For those of you who have been following the development of Rock Band 2, you probably already know who Dan Teasdale (AKA hmxspraynwipe) is. For those of you who don’t he is the lead designer on Rock Band 2, and through his weekly blogs he releases new info on Rock Band 2 and answers some questions that the community has been asking (if you missed his past blog posts you should check them out: Q&A Responses, Part 1, Inside Rock Band 2 Quickplay, E3 Round-up, and Rock Band 2 Small Stuff) .

He has posted another Q&A blog that answers some more questions that the community has been wondering about, and you can check out the questions and his responses below:

• Q: “How does the autocalibrate work for surround sound systems? Or will it work by putting the
  guitar up to any one of the 6 speakers?”

  A: Ideally, you’d hold it up to one of the front speakers just to be safe, but yeah – just hold it up to the speaker and press the green fret, and you’re done!

• Q: “so you can play [automatically generated] Challenges, without having all the songs in the Challenge, ie The Who Challenge, without the entire pack (But why would you not have the entire pack?)”A: That’s right! There’s a bunch of reasons why you might not have all of the songs by an artist that have been released:
  * You might have bought them as singles instead of a big pack (for example, you buy 4 Who tracks instead of the 12-pack, then buy another track)
  * They might be mixed across multiple sources (for example, you could have a Rush Challenge with “Tom Sawyer” from RB1, “The Trees” from RB2, and “Working Man” as a DLC track)

  Basically, the setlist for the challenge will be automatically determined by the songs that you have on your console. You add more songs for that category, artist, or album, and they’ll be added to the challenge!

• Q: “Is there going to be a way to see who owns what songs on the song list in RB2? It’s a pain sometimes when you find out that you’ve bought a song, and one of your other/2/3 friend[s] doesn’t have this song. You don’t know who to yell at and force them to download songs outside of their genre and belittle them.”A: Yep! If you select the song in the song select list, you’ll be given a list of players that don’t have the song so you can guilt them into purchasing more songs.

• Q: “Another small question, but I won’t ask this one every time, but if and when you go over Battle of the Bands I just want to know if most if not all challenges you will be able to do by yourself. Like if you have a solo band, will you be able to take your solo singer and do challenges like Any Way You Sing It, and then go to your solo guitaristand do the Ace of Spades Streak Battle.”A: Yep – we’ll have battles geared all the way from full-band family friendly to single instrument hardcore rock-offs. On top of that, we have different metrics besides score that we can use to level the playing field regardless of skill level or number of players. Also, any character can play any instrument, so your solo singer can also be a solo guitarist just by changing your controller.

• Q: HMX does RB2 have a high score list for any given song. Local I mean; not like a leaderboard.A: It sure does! RB2 will record your scores both locally and online, with the added bonus that it will update your online scores with your offline local scores when you reconnect to Rock Central.

Also another Harmonix developer, Casey Malone has started an Harmonix Twitter feed. The feed, in his own words, will be ” UP TO THE MINUTE coverage of what I, and the rest of Harmonix, are doing on our computers instead of work”. Could be pretty interesting, you can check out the Twitter feed here.

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