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    JaiFriday's Avatar Junior Member
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    Cable and or gain settin issues on XBOX is driving me nuts....

    Apologies first if I have placed this thread in the wrong place

    I have been using rocksmith and rocksmith 2014 and found them amazing tools to use as intermediate player

    I have always found that I have had background white noise on my guitars I have 3 and it has got worse and worse so ....fingers point to the cable to start with ...

    I have patiently read through so many forums and the answers range from cheap guitars, pickups, bad setups on guitar through to the quality of the rocksmith cables.
    I have even bought new cable and that hasn't made a difference either.

    I have 3 guitars , an Ibanez X series glaive , an Epiphione futura prophecy and a Schecter Diamond series synester gates signature all have been put through a pro guitar tech for the setups just in case that was the prob also

    Now the issue doesn't make sense I have adjusted the gain setting from default to a range of -6 to -14 and you get and the white noise suppress but then you lose sustain.
    and when you reduce the white noise to a minimal level touching the string causes the noise to increase... so must be an earthing problem.

    BTW none of this occurs plugged into my amp, so I have eliminated everything down to the cable or game on the xbox. I will be testing it out on the original Rocksmith to see its any better worse.......

    Has there been any proof in the cables been cheep or is there any kind of thing i may of missed that could help?

    Cheers

    Jai
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    Kynlore's Avatar Senior Member
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    Certainly sounds like a ground problem. If it's not a ground problem on the guitar itself then it could be the outlet and/or surge protector the Xbox is plugged into. Florescent lights can cause hum.
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    Cheers for the input I may have to see if I can borrow/use someone elseAs for XBOX to eliminate that down,

    However there are 5 usb's on an XBox 2 front 3 back and being from an IT background I know you can have weaker usb ports in pc's that a re piggy back on to the main ones, don't know if that's the case but even still makes no difference pluggin front or back , which could mean there's a main board issue on the XBOX , who knows

    as for florescent lights causing hum, I'm gonna take everything to another room incase i have some kinda other exterior interference, I have a fridge freezer 6 foot away from my and the xbox sits inches from the telly be interesting to see if it makes any difference
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    Just for an update in case any of this may help others in any way

    I moved my Xbox to another room , another telly and turned anything else off in the room that could cause interference, and no difference
    Spent a good hour swapping between my 3 guitars adjusting the gain setting, did notice that my ibanez was more sensitive then my other two guitars (could be down to the ibanez pickups)...
    And the two real tone cables found one gave off a little more interference than the other so i ditched it out of the equation.

    I cleaned the better cable , and went to the length of taking apart the xbox , and had a air pressure gun and blew all the **** out of it including the usb ports.... and....almost BINGO it as substatially improved the issue (Btw the gain setting i had on was -10.8Db but that may be down to just my guitars and may not apply to everyone)

    I have clean'ish sound back again, a bit of a crackle when fretting and the sustain is better but still drops out 3/4 seconds (on all three guitars) but its playable

    So the conclusion is , i think its the quality of the cable maybe there some bad batches of em about i don't know (not everyone's comaplaining are they) and a little towards the quality the guitar's hardware , remember it's not innotaions or action as all three guitars have has a good guitar tech on em... it will have to do , on a plus note this just means i will spend more time using my amp and going out jamming
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    Bad cables do happen occasionally.

    Do you have access to another cable to try?
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    I have my washer/dryer on the other side of the wall and noticed I get some hum when the dryer is on.
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    Hi Jai,
    You've done a bunch of troubleshooting already but could you please try the rest of the tips here?
    https://support.ubi.com/en-US/FAQ/35...0000000eeDuCAI

    Also, if you have a Kinect plugged in try unplugging it.

    If you're still having issues please create a Ticket with Support.

    Thanks
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    I will go through the support sheet , To be honest didn't even think of plugging it into me PC to test,

    I don't have a Kinect installed,

    but will raise ticket if I do fix
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    And the finallly conclusion DAMN IT lol

    Went the the link from support to test cable/guitar in pc, recording devices shows it a mcirophone and device manager shows it a Rocksmith usb so fine......

    and although i am putting it through my laptop with rubbish speakers the guitar is clear no obvious interference <All fingers point towards the XBOX 360>

    Still not happy with that conclusion the kids have a singing game with mic input that works clear as a bell ?!?!? but it doesn't have a little ****le/digitizer whatsit the real tone has

    So just to shut this once and for all I am gonna use a mates XBOX 360 to prove that there is something wrong with my console....

    PS Could it be corruption on the Rocksmith 2014 part installed on my Hard disk,

    If i get problems with it on another XBOX 360 where does that take me?

    At this moment in time i don't think raising a support ticket is worth it until I test further.

    ...just one of those things , may get Rocksmith on pc if all else fails its still worth it as i love it to mucn

    Thanks all

    Jaii
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    Could be a bad USB port on the Xbox. Do you have another device you could plug into it to try?
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