Guitar Hero 5 out of tune, help?
Hey everyone. I tried Googling this, but I'm not sure exactly what to do with the info I've found, so I thought I'd ask you lovely folks.
So, we just got Guitar Hero 5 for Wii a few weeks ago when Amazon had the game/guitar bundle as the video game deal of the day. I was excited because I'd wanted a Guitar Hero game for a while, and at first I was happily playing my little video game heart out. But now I'm having a problem that I can't fix. Particularly on sustained notes, the guitar sounds out of tune. Like, really noticeably out of tune, so that songs with lots of long notes are just no fun to play. I know there's something up with the whammy bar that's causing this, because it basically looks like these notes are just automatically whammy-ed (if that makes sense), and tapping the whammy bar no longer affects the sound of a note. But I don't know what to do about it. I've tried turning off the game and unplugging the Wiimote, making sure not to touch the whammy bar while the game is starting up, because I've seen that suggested, but that hasn't helped.
Now, one of my cats loves to chew on things, and managed to chew on the rubber part of the whammy bar, but that shouldn't matter at all, right? Because the whammy bar did work initially, and she chewed it up as soon as I got the guitar out of the box and I had my back turned. But the whammy bar has always been pretty "loose" - it tends not to stay up where I want it so I can reach while playing. Is this part of the problem, and is there a way to make it "stick" in place a little better? Or do I just have a crappy guitar and should complain to Amazon? I just don't get it, because it *has* worked. But some of the info I found about this suggests calibrating the whammy bar, and I can't seem to find anything in-game to do that, and I've also seen links to YouTube videos showing how to take apart the guitar to fix things, but I'm kind of wary of that. So has anyone had this problem before and have any easy fixes?
So, we just got Guitar Hero 5 for Wii a few weeks ago when Amazon had the game/guitar bundle as the video game deal of the day. I was excited because I'd wanted a Guitar Hero game for a while, and at first I was happily playing my little video game heart out. But now I'm having a problem that I can't fix. Particularly on sustained notes, the guitar sounds out of tune. Like, really noticeably out of tune, so that songs with lots of long notes are just no fun to play. I know there's something up with the whammy bar that's causing this, because it basically looks like these notes are just automatically whammy-ed (if that makes sense), and tapping the whammy bar no longer affects the sound of a note. But I don't know what to do about it. I've tried turning off the game and unplugging the Wiimote, making sure not to touch the whammy bar while the game is starting up, because I've seen that suggested, but that hasn't helped.
Now, one of my cats loves to chew on things, and managed to chew on the rubber part of the whammy bar, but that shouldn't matter at all, right? Because the whammy bar did work initially, and she chewed it up as soon as I got the guitar out of the box and I had my back turned. But the whammy bar has always been pretty "loose" - it tends not to stay up where I want it so I can reach while playing. Is this part of the problem, and is there a way to make it "stick" in place a little better? Or do I just have a crappy guitar and should complain to Amazon? I just don't get it, because it *has* worked. But some of the info I found about this suggests calibrating the whammy bar, and I can't seem to find anything in-game to do that, and I've also seen links to YouTube videos showing how to take apart the guitar to fix things, but I'm kind of wary of that. So has anyone had this problem before and have any easy fixes?