Comments on: Guitar Hero: World Tour Guitar — Best Fake Plastic Axe Ever?

By: johnmalovich

johnmalovich — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:00:14 +0000

yeah right, i have this guitar and i hate it with a passion! the buttons work fine but there is one problem, the strum bar barely works!! i would love it if the combined the world tour guitar with the les paul. with the neck of the world tour and the strum bar of the les paul, except make it a little longer. and improve on the slider because i hate that too :) lol

By: SethB

SethB — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:29:53 +0000

I must agree that the WT guitar is an excellent guitar, although in the reliability category, I have found my GH3 Les Paul to be the best. I’ve had my GH3 guitar for almost 2 years now, stick works great! My WT guitar is sitting on my desk all opened waiting for me to buy a new strum bar switch because the game won’t register any downward strums (I mostly use downwards.) I must say that my GH3 guitar and my GH:WT guitar (when working) beat the SHIT out of either Rock Band 1/2 guitars. I absolutely despise the strum bar on both of them. I can never tell whether I hit something or not because there is no feedback. You jsut move this little knob down till it hits the guitar and hope it strummed. I personally like the click feeling. It makes me feel like I hit a string on a real guitar instead of playing air guitar (like RB and RB2) with no feedback. The WT guitar had some amazing improvements, but my GH3 guitar is still more reliable

By: deifist@gmail.com

deifist@gmail.com — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:26:19 +0000

I’m glad I have the ability to leave a comment; I was just browsing around websites.
The Guitar Hero World Tour guitar seems great and all fancy with its color and sharp looks but beware!
The paint on the guitar has no glossy finish so the paint peels off with a scratch, eventhough the faceplate is removable, who is going to go out and but one realisticly?
Secondly the slide bar really is a pain for you may notice they take the full room of a fret right, should be rite, rite? WRONG!
When you are actually using the buttons you may notice that your finger is only using about 3/5ths of the fret for the button only takes that ammount, so your finger cooralation is wrong.
THIRD The buttons are a bit harder to press down, this is a great factor for those who are post-expert and love soloing.
FORTH The strum bar slowly but surely looses its “precise” strumming and leaves you with about 3/4 of an inch to strum, unrealistic!
But the whammy bar is a good part, though it’s just a whammy. only good for star power.
I use the GH2 controller for PS2 over the new World Tour one.
Altered the strummer of the GH2 Strummer, took away about 1mm of play. Works GREAT!
I’ll tell you how to do this simple trick of taking the play out of your strummer at deifist@gmail.com
Any comments please email me at deifist@gmail.com
Please tell me why you agree/disagree upon my verdict.
deifist@gmail.com

By: joshua

joshua — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:13:44 +0000

hi im a guitar hero fanatic and my fav guitar is the les paul. i recently received world tour as a gift with the guitar and it has a few problems, i found that the whammy bar squeeks a little and the strum bar squeeks alot but im not too morried about that, my main issue is that when you strum down, the guitar doesnt register all of the strums, it gets all of the up strums but not the down ones, i wanted to try to fix this because i called red octane and even know its still under warranty, they want 12$ for shipping and handling so i would rather fix it myself. after i took the faceplate off and got all the torque screws out, there were 4 more very small looking ones that are silver right by the neck. does anyone know what kind of screws and what size they are? thanks

By: soulcrusher

soulcrusher — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:51:14 +0000

I like the guitar but I find that my strum bar sticks from time to time. I also prefered the RB 1 Strat silinced strum bar. I got into tapping all the notes in songs with the sticking strum bar but it was to easy that way and less authentic.

By: Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 03:11:18 +0000

IanAKAIan, glad to hear lubricating the frets worked! Tim, I definitely would recommend the lithium grease crayon treatment on the button edges. It’s quite a difference before and after.

http://www.fakeplasticrock.com/2008/03/23/lubricating-your-guitar-fret-buttons/

By: lanAKAIan

lanAKAIan — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 02:33:25 +0000

Well this inspired me to take apart my own guitar. Unless I made sure to press down the frets in the center, they would rub against the bottom and would not necessarily fire. I was unable to find the grease crayons anywhere. Eventually I went to a local pepboys and bought a liquid version that came in a tube. I have a star t-10 screwdriver around the house and took the guitar apart. What I found was one more star screw… only this on was not the t-10. Also, it was the one screw keeping me from greasing the frets. Anyway what ended up working for the inner screw was a T-6 size. First tests have everything working much better, and no problems with sticking frets.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:42:59 +0000

Although I completely agree with you, I do have a question that you may be able to answer.

I am having a lot of trouble with this new guitar, but I am unsure that it is any technical issue. When I am using the GH:WT guitar, the buttons sometimes seem to “stick.” I am unsure if that is the correct term to use, but the result is that I find it difficult to hit fast changing note sections without missing at least one out of every four or five notes. Oddly, this seems to happen in RB2 more than GH:WT, though it may just be coincidence. Is it possible it’s just because it is still new and needs to be “worked in?” Should I be worried? Or is it possible I just need to do the lubrication mod on the buttons? I don’t think it matters, but as a note, before switching to this guitar I was still using the wired Xbox 360 Guitar Hero 2 control.