Going forward I will be using a mixer to play Rocksmith alongside a Peavy amp so the Real Tone Cable at the jack end won't be moving much. Thankfully mine hasn't failed but to be honest I haven't used Rocksmith a lot since I bought it. It would not be difficult to cut the moulded end off and replace it with a Neutrik connector or similar, however, it does mean stripping wires and soldering. This seems to be a common point of failure in these cables. The cable itself is a good thick cable but being a moulded type connector it's impossible to know how much strain relief there is inside. You can do this in the Control Panel easy enough.Īnother criticism is the non-serviceable mono jack. It did need to be setup to 'record' at 48khz though as it was set by default to 44.1khz, which may cause latency in game (this might be the fault of Windows rather than the cable). Seems to work just fine with Rocksmith 2014 on Windows 10. Just overpriced considering it's a glorified USB cable. Further, this isn't a "get what you pay for" kind of deal but an "overpriced for what it is" kind of deal, so I'd advise waiting for the price to be no more than £20.99, if preferably £19.99 and below, before committing.īut why the four stars? Well it does work well enough, the cable is more than long enough, fairly durable, and opens the way to learning to play the guitar. It does smart to be held over the barrel like this (as it is effectively an anti-piracy device as well), especially if you have much better audio equipment. 24-bit recording is not possible (but is with my SoundBlaster, just going through the line-in at that). A better idea would have been to have the breakaway design before the sound chipset housing, so as to be able to use alternative guitar cables if needed.Īs much as the description claims being able to record at 48Khz, for the purposes of Rocksmith you'll be locked into 16-bit 44.1Khz which leaves recording at 16-bit 48Khz for third-party applications like Audacity. However, the "breakaway" design is between the USB connector and the built-in sound chipset - so if you suffer a problem, you will have to replace the entire cable anyway, which defeats the whole purpose. Now that being said, it is a long cable (11.25ft/3,429m) and thicker than the cheap USB cable I bought to try and doesn't suffer the interference that the cheap one does. I was lucky to get mine for £20.48 (usually nearer to the £24.99 RRP) with used prices being at or near the price I paid, certainly if you bought Rocksmith original/2014 editions on Steam in a sale (like I did) then £20+ is far too much for what is, essentially, just a USB cable with a sound card chipset at one end and a guitar adaptor at the other.
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