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Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock – Coming September 2010

Helen — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:16:58 +0000

Warriors of Rock - The exciting release of the new Guitar Hero Experience is due in September 2010.

New visuals, new art, new stories, new bands, new controllers, same exciting action!

Enter the all new Quest Mode where the voice of KISS legend Gene Simmons narrates an epic story while players attempt to complete songs and challenges to progress the game. The members of the band have the task of releasing the 'Demigod of Rock' from his imprisonment by 'The Beast' by gaining strength through their success and the addition of more band members. One of the final songs in Quest Mode has been co-written by Megadeth's Dave Mustaine with Mustaine stating they were "the most difficult parts" he has written in his life.

GH: Warriors of Rock has a new art style and new visuals, the playlist has been specifically compiled to include huge solos and plenty of guitar shredding action. A newly designed guitar controller will be released with Warriors of Rock and has been specifically designed for shredding.

Playing real instruments to your favourite GH tracks

Steve — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:50:46 +0000

We were recently sent an interesting email by one of our visitors telling us how to record your favorite Guitar Hero tracks for playing along with your real instruments, what better way to show the effect Guitar Hero is having in turning fans of music games into real musicians!

Before we get started we should point out this is not a tutorial on unlawfully coping music for distribution in any way, this is another way fans of the game who own their own copy can use the content on that disk to play the game in a different way. To use this for any other purpose would be unlawful and we do not do not condone it.

What you will need before we start:

Tv, console and Guitar Hero game disc (works with Rock Band also)
The instrument you wish to have DEDUCTED from the final track (i.e. if you want to record drumless tracks for playing with your real drumkit, as we will here, then you will need the Guitar Hero drumkit controller)
PC with a audio input port (see below for more details)
3.5 mm audio cable (go to Amazon store)
Copy of the free audio editing programme Audacity

Setup your equipment as you usually would but plug the 3.5mm cable from the headphone socket on your TV into the line in on your PC (a great visual tutorial for setting up your PC to record from an external input can be found on the Audacity Tutorial pages) and set Audacity up to record from that input.

Start the game and go into the practise mode (so you don't get the crowd noises) choose the song you want and start it up. When the song is about to start pause the game, start Audacity recording and then unpause the game and leave it. If you do not hit any of the notes what you will be recording is the original track without the drum track on it, allowing you to play the drum part on your kit in the garage or wherever it is. This works perfectly well if you are a bassist, guitarist or singer that would like to practise your favourite songs from the game on your real instruments!

To clean up the audio you record have a look at some of the Other Audacity Tutorials for improving your recordings.

Xbox 360 red ring of death fix

GuitarHeroRepair — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:30:14 +0000

The Xbox 360 is a truly amazing games console but it can suffer more than its fair share of hardware faults. The Red Ring of Death (or RRoD as it is better known) is one of the most common. We have seen a few reasons why this happens but there are plenty of guides out there which can help you determine the exact cause of the fault.

Xbox 360 motherboards and chips often need a bit of attention and it can be worth an hour of preventative maintenance to keep your console healthy, even if there is no error.

Xbox 360 repair guide

Many RROD repair guides now come with video and some even have access to a support area, so it's worth looking into. We do have a favourite here which is the highly recommended 'James Dean Xbox 360 RROD fix' It's not free but he does provide some video tutorials and the price is fair for what you get. There is support available and a 60 day money back guarantee, worth asking the question if you're buying a fix rather than trawling the internet for information. The worst help we've seen is the 'cover it with a towel until it overheats' trick. Guaranteed to fry your console and maybe start a small electrical fire.....

For other fixes, here's a few currently available

Microsoft Xbox 360 Pro Console Broken Rrod As Is
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Broken Rrod Xbox 360 Hdmi 175 Watt
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Broken Rrod Xbox 360 Hdmi 203 Watt
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Xbox 360 Console Hdmi As Is For Parts Repair Rrod
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Lot Of 8 Microsoft Xbox 360 Consoles Broken Rrod As Is
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Microsoft Xbox 360 Console As Is Repair Rrod
US $19.99

Xbox 360 Motherboard Rrod
US $8.00

Xbox 360 Rrod
US $25.00

Xbox 360 Broken Rrod Console Only
US $15.50

Guitar Hero 6 – coming soon!

Steve — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:42:20 +0000

We can't say we are surprised to hear it but Guitar Hero 6 is on it's way!

In an interview with Tesla guitarist Dave Rude he let slip that they have been asked to provide one of their tracks for the upcoming release, Modern Day Cowboy is, at the moment, the only track that we are aware of but rest assured more will follow.

