Previous thread disappeared also seems Amazon lowered the price by another £2 since this morning. Previously £50 now £35.99
All current stock gone but back in stock November 15
Rocksmith 2014 Edition is the fastest way to learn guitar.* Plug in any real guitar or bass and join over 2 million people learning with the award-winning Rocksmith method.
Rocksmith 2014 Edition is bigger, better, and faster than ever. Rebuilt from the ground up, you'll experience vastly improved features, a new look, more flexible and deeper practice tools, new techniques and tunings, over 50 new hit songs, and much more.
With the revolutionary Session Mode, Rocksmith 2014 Edition takes guitar learning to the next level by allowing you to play guitar with a virtual band that follows your every lead. Select from an assortment of backing instruments or styles, and Session Mode reacts to the notes you play. Record your jams so you can review them or share them with the world.
All current stock gone but back in stock November 15
Rocksmith 2014 Edition is the fastest way to learn guitar.* Plug in any real guitar or bass and join over 2 million people learning with the award-winning Rocksmith method.
Rocksmith 2014 Edition is bigger, better, and faster than ever. Rebuilt from the ground up, you'll experience vastly improved features, a new look, more flexible and deeper practice tools, new techniques and tunings, over 50 new hit songs, and much more.
With the revolutionary Session Mode, Rocksmith 2014 Edition takes guitar learning to the next level by allowing you to play guitar with a virtual band that follows your every lead. Select from an assortment of backing instruments or styles, and Session Mode reacts to the notes you play. Record your jams so you can review them or share them with the world.
any electic type guitar would be fine
What's the cheapest you'd go in terms of quality wise with one? I mean, for the other poster he's probably worth investing a bit more if his sons into it. But for someone like me who wants to give it a try but might not overly get into it, is there a line you don't want to be crossing when buying cheap?
Anything Squire or Epiphone will do the trick mate can get a half decent one for around £150-200 and dont forget Black Friday is coming up
Go to a local guitar shop, find a used brand name electric for £100 (Korean Squier, Ibanez, Yamaha etc), and ask the shop to throw in a free set-up. They'll probably say yes to get the sale. A quality set-up is the most important thing whatever the make, a beginner won't progress very well on a badly set up guitar. Think of a learner driver coping with a sticking clutch, a really loose gear stick and a badly cracked windscreen.
There are always some gems in the dirt. I am very much into audio, and for 30 quids you get hi-fi stuff with Superlux HD668B headphones. Comparable to multiple hundreds.
Thanks for all the input!
I'll head down and see what there is - need to go visit GAME to return anything anyways so worth a look. That analogy rings home true though
I'll also have a little search on Gumtree and the like see if theres anything decent nearby - its probably worth learning how to restring the guitar anyways to be fair
Was actually going to invest in a pair of Superlux headphones, although I bought some speakers instead as my ears fatigue far too quickly due to my glasses with most headphones. Have a cheap but decent pair of Sonys for when I need peace and quiet.
Hopefully I'll get into it, I've always wanted to play guitar but I need the motivation with learning things X) Have an old Acoustic in the attic my uncle gave me and in the 10 years I've had it it hasn't been touched once sadly.
You can buy a pick-up for the acoustic guitar for £8 - don't know how good they are and if they would work with Rocksmith but cheaper than buying an electric...
You can but a new one will cost you about £20
Some work some don't from what I can see online.
They don't have it in stock though, do they?
Haven't even got a delivery date for mine. X)
If any other HUKDers has one of these i'd love to hear what they think of it.
Keep an eye out for the Steam Xmas Sale in December if you can hold out - maybe get the cable separate
I haven't tried it on pc myself but my friends who have it on pc also say that you can add custom songs to the game on pc, download songs that aren't normally available. Don't think that's an official feature but might be worth checking if your favourte band is not in the list.
I was looking at the Pacifica too and this deal looks like a pretty good starter kit if they can fufill the order.
Anyone had experience of using Andertons music?
If you live anywhere near Romford you might want to try the Musicland shop, i seem to recall they had these for £150 in-store a while back, although it might have been a bit more than that. There seem to be two different versions of this pack, one with the guitar bag and one without. The bag gets some pretty poor reviews, so you may be better off with the other pack if you can find it cheaper. Amazon did it for about £135 a month or two back but it's now nearer £160.
As for what type of guitar to buy, making progress in guitar needs practise, so buy whatever guitar makes you want to pick it up and play it. Pure acoustic guitars I dont think will work, as the software uses the realtone cable input. Which requires a pickup of some kind.
As a beginner I found hitting the wrong string to be a problem. I found coloured strings that match rocksmiths colouring system helped me a lot. 6th string red, 5th string yellow, 4th string blue, 3rd string orange, 2nd string green, and 1st string purple. Dr neon was the maker and they about 8 quid a set on ebay. This is a lot more than some strings cost, but it helped me.
Also getting the instrument you do buy set up properly is a must. This is about string height and various other adjustments that make the guitar easier to play. In some cases a guitar is so badly out of adjustment rocksmith wont recognise the notes you play even if its the right string and fret, because of this.
Im a fan of RS14
Checked the strings out, seems like a neat idea. However quite a few reviews say that the colours are coming off easy, how are yours holding up?
Thanks for the info, unfortunately I'm in Glasgow!
I think I'm going to bite at £151 as it's the red guitar I'm after and £150 seems a decent price. When the guitar alone is £125 then the extra £25 for strap, amp etc seems like a no brainer. Checked camelcamelcamel and the same pack on Amazon has only been cheaper for a week or 2 over the last few years and that was probably the black one anyway.
Just need to wait and see whether they can fulfill it as nowhere else seems to have the red guitar pack.
P.S. I still can't do pinch harmonics properly :-[ :-)
Yeah, it was only the black one in that Amazon pack. If your order doesn't work out you might want to check out the well-reviewed normans.co.uk as they do the various colours individually for £125, and you can get a few quid back off the cashback sites. Also, they are on ebay so if another 20% off coupon pops up like the other week then you'd be better off buying the bits separately on there.
Never would have thought of coloured strings, i'll check those out, ta.
I received the guitar pack within a couple of weeks despite the order needing to be sourced directly from the supplier. Now all I need are some new fingers! X)
PS. I have order Rocksmith Original for the PS3 for £2.50, apparently you can transfer the songs across for a fee of £6, nice inexpensive way to double your song list.
I can't really see the advantage of coloured strings tbh, I'm getting much better at string selection already with a bit of practice......chords, on the other hand, are an absolute bitch!!
does anyone know,if you already have it for ps3 does the game link song progress? or would all the ps4 songs start from 0% ??