Rock Band mic delay

mudwrx

I see on line that this is a pretty common complaint. I got RB 3 for Christmas and played yesterday. When we try to sing there is a horrible delay of about a half second or so.

This totally screws up the game and makes singing useless. I can't recall if this happened in RB 2, I will need to check.

Some people say to disable the Dolby Digital option, I have not found that to make much of a difference. I also tried calibrating several different ways.

I have an Onkyo AVR with CS2 center, TSi 400's and a Psw 505 sub. One reason to play RB 3 is to crank it up so I can enjoy the music. However right now we can't use the mic with this delay problem.

Anyone else have this? Find any solutions?

(I tried to search forum and did not find this topic, sorry if it is a repeat)

kuntasensei

When you say there's a delay, how do you mean? Like you're not able hit the notes on time because of the calibration?

On my Onkyo, I play RB3 with HDMI lipsync disabled and do MANUAL calibration with the guitar to nail the timing. The auto-calibration can be flaky, especially if you have HDMI lipsync delaying things to match the timing of the signal chain, which can put things so out of line that RB3 can't adjust around it.

mudwrx

kuntasensei wrote: »

When you say there's a delay, how do you mean? Like you're not able hit the notes on time because of the calibration?

On my Onkyo, I play RB3 with HDMI lipsync disabled and do MANUAL calibration with the guitar to nail the timing. The auto-calibration can be flaky, especially if you have HDMI lipsync delaying things to match the timing of the signal chain, which can put things so out of line that RB3 can't adjust around it.

By delay I mean you sing in to the mic and hear your voice, however it does not come out of the speaker at the same time, maybe between a quarter and a half second later. Definitely enough lag to screw things up.

I will have a look at the HDMI lipsync setting, didn't think about that. Thanks for the suggestion.

kuntasensei

Oh... I hate hearing myself come back out of the speaker, so I just turn the volume level down for the mic in the options. But it's because I sing pretty loud. Heh...