The Les Paul: A dying breed of controller?

**eddyf**

I've always been an LP fan and all my biggest GH achievements were done on LPs. Unfortunately my LP stopped working a while ago (it won't turn on. I'm not sure why, but I did several mods to it, so it's probably my fault), so I had to start using my WT guitar. It was unreliable, especially the strumming--it would randomly overstrum when the strum bar moved back into neutral position (even if I tried to strum very lightly) and I think it missed strums sometimes too. Well, by and by my WT guitar broke too. The blue button is completely nonresponsive. I think I could fix it, but I haven't opened it up to see (my warranty's long expired anyway).

But to get to the point... when my second and last working controller broke, that gave me an excuse to go out and buy another one. I wanted to buy a Les Paul because it's my favorite controller and by far the one that I'm best on. But get this: I checked Wal-Mart and two different GameStops and neither had any standalone LPs for the 360, or even GH3 bundles for that matter. They both had a few left for PS2 and PS3, but none on 360. I asked the guy at GameStop to check if they were getting any shipments, and he couldn't even find the controller in their system.

I managed to get lucky. I checked Toys 'R Us and they had no standalone LPs, but they had ONE GH3 bundle left. It was on clearance for $50. I bought it and now I have another copy of GH3 that I have to sell or something. But it looks like places are trying to get rid of all their GH3 bundles and LPs never to sell them again. And that's sad. Will we be stuck using the WT guitar, which is expensive because of the extra touch pad hardware that I haven't even used since the day I got WT (not to mention the unreliable strum bar)?

It'll be a sad day when there are no more new LPs on the market.
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**DESMO56** · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:44 am Post subject:

the same goes for my Gamestop and EB games, when i was looking theyy had tons of used ones for ps3, no new ones anywhere and none for the 360. i found a few standalones at walmart, but of course i didn't need them then
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**Prong1978** · Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 2257 Location: Flint, Michigan

Xplorer users are in the same situtation. Luckily for us they've been available at ridiculously low prices lately so we could "stock up." I would recommend that if you see another one you pick up a spare or two.
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**guitarheroloover** · Joined: 21 Jul 2008 Posts: 92

With the World Tour guitar, just try turning off the slider for the overstrumming problem
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**Brockbfball1563** · Joined: 29 Apr 2007 Posts: 3245 Location: Rochester, NH

Do they not realize that the Les Paul is by far the best guitar ever for the 360 (except for the whole detachable neck thing)? Honestly, the WTar is crap (strum bar problems and select button was moved for absolutely no reason) and the X-plorers have shitty select buttons and a whammy bar that takes a split second to actually start whammy (if you just care about FCs and not high scores, than X-plorers are fine, but I play for score). And don't even get me started on the RB guitars.

I still find it funny that the ONLY guitar that actually works is my red SG that I bought USED a LONG time ago. The only thing that ever went wrong with them was an occasional broken whammy bar, which can be fixed with an elastic and nothing else. Is it that hard to just create a Les Paul with no detachable neck and sell it to the public?
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**Darkest** · Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 932 Location: Cleveland, Ohio

eBay.
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**tendedjoshSH** · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:11 am Post subject:

dont ask me how but i got lucky my WTar has been working since i got it for christmas and ive did some good shit with it too
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**Venim619** · Joined: 07 Jan 2008 Posts: 1546 Location: Serdio, Endiness

Yeah, ever tried looking for RB2 drums recently? And those are relatively new.

**eddyf** · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 2:25 am Post subject:

NOO, don't hardwire the LP. I need the detachable neck. I transport my controllers back and forth between home and college, and without the detachable neck they wouldn't fit in my luggage. What they should do (even though they probably won't) is make LPs with a neck connection like the WT guitar's.

I saw a bunch of cheap X-plorers (like $10). I did buy one... but I can't take it to school when the summer's over because it won't fit.

guitarheroloover - I turned off the touch pad as one of the first things I did. It's definitely the strum bar. I think I'm going to try replacing the switches with RadioShack ones and see if it fixes the problem.

As for eBay... when that's the last option left I'll consider it, but I'm wary of buying "like new" controllers or "used but in good condition." The people selling these controllers are not hardcore GH gamers--they can't tell when a controller is unreliable. I even saw a controller for sale from a very reputable seller, and in the description it said "When we got the controller, it had a rubber band holding the neck, but we don't know why. We took it off and it stayed in just fine" or something along those lines.
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**thecaptainof** · Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 7571 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

I haven't seen a standalone Les Paul for sale here in... so long I can't remember. Just now, looking at five different UK-based online retailers, they're out of stock everywhere. Even the GH3/Aerosmith guitar bundles are out of stock... so if I want a new guitar (hint: I do) it's gonna have to be third party because I absolutely flat-out fucking refuse to buy another WT guitar - the one I got in the bundle was a pile of shit (currently in pieces until I can be bothered to fork out half the price of a brand new GHWT bundle for two new switches for the strum mechanism and a soldering iron to fit them with) and I've used two equally bad ones elsewhere.
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**sean2490** · Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:21 am Post subject:

!!!!!!

I seriously hope that the LP never goes out of production. It may not be the most reliable, but it's the best guitar on the market (imo).
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**GenericName** · Joined: 21 Feb 2009 Posts: 1630 Location: ¯\(°_o)/¯

Try finding an SG...

I don't think they make those any more.
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