Got the Rock Band wireless guitar yesterday

[VashHT]

Say I got the wireless rock band guitar yesterday for my 360. So far its perfect in every aspect except for one: the tilt function does not work well. Now when I first started playing it it wouldn't work at all, couldn't get my star power to ever go off. After playing for a few hours though (and trying to get it to go off the whole time) it started to work on occasion. I started wondering if maybe the device used to measure tilt was just too tight since it was new and needed to loosen up some.

Has anyway has anyone else had this problem? Also, has anyone taken apart the rock band guitar and knows exactly what the tilt device is? I may end up sending it back but I think its something that can be fixed and the guitar works so well on all other aspects that I don't want to send it in.

 

[randay]

im pretty sure its just an accelerometer. shouldnt need to be broken in. you may be holding the guitar too high of an angle to begin with? or swinging it on the wrong axis or something.

 

[RandomFool]

My wired RB guitar's tilt is funky in the same way. I just learned to live with it since I didn't want to RMA the guitar again.

 

[torpid]

It seems the same as the 360 wired one to me. Neither work well. Me and my friends all keep our pinky on the select button to activate overdrive.

 

[VashHT]

You can just use the select button? Damn I've been doing it the hard way I never knew I could just do that lol. I hold mine at a pretty low angle, almost flat actually and then tilt straight up so I don't think angle is the problem.

@randay I don't think its accelerometer because I've played laying back in a chair and it'll just keep going off, so I think its triggered by something that changes position with the actual tilt.

 

[erwos]

The tilt function on the Rock Band guitars requires you to hold it perfectly horizontal (or below!) and then swing it up. Starting with an angle won't work. This is a known design defect.

It's also the reason that, even if I didn't want to play Guitar Hero, I'd be replacing it with a wireless Les Paul ASAP.

 

[shlemielo]

Weird...mine seems to be overly sensitive. If I even remotely tilt the guitar, it activates overdrive.

 

[VashHT]

Originally posted by: erwos
The tilt function on the Rock Band guitars requires you to hold it perfectly horizontal (or below!) and then swing it up. Starting with an angle won't work. This is a known design defect.

It's also the reason that, even if I didn't want to play Guitar Hero, I'd be replacing it with a wireless Les Paul ASAP.

Wierd, my wired one is really easy to use, much easier than my wireless one. All I have to do is lean over while playing and it works.

As for the GH3 guitar, I don't like it so that's not an option, I would rather hit select than be forced to use the les paul controller.

 

[Spongo]

the only problem i've had with mine is that screw that holds the battery door closed broke in two while i was unscrewing it to put the batteries in. 1/2 the screw is in the guitar...

 

[gorcorps]

Originally posted by: erwos
The tilt function on the Rock Band guitars requires you to hold it perfectly horizontal (or below!) and then swing it up. Starting with an angle won't work. This is a known design defect.

It's also the reason that, even if I didn't want to play Guitar Hero, I'd be replacing it with a wireless Les Paul ASAP.

BS... my original RB guitar worked from a pretty severe angle being tilted straight up. I had to replace it because of the strum bar and now tilting doesn't work at all.

 

[AsianriceX]

Originally posted by: randay
im pretty sure its just an accelerometer. shouldnt need to be broken in. you may be holding the guitar too high of an angle to begin with? or swinging it on the wrong axis or something.

It's not an accelerometer. It's a cheapie ball bearing in a cylinder switch. If you open it up, you'll see 2 inside at different angles for righty and lefty modes.

Sometimes the ball gets stuck and you have to shake it violently for it to unstick. I've heard of people swapping them out for more reliable (and more toxic, less environmentally friendly) mercury based gravity switches.

 

[Oyeve]

Been thinking of getting the wireless but need to know one thing: Is it the nice quiet magnetic strum like on the replacement RB guitars or is it the loose contact ones?

 

[VashHT]

Originally posted by: AsianriceX

Originally posted by: randay
im pretty sure its just an accelerometer. shouldnt need to be broken in. you may be holding the guitar too high of an angle to begin with? or swinging it on the wrong axis or something.

It's not an accelerometer. It's a cheapie ball bearing in a cylinder switch. If you open it up, you'll see 2 inside at different angles for righty and lefty modes.

Sometimes the ball gets stuck and you have to shake it violently for it to unstick. I've heard of people swapping them out for more reliable (and more toxic, less environmentally friendly) mercury based gravity switches.

So I took it apart and fixed it, now the tilt works great and the guitar is practically perfect. I just wanted to point out that the two tilt switches in the wireless guitar are part of the same circuit, BOTH must be tripped in order to activate the tilt function. I believe one of the metal balls was stuck on mine, now it activates easily and never accidentally either.

EDIT: Just to add, yes the wireless guitar uses the magnetic switches for the strum bar, its great.

 

[JorynnRace]

Just wanted to chime in that my wireless 360 guitar is working as it should. The buttons clack more then my wired guitar, but some people prefer it like that, so it doens't matter much to me.