There are no more details about the game at the moment, but as soon as information comes out we will pass it straight on to you and in the absence of actual facts lets start some speculation! What tracks or features would you like to see in the new game? Have Activision gone as far as they can with the series now or are there still ideas to come? One thing we would like to see is more of a crossover with DJ Hero, could we see some Limp Bizkit / Linkin Park tracks with a full band and a turntable? With the release of Band Hero to please the not-too-hard music fans will Guitar Hero 6 pick up where Guitar Hero 2 and 3 left off - classic rock and harder music?

We would love to hear your thoughts and ideas, just pop them in the comments below!

New Product – Solderless Drum Repair Kit

Steve — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:37:32 +0000

We are very happy to bring you the latest product in our range of repair and upgrade parts for your Guitar Hero Instruments, the long awaited Solderless Drum Repair Kit.

We have been selling a drum repair kit on Guitar Hero Repair for a while now, but the feedback we have been getting is that it is quite fiddly and difficult to fit, well in response to this we have now launched the new version of this kit.

It can be used to fix any of your main drum pads on both the Guitar Hero and Band Hero drum kits and takes no more than 10 minutes to fit with just a screwdriver needed. We have also made a video tutorial to guide you through the installtion process, you can see all of this on the new Solderless Drum Repair Kit page now!

Unbelievable 100% Eddie Van Halen Solo – Eruption

Steve — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:26:40 +0000

This kid is amazing, a true Guitar Hero professional. he has been at the forefront of the Guitar Hero scene since it began and now his latest exploit is to 100% the eruption solo from Eddie Van Halen on expert within 1 hour of getting the game - words can only say so much watch this!

Guitar Hero Van Halen – Free Demo on Xbox Live

Steve — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:15:49 +0000

As we have now come to expect and admire, the release of Guitar Hero Van Halen is being accompanied by a free demo available now on Xbox Live. The demo features 4 playable tracks from the game, they are -Dope Nose (Weezer), End of Heartache (Killswitch Engage), Eruption (Eddie Van Halen Solo), Panama (Van Halen). From playing the demo we can confirm that past fans of the game who think it has now gone too soft and easy will not be disappointed, Eddie Van Halen is known as a master of his art for a very good reason and anyone completing this on expert really needs to consider a career in music! One tip we can give you is you may want to consider ditching your old faithful GH3 guitar in favour of something with a touch slider as there is a lot of crazy sliding solo work to be done!

The Guitar Hero Van Halen game (now the 8th game in the series), features 25 epic Van Halen tracks, 3 special Eddie Van Halen signature solos and 19 guest acts, so as with previous band specific Guitar Hero releases, will be high on the Christmas list of any Van Halen fan.

The full tracklist for the game looks like this:

1978    "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love"    Van Halen
1980    "And the Cradle Will Rock..."    Van Halen
1978    "Atomic Punk"    Van Halen
1979    "Beautiful Girls"    Van Halen
2005    "Best of You"    Foo Fighters
1982    "Cathedral"    Van Halen
2007    "Come to Life"    Alter Bridge
1979    "Dance the Night Away"    Van Halen
2002    "Dope Nose"    Weezer
1978    "Double Vision"    Foreigner
2004    "End of Heartache"     Killswitch Engage
1978    "Eruption"    Van Halen
1980    "Everybody Wants Some!!"    Van Halen
1978    "Feel Your Love Tonight"    Van Halen
2001    "First Date"    Blink-182
1982    "Hang ‘Em High"    Van Halen
1981    "Hear About It Later"    Van Halen
1984    "Hot for Teacher"    Van Halen
1978    "Ice Cream Man"    Van Halen
1978    "I'm the One"    Van Halen
1989    "I Want It All"    Queen
1982    "Intruder/(Oh) Pretty Woman"    Van Halen
1978    "Jamie's Cryin'"    Van Halen
1984    "Jump"    Van Halen
1982    "Little Guitars"    Van Halen
1980    "Loss of Control"    Van Halen
2006    "Master Exploder"    Tenacious D
1981    "Mean Street"    Van Halen
2004    "Pain"    Jimmy Eat World
1990    "Painkiller"    Judas Priest
1984    "Panama"    Van Halen
1998    "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)"    Offspring The Offspring
1995    "Rock and Roll Is Dead"    Lenny Kravitz
1980    "Romeo Delight"    Van Halen
1978    "Runnin' with the Devil"    Van Halen
1978    "Safe European Home"    Clash The Clash
1997    "Semi-Charmed Life"    Third Eye Blind
2007    "Sick, Sick, Sick"    Queens of the Stone Age
1981    "So This Is Love?"    Van Halen
1979    "Somebody Get Me a Doctor"    Van Halen
1972    "Space Truckin'"    Deep Purple
1979    "Spanish Fly"    Van Halen
2003    "Stacy's Mom"    Fountains of Wayne
2007    "Takedown" "The Takedown"    Yellowcard
1981    "Unchained"    Van Halen
1982    "White Wedding (Part 1)"    Billy Idol
1978    "You Really Got Me"    Van Halen

Design your own Guitar Hero Skins

Steve — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:20:54 +0000

GH gamers love their guitars. They also fall into two categories, those that kept them pristine, wrapper fresh and those that covered them with those lovely Activision stickers. To set your guitar apart from the crowd you should look into designing your own Guitar Hero Custom Vinyl Skin.What you have on yours is only limited by your own imagination, you favourite band, your holiday photos, pictures of your dog, anything is possible and this is how easy it is.

Head over to Unique Skins and choose what device you want to design a skin for, they can do it all - Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, games consoles, mobile phones, laptops you name it and they can do it!

Use their excellent online design software to create your ideal custom skin. You can use any selection of text, images and backgrounds from their extensive library and even upload images from your own computer to design exactly what you want.

Once you have played about with your design and got it to you liking just press the add to cart button, enter your payment and shipping details and then couple of days later your personally designed skin will land on your doorstep.

Installation is simple and thanks to some high tech vinyls from 3M, bubbles under the vinyl are a thing of the past. The backing of the vinyl features very clever air channels that push even the smallest pockets of air out with no fuss. They will last a lifetime with no wear of fade and can even be removed leaving no sticky residue if required, and the latest tech they have in now allows you to specify gel filled vinyls if you want a more tactile feel. For only $17 we cannot think of a better way to customise your guitars.

If you get one we would love to see what you have made so send in your pictures, if they are good we will even offer up a 15% discount for you to use on anything else we sell from our repair parts section.

Taylor Swift in Band Hero game – behind the scenes

GuitarHeroRepair — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:44:24 +0000

Yep, Taylor Swift has hit the big time now she's involved with Band Hero! Actually, she wasn't doing too bad before but this can only help boost her popularity. In the following video there is a look at how the game makers track her body movements to capture the artist pretty well on screen.

If you're after a sneak preview of game footage then take a look at this:

For the full band hero setlist look no further:

Set List for Band Hero console:

-- 3 Doors Down - "When I'm Gone"
-- The Airborne Toxic Event - "Gasoline"
-- The All American Rejects - "Dirty Little Secret"
-- Alphabeat - "Fascination"
-- Aly and AJ - "Like Whoa"
-- Angels & Airwaves - "The Adventure"
-- Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - "Steal My Kisses"
-- Big Country - "In a Big Country"
-- The Bravery - "Believe"
-- Carl Douglas - "Kung Fu Fighting"
-- Cheap Trick - "I Want You To Want Me (live)"
-- Cold War Kids - "Hang Me Up To Dry"
-- Corinne Bailey Rae - "Put Your Records On"
-- Counting Crows - "Angels of the Silences"
-- Culture Club - "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me"
-- Dashboard Confessional - "Hands Down"
-- David Bowie - "Let's Dance"
-- Devo - "Whip It"
-- Don McLean - "American Pie"
-- Duffy - "Warwick Avenue"
-- Duran Duran - "Rio"
-- Evanescence - "Bring Me To Life"
-- Everclear - "Santa Monica (Watch The World Die)"
-- Fall Out Boy - "Sugar, We're Goin' Down"
-- Filter - "Take A Picture"
-- Finger Eleven - "Paralyzer"
-- The Go-Go's - "Our Lips Are Sealed"
-- Hilary Duff - "So Yesterday"
-- Hinder - "Lips Of An Angel"
-- Jackson 5 - "ABC"
-- Janet Jackson - "Black Cat"
-- Jesse McCartney - "Beautiful Soul"
-- Joan Jett - "Bad Reputation"
-- Joss Stone - "You Had Me"
-- Katrina and The Waves - "Walking On Sunshine"
-- The Kooks - "Naive"
-- KT Tunstall - "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree"
-- The Last Goodnight - "Pictures Of You"
-- Lily Allen - "Take What You Take"
-- Maroon 5 - "She Will Be Loved"
-- Marvin Gaye - "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
-- Mighty Mighty Bosstones - "The Impression That I Get"
-- Nelly Furtado - "Turn Off The Light"
-- N.E.R.D. - "Rockstar"
-- No Doubt - "Just A Girl"
-- No Doubt - "Don't Speak"
-- OK Go - "A Million Ways"
-- Papa Roach - "Lifeline"
-- Parachute - "Back Again"
-- Pat Benatar - "Love Is A Battlefield"
-- Poison - "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"
-- Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue - "Kids"
-- The Rolling Stones - "Honky Tonk Women"
-- Roy Orbison - "Oh Pretty Woman"
-- Santigold - "L.E.S. Artistes"
-- Snow Patrol - "Take Back the City"
-- Spice Girls - "Wannabe"
-- Styx - "Mr. Roboto"
-- Taylor Swift - "Love Story"
-- Taylor Swift - "Picture To Burn"
-- Taylor Swift - "You Belong With Me"
-- Tonic - "If You Could Only See"
-- The Turtles - "Happy Together"
-- Village People - "YMCA"
-- Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue"

Band Hero for Nintendo DS Lite, will contain the following:

Set list for Band Hero for Nintendo DS Lite:
-- The All-American Rejects - "Believe"
-- Avril Lavigne - "Girlfriend"
-- Black Eyed Peas - "Let's Get It Started"
-- Blink-182 - "First Date"
-- Boys Like Girls - "The Great Escape"
-- Duran Duran - "Hungry Like The Wolf"
-- Eagles of Death Metal - "Wannabe In L.A."
-- Evanescence - "Call Me When You're Sober"
-- Fall Out Boy - "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs"
-- Foo Fighters - "Monkey Wrench"
-- Kaiser Chiefs - "I Predict A Riot"
-- The Killers - "Spaceman"
-- Kings of Leon - "Manhattan"
-- KT Tunstall - "Suddenly I See"
-- Lacuna Coil - "Our Truth"
-- No Doubt - "Excuse Me Mr."
-- Pink - "So What"
-- The Presidents of the United States of America - "Lump"
-- The Pretenders - "Boots of Chinese Plastic"
-- Queen - "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
-- Queens of the Stone Age - "No One Knows"
-- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus - "You Better Pray"
-- The Rolling Stones - "Under My Thumb (live)"
-- Spin Doctors - "Two Princes"
-- Sublime - "All You Need"
-- Sum 41 - "In Too Deep"
-- Ugly Kid Joe - "Everything About You"
-- Vampire Weekend - "A-Punk"
-- The Vines - "Get Free"
-- Weezer - "Troublemaker"

Some pretty good stuff in there which seems cleverly chosen. We'll report on how it plays soon.

Official setlist courtesy of Activision, makers of Band Hero

DJ Hero is as addictive as Guitar Hero!

Steve — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:09:17 +0000

Well it came as a shock to us to, we are all of the metal persuasion when it comes to music, but DJ Hero may well be good enough to convert rockers to ravers!

The new game has been out for a few days now and having battled the shopping masses to get the game on release day, we have had some time to sit down and really get into the game. coming from the same makers as the Guitar Hero series you would be correct in assuming it shares a lot of the same features (renamed but still there, thinly disguised!) and some of those skills your fingers developed in GH will certainly come in handy while mixing.

The game operates as if you were a DJ playing 2 records at the same time, mixing and scratching between them and adding your samples over the top, this is easily represented in the game by the green and blue glowing lines as your two records, which can be scratched and played independently of each other or at the same time by use of the crossfader. You also have the samples which are represented by the red line, this allows you to play in the samples the song requires but also gives you the ability to throw in some of your own when you get the chance - not exactly contributing to the song very well but more making your friends laugh at all the air horns you are putting over an otherwise great track.

The mixes and DJ's represent a real variety of DJ based music from hip hop, old school, funk, r n b, dance, electronica and scratching genres and even through you may not think you'd like the music, when it feels like you have some control over it you really do feel involved.

The DJ controller is small but perfectly formed, it feels good, works well (so far!), and is not too big to have lying around with all your other plastic toys. We have done a complete stripdown of the controller and are in the process of getting the article ready at the moment, as soon as it is done we can show you the inner workings so all you modders can start thinking of how to pimp it up a little!

The longevity of the game will depend on DLC (and how deep your pockets are) and how much you love the music but with the difficulty akin to maybe GHWT, most people should be able to 4/5 star things on easy after a bit of practise but hard and then expert will take some work, this should last a good while.

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Xbox 360 Dj Hero Renegade Edition Turntable Bundle Kit
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Dj Hero With Turn Table
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