Rock Band guitar: now with a string!
by Richard Mitchell 
{ Feb 5th 2008 at 1:00PM }
The music genre argument -- why don't you play a real instrument! -- gets more and more vague as industrious gamers begin to meld game instruments with the real thing. The latest in a string of Frankensteinian efforts is a modification to the Rock Band Stratocaster that bestows the guitar with real guitar strings! Well, actually it bestows the instrument with precisely one guitar string, but it's a start, right? Now you might not look quite as ridiculous when you play the game with a pick. How does it work? The string is attached to a switch (the knobby thing on the left in the image above) which is activated when pressure is applied to the string. Ingenious, we say! The only question now is how we get our hands on one. Check out a video of the mod in action after the break.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
xenocidic @ Feb 5th 2008 1:19PM
man it would suck to have to replace that string whenever you rocked out too hard
erik @ Feb 5th 2008 1:23PM
unless it was made from an unbreakable diamond tether!
zlionsfan @ Feb 6th 2008 4:41PM
... in which case whatever the string was tethered to would break.
Sambo @ Feb 5th 2008 5:10PM
If they made the guitar with the string instead of the strum bar, I would have worshiped it! I hate RB's strum bar! The string would go SO MUCH better than the strum bar! Great job with the mod! Harmonix, use strings instead of strum bars!
kazuya @ Feb 5th 2008 10:18PM
It doesn't quite work the way I expected. It would be pretty difficult to make a string mod work with a pick though.