PlayStation 3 Frontman Wireless Guitar Black
PlayStation 3 Frontman Wireless Guitar Black
Feel like you’re in real band with this Nyko 83057 Frontman Black Wireless Guitar Controller for Playstation 3. The FrontMan has a unique hard rock styling with a custom body shape, customizable color scheme with interchangeable pick guards and durable design. Featuring wireless technology for cordless play, the FrontMan provides 25 feet of freedom while rocking out to your favorites. It also has a high quality, precision built bi-directional strum bar, fret buttons, whammy bar and effects switch for Rock Band play.
Responsive and durable fret buttons 3 interchangeable pick guards in designer colors Unique directional pad design for convenient menu navigation Effects switch for Rock Band play
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Excellent Guitar
I bought two of these on Black Friday weekend for a ridiculously low price and they are great. Action and response is equal to that of the LesPaul from GH3 on PS3(haven’t played/used on Rock Band). The Fret Buttons are 1-2mm narrower than the original if you’re holding the guitar vertical and are centered in the middle of the neck. I haven’t noticed any problems with pressing the buttons down at all, but I’ve never had a problem sliding off or hitting the button partially to begin with. The strum bar