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Calibration
What Is Calibration?
Calibrating ensures the best gameplay experience possible. If you feel like there is a delay between what you're seeing and hearing, you’ll want to calibrate your system.
Why Calibrate?
In some cases, particularly with HDTV systems, the audio and video may play at different times, making it difficult to play the right note at the right time. If you are ready to blame your TV for your less-than-stellar musicianship, try calibrating your system. To calibrate your system, select CALIBRATION from the Console Settings in the Options menu. (If your television has a “Game Mode” setting, you’ll want to be sure that you’re using that as well).
How Do I Calibrate?
From the MAIN MENU, scroll down to OPTIONS. Select OPTIONS. Once there you can select CALIBRATION. You can calibrate your game automatically or manually.
Auto Calibration:
If you have a Rock Band™ Wireless Fender™ Stratocaster™ Guitar Controller, select CALIBRATE AUTOMATICALLY. (Rock Band 4 guitars will work as well as previous generations of Rock Band Wireless Fender Stratocaster Guitar Controllers).
When you are prompted, hold your controller up to your sound system speaker or your TV’s speaker (wherever the sound is coming from) as close as possible without touching.
The volume should be set to a comfortable listening volume. If you have trouble in a room with a surround system, turning the volume down sometimes helps. Hold your guitar controller there until prompted.
To calibrate your system’s video timing, when you are prompted, hold your controller up to your TV screen, with the guitar controller facing the TV and as close to the TV as possible without touching.
This tends to work best in darker rooms, so either turn the lights down or angle the guitar slightly downwards away from the light. Hold your guitar controller there until prompted. You should now be ideally calibrated!
Test out a song in Quickplay to make sure it feels right. If not, try auto-calibrating again, or try calibrating manually.
Manual Calibration:
If you would prefer to calibrate manually, select CALIBRATE MANUALLY. You can also select ENTER CALIBRATION NUMBERS to manually set the audio latency compensation by pressing the directional buttons.
- Select OPTIONS from the main menu, then SYSTEM SETTINGS, then CALIBRATION, and finally CALIBRATE MANUALLY.
- Each time you hear a drum beat, press the S button/strum/hit the green pad in time with the beat you hear.
- Proceed to Step 2: VIDEO CALIBRATION. When you see the needle hit either side of the meter, press the strum or hit the green pad in time with the needle. Your system is now calibrated. Test it out!
Manually Set Numbers
If you can’t get an ideal calibration using auto calibration or manual calibration, try setting your calibration numbers by hand. Select ENTER CALIBRATION NUMBERS from the Calibration menu and check out the chart below. These numbers can be a useful starting point to help you find the best settings for your television type. Try starting with the numbers below and adjust gradually as needed until the settings feel just right. LCD 1 Audio 80, Video 50 LCD 2 Audio 15, Video 30 CRT Audio 0, Video 0 DLP Audio 15, Video 60 Rear-Projection Audio 5, Video 50 Plasma Audio 50, Video 50
Once you’ve gone through all the steps, try testing your work in Quickplay to see if you’ve gotten the calibration right. If it’s still not perfect, try calibrating again.