Mic lag and going up in difficulty

**Oxi** · Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 224 Location: Montreal, Canada

I'm playing with the mic that came with the game, I was pretty horrible at singing those songs when I got it, but I am getting better (most of my friends suck at all the instruments and I hate playing expert when everyone else is on medium so I inherited the vocalist spot...) Anyway, I finally got around to finishing vocal career on medium, bjt I find that even the songs that I can 100% every time with ease on medium, I can't get much better than 90% on expert. Seems that the mic lag is killing me, I keep going back to singing on time with the track and getting partial misses... also it seems like I'm pretty bad at switching from one note to another sharply, I always kind of waver between two notes before getting on pitch...

Anyway, I remember Nickisimo said he bought a logitech mic and that it was much better for lag, can anyone confirm that or has any tricks to make the lag go away?

Thanks!

**pvtGramps** · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 114

Start about a half second early. A way to get good at this is to fill up your Overdrive, and then start right as the end of a freestyle passes the bar. Your voice will do two things for you:
1.) "Rev-up" so to speak and hit pitch when the line crosses.
2.) Get you real good at hitting the overdrive at the last possible second letting you squeeze like crazy in a band situation where Vocalist overdrive doesn't pause.

I actually switched back to an old PS2 Karaoke Revolution mic after my RB mic broke. I've noticed some improvement.
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**Oxi** · Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 224 Location: Montreal, Canada

Yeah I know I am supposed to start early, I suck at it though, especially when playing another instrument at the same time. Would just be more fun to me to sing on time, and easier. Whole reason I'm singing is to solo X/X endless setlist eventually...

**rrwoods** · Joined: 09 Jul 2007 Posts: 343

The mic lag makes me avoid vocals completely. I can't stand it -- I know I'm singing the right pitch, but the triangle takes time to "lock on" so to speak. I simply don't do vocals in this game anymore because of it. Shame, really.

**Nickisimo** · Joined: 21 Sep 2007 Posts: 774 Location: Charleston, SC

The Logitech mic is better for lag from my personal experience than the bundled mic. It doesn't totally eliminate lag, nor does it make starting things early unnecessary(just a good fundamental thing to do no matter how well you think you know a phrase IMO), but it's substantially better than the mic included in the bundle. Rocker74 said he grabbed a mic that was released by HMX for RB, and the thread is in Vocals somewhere, not sure how the two mics stack up. From what I could gather, they're both better than the bundled mic though, so if you're serious about Vocals, I would suggest checking one of them out.
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**JoshNeff** · Joined: 25 Nov 2007 Posts: 222 Location: Minneapolis, MN

I'm not the best by any means... but if you're ONLY going for points, I'de just make noises before the words start like others are saying.

If you're going for fun, drop the difficulty and just sing... I'de rather sing on medium or hard and play the guitar at the same time then try expert and fail due to singing instead of trying to go early and robotic
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**Oxi** · Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 224 Location: Montreal, Canada

Thanks for the replies. I do usually sing on medium / hard for kicks, but I want to do X/X endless setlist by myself, and I hate it when I play a song I know I can nail on expert and either I gotta unsync myself and it sounds like crap or I get 85% and get jeered :o

Anyways, I'll stop ranting now, thanks.

**Ghazken** · Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 325 Location: Vacaville, CA

**pmswedge** · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 427 Location: San Francisco, CA

I've always just used the Karaoke Revolution mics that I have... haven't really spent much time with the bundled mic except periodically I play with it on my roommate's TV.

I wasn't sure if it was his TV lagging or the mic lagging but I can't really use it... I always just switch back to my KR mic. I'm starting to guess it might be the bundled mic?
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