Fix your 1st gen strum bar

**Killoff** · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject:

Any way to add a click?

**Vanguard** · Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 14

It's too bad that I just opened up my guitar to see that it's NOTHING like the one in the picture. There's no metal spacers or anything...just a normal switch that's angled in with some shitty foam underneath. A little plastic nub comes off the strum bar to make contact with the switch. Now I'm baffled.

**nfamouswun** · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 11

i opened my guitar today because i had double strum issues. i didnt see the light sensitive tape. when my friend opened his i was playing drums so i didnt really pay attention to him. i just heard him cursing about it. im gonna ask him exactly what he saw. he pulled it out and kind of waved it at me but i was preoccupied. but since i didnt see one in mine just disregard what i said for now until it up with him on monday.

my guitar had the switches in the picture and it fixed the double strum problem i had like a charm.

**BobDole** · Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 2150 Location: Troy, New York

Vanguard, it sounds like you may have a newer model of the guitar. When did you get it? Also, are you having any problems with it? If you are, then are they the same problems people with the "old" strumming system are having?
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**sanchny** · Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Bronx, NY

Excellent post, very detailed. Haven't tried it, but if mine craps out then I hope the inside of my guitar is the same as the one in the first post so I can try this.
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**Tamran** · Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 48

**Vanguard** · Joined: 31 Oct 2006 Posts: 14

Yep, that's exactly what mine looks like. I picked up my stuff from an EB Games 6 days after launch. The problem I'm having is the same exact thing as everyone else...downstrums won't work. The thing that made me so upset about mine is that it crapped out after no more than an hour and a half.

**BobDole** · Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 2150 Location: Troy, New York

Tamran, are those white pieces of tape the light sensitive pieces? Did they change color or anything when you opened the guitar up?
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**krimsunmunkeys** · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:19 am Post subject:

This guide fixed my doublestrum problem (which was pissing me off to no end), so this gets the Krim Seal of Approval (tm).

Stickied. (b^^)b

**Tamran** · Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 48

**metasynthie** · Joined: 05 Nov 2007 Posts: 77 Location: New York, NY

Whoo I went from a downstrum that only worked 50% of the time to almost FCing "Reptilia" with only downstrums! (And the two missed notes were totally my mistake.) Thanks so much for the guide!

**DesktopMan** · Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 64

As an early importer in Europe I was angry but not surprised when down strum started double strumming randomly. I haven't tried the guide yet but I think i will.

Have anyone asked for replacements shipped somewhere else than the US or Canada? (e.g. regions it's not on sale yet)

**nfamouswun** · Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 11

i talked to my friend about the tape. he said there is a piece of plastic wedged between the two halves of the guitar so that when it seperates it comes out.

**poiuytman** · Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 13

**slickpitt** · Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 589

Tried this and it worked perfect!

Thanks!
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