Behringer Guitar 2 USB - Noise issues

[bercius]

I installed the RS ASIO files, and the guitar works, but the sound quality is poor. When I play the low E string, I hear crackling and whistling noises, especially towards the end. When I switch to the higher strings, the sound cuts off halfway. Even during the game’s startup screen, there is crackling noise.

I’ve tried adjusting the buffer size settings, but most of the time it got worse. I also tested with exclusive mode on and off. I changed SoftwareMasterVolumePercent to 60 and experimented with different values. I installed and tested ASIO4ALL versions 2.14, 2.15, 2.15 (beta3), and 2.16. I also went through the in-game calibration process.

Still, the sound is not satisfying, and the same whistling and cut-off issues remain. Is there a solution I might have missed? Or is it simply because the cable is low quality? Currently, I can’t find any stores selling the Real Tone cable in my country. Would getting an M-Audio M-Track Solo audio interface allow me to achieve satisfying sound quality and solve this problem?

rocksmith.ini:
[Audio]
EnableMicrophone=1
ExclusiveMode=0
LatencyBuffer=4
ForceDefaultPlaybackDevice=
ForceWDM=0
ForceDirectXSink=0
DumpAudioLog=0
MaxOutputBufferSize=0
RealToneCableOnly=0
MonoToStereoChannel=0
Win32UltraLowLatencyMode=1
[Renderer.Win32]
ShowGamepadUI=0
ScreenWidth=0
ScreenHeight=0
Fullscreen=1
VisualQuality=2
RenderingWidth=0
RenderingHeight=0
EnablePostEffects=1
EnableShadows=1
EnableHighResScope=1
EnableDepthOfField=1
EnablePerPixelLighting=1
MsaaSamples=4
DisableBrowser=0
[Net]
UseProxy=1
[Global]
Version=1

Rs asio:
[Config]
EnableWasapiOutputs=1
EnableWasapiInputs=0
EnableAsio=1

[Asio]
; available buffer size modes:
; driver - respect buffer size setting set in the driver
; host - use a buffer size as close as possible as that requested by the host application
; custom - use the buffer size specified in CustomBufferSize field
BufferSizeMode=driver
CustomBufferSize=

[Asio.Output]
Driver=
BaseChannel=0
AltBaseChannel=
EnableSoftwareEndpointVolumeControl=1
EnableSoftwareMasterVolumeControl=1
SoftwareMasterVolumePercent=100
EnableRefCountHack=

[Asio.Input.0]
Driver=ASIO4ALL v2
Channel=0
EnableSoftwareEndpointVolumeControl=1
EnableSoftwareMasterVolumeControl=1
SoftwareMasterVolumePercent=100
EnableRefCountHack=

[Asio.Input.1]
Driver=
Channel=1
EnableSoftwareEndpointVolumeControl=1
EnableSoftwareMasterVolumeControl=1
SoftwareMasterVolumePercent=100
EnableRefCountHack=

[Asio.Input.Mic]
Driver=
Channel=1
EnableSoftwareEndpointVolumeControl=1
EnableSoftwareMasterVolumeControl=1
SoftwareMasterVolumePercent=100
EnableRefCountHack=

[mdias]

You are not using ASIO for the output.
Since you're already hearing crackling in the game startup screen, this means all of your output (coming from the guitar or not) will have crackling.

You can try using ASIO4ALL for the output too, but it may or may not work well since ASIO4ALL is not really a true ASIO driver.

Regarding the M-Audio interface, as long you have good 32-bit ASIO drivers it should work.

Alternatively to all of this, you could try to use Voicemeeter as a middle-man driver, but this is non trivial setup and it won't help with not having true ASIO drivers anyway. It would help with interfaces missing 32-bit drivers though, since it can use the 64-bit ones while allowing RS ASIO to use the 32-bit Voicemeeter ASIO drivers.

[bercius]

You are not using ASIO for the output. Since you're already hearing crackling in the game startup screen, this means all of your output (coming from the guitar or not) will have crackling.

You can try using ASIO4ALL for the output too, but it may or may not work well since ASIO4ALL is not really a true ASIO driver.

Regarding the M-Audio interface, as long you have good 32-bit ASIO drivers it should work.

Alternatively to all of this, you could try to use Voicemeeter as a middle-man driver, but this is non trivial setup and it won't help with not having true ASIO drivers anyway. It would help with interfaces missing 32-bit drivers though, since it can use the 64-bit ones while allowing RS ASIO to use the 32-bit Voicemeeter ASIO drivers.

I set up my M-Audio M-Track Solo device (the 1.0.4 driver didn’t work – 1.0.3 worked successfully), but on the thinnest string there’s almost no sustain. The sound doesn’t fade out naturally like it does on an amp, instead it cuts off midway. How can I fix this? I’ve tried calibrating in many different ways inside the game, adjusting my guitar’s tone and volume, and tweaking the input settings on my audio interface, but nothing solved the issue. If I increase the sustain a little, then the notes start crackling. The sound never decays naturally. Also, my guitar’s tone doesn’t sound very good in the game compared to how it sounds through an amp. Is this just me being too much of a perfectionist and it’s normal, or is there actually a problem? Please let me know, I’ve been struggling with this for 4 days.

[mdias]

@bercius the quality of the tone depends on the guitar tone you are playing ingame, and also the quality of the game's simulated amps.

As for the sustain, it also depends on the amp simulation quality but very importantly it also depends on the noise calibration of the game which you can re-calibrate. When it asks you to mute the strings, make sure they are absolutely muted before you proceed as this sets the noise gate level of the game.

You should also check to ensure your guitar signal is loud enough (but not too loud, you don't want it to clip) that your faint guitar notes don't end up below the noise floor (and therefore below the noise gate).

You may also want to try recording your raw guitar sound in some audio software like Audacity to check if volume level is good and that faint notes are not too low compared to noise floor etc.