with myself included in those statistics).

[Perkar]

mine works great. 360 version.

played completely through expert on guitar (including bonus songs... and a few tries on green grass and high tides), my girlfriend has played a bit of guitar. i've done just a couple songs on vocals, played first few tiers for drums on easy. on thanksigiving my cousins came over and we played 3 player (drums, guitar, vox) and rocked out for a couple hours. my little cousins are better than me at the drums.

all in all i'd say it's NOT DEFECTIVE \m/

[otaku]

mine works great but I am worried the guitar won't hold up over time (and it sucks to use) I use my GH3 guitar when I play guitar (usually on drums though) sweet game just needs a better guitar

[RevQuixo]

Has anyone noticed that the mushier nature of the strum bar means that it is much harder to hit tightly grouped note strings? With GH, I was able to just press-press-press the strum bar to hit them, but with RB I have to flick the strum bar...which I will admit feels more realistic but makes me feel like I am causing more wear and tear.

Not sure if my problem is just me playing GH wrong all these years or just Rock Band having a "better way" of simulating the guitar...or a defective guitar. Playing through "Paranoid" on medium almost made my arm fall off with the flick method. :O

Assuming its just me...everything out of the box is working fine.

[Princess-Isabela]

mine set works perfectly(Xbox 360).
beat half of the songs on drums(hard), and guitar.
I did not use microphone yet though.

[spoon]

Has anyone noticed that the mushier nature of the strum bar means that it is much harder to hit tightly grouped note strings?

Yeah, me. I am having the same problem with that guitar only.

I don't think the copies themselves are defective as much as people who have played previous guitars are used to the strum bar reading down strokes way earlier. I've noticed you have to push the strum bar down a bit farther to register. This makes it so damn hard to hit the quick notes for me. I'm not that good anyhow.

Anyhow, Just played the game for 5 hours straight. No problems at all. Everything has worked fine out of the box.

The colored rings around my drums are starting to rub away and run down though. I hope they built it well because I beat the hell out of it. I don't care for the drum sticks. I already have two blisters on my hand. Time to pick up a new pair. Wonder if a set with Plastic tips would be better?

Also, has anybody hit their drums so hard that they are bringing up the 360 profile sign in screen and pausing the game? I have done it quite a few times.

[jeffg]

I got mine and the drums and mic are fine. The guitar I sold on ebay for $70 plus shipping since I hated the feel of the guitar at the demo's and I like my Guitar Hero guitars better.

I can't complain game, drums, and mic for $100 and loving it.

[MoreEbolaForYou]

I'll add in that all of my stuff is working fine. I've played through solo on the guitar on hard and halfway through expert so far. i've also done a ton of multi player, probably 20 hours worth and no problems so far. at first i really couldn't play the guitar very fast compared to a guitar hero guitar, but i've sort of since gotten used to it. i've gotten through the really fast strumming part on creep when you play it on expert only missing a note or two.

[gepeto]

I was thinking of getting one but I have no bandmates

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

I was thinking of getting one but I have no bandmates

Well, there's always online ... that's one of the main draws of the game conceptually speaking.

[kaedesdisciple]

Well, there's always online ... that's one of the main draws of the game conceptually speaking.

How is the online play? Is there much issue with lag?

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Well, there you go.

All my hope, positivity, and delicate handling of my Rock Band hardware couldn't save me from faulty equipment.

The downstrum is now totally non-functional on my PS3 guitar.

I put in a replacement order from Harmonix/EA.

I guess all I can do is hope everything works out with that one until some type of 3rd party guitar with a nice "clicky" strum bar is released.

Wonder if this is some sort of karma for making this thread...