r/yousician

Growing up my dad loved singing karaoke every night as his way to unwind from work. I realized last night as I playing along to the bouncy ball and singing to Chris Stapleton’s Millionaire that I’m doing the same thing my dad used to do but with a guitar instead of a microphone. I’m not saying I cried after the song was over, just sweat from belting out those lyrics.

I’ve moved to a new laptop and can’t get any input from audio cable, any suggestions?

The cable works fine in windows recorder and in Rocksmith. From yousician, it detects the cable but no input from it. So far I’ve tried the following:
- different usb ports
- checked windows privacy to ensure yousician is allowed access to mic
- updated all drivers
- confirmed the mic frequency is on 48,000htz

I’ve often thought, and seen other posts, about Yousician not recognizing chords well. For open chord fast strumming songs, try a floppy pick. I’m working on the ‘go for gold’ stuff cleaning up a bunch of level 4 songs. There are a lot of fast open chord strumming songs i could never perfect. Like for a year or more. Today I switched from my do-all/go to .6mm dunlop pick to a vey bendy .38mm dunlop. I’m nailing them much more easily. I don’t know if I’m playing better, of the app just hears me better. Whatever the reason, it helps a lot.
I think maybe the stiff pick misses some strings in a chord occasionally, and the bendy pick gets them.