Easier way to activate OD. on RB3?

**Xepher850** · Joined: 09 Jul 2009 Posts: 1294

I'm trying to FC Subdivisions and I'm literally having to shout, LOUD, into the mic to get it to activate. Does anybody know any easier ways to activate? Just using a stock RB2 mic.
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**singemfrc** · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 4407 Location: California

A few tips:

With the new patch, the game seems to take note of ambient noise and require something louder (thus avoiding auto-activations), so if you have a lot of noise or have your game sound high, turn it down some and you should be able to avoid screaming. When playing by myself I activate in a normal speaking voice. When I had some friends over and I had the game playing loudly through the stereo, we couldn't get it to activate no matter how loud we screamed, even with the mic literally in my mouth.

The game also seems to prefer if your activation noise is not in the same octave as whatever you're singing, so if you're doing falsetto, use a low voice.

I've also had better success using a varied pitch, going up and down (like a motor revving), rather than one quick shout or one stable pitch.
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**CyberRaiza** · Joined: 02 Oct 2008 Posts: 1194

i was wondering this myself cause its really hard to activate vocals when you have half a second in between lines and you need to jump to a higher octave and back down (I'm not really a good vocalist) so thanks I'll try some of these.

I've also found tapping the mic (like for cowbell) somewhat forcibly can activate it so this could be an easy way of not needing to strain your voice.
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**Serj42** · Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 47

Was going to make a new topic about this but this seems like the right place to post this . The new patch makes it so that Vocal OD can be activated with the "back " or "select" button now. I personally love this as I've always had trouble activating during smaller windows.

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**singemfrc** · Joined: 10 Aug 2007 Posts: 4407 Location: California

Found a HUGE glitch in this. Using select button to activate overdrive will, just like pressing start, negate overdrive if your activation happens to be inside of an overdrive phrase. (See first activation of me enamora) So if its a BOD or a DOD don't use select!
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**Iggy-Sparks** · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:31 pm Post subject:

Are you sure about it?
I tried to play "The Beautiful People" and played the DOD activation with SELECT, the star power was added to the star power that was running.

EDIT : Just FCed Me amonera using only select button, no problem for me.
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**r0bd0g** · Joined: 21 Feb 2010 Posts: 327 Location: Canada

I'd prefer to be able to press a button to activate, but, I'm on Wii. My main concern here is that it puts the Wii at a huge disadvantage. Any Wii vocalists in the leagues should just drop out now, and save themselves a ton of headaches. And in band, there's going to be the occasional FRS, AS, or PB that would be impractical to perform on Wii, in the online setting.

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**LucasPWNS8907** · Joined: 11 Apr 2009 Posts: 181

all i can say to this is it's about time! it took them 5 games to implement this, something guitar hero vocalists have had the luxary of since day 1 (although those engines are by no means flawless).
i do feel bad for the people that squeezed the hell out of songs on rb3 with the old method because you can activate later or as late very simply now. at this point it all comes down to actual squeezing and not just activating.
on another note, some of my rb2 paths came back (since i never used pause button activating) which i'm very happy about but i imagine there may be a few other paths that change. for example, on "are you dead yet" there's an easier optimal due to a reverse squeeze that wasn't possible on the other engines because no matter what you did you couldn't shoot off the OD any earlier (new path is 5/RS! 2/ if anyone wants to try it),
now, if only we could get rid of the 99% glitch...

EDIT: path is 5/RS! 2/AS yielding 4k higher than old first place with 4/sk1-ES 3/
i didn't think the AS was possible but upon further inspection (i was recording a video run so people could see this path) i ended up squeezing it out. i'll post video with accompanying path in the path thread

**Nimmy** · Joined: 29 Apr 2009 Posts: 15

I just tested on Space Oddity (2/PB 2/) and the back/select button works well, you don't need to do the PB trick anymore. That's great, and maybe significant for multiplayer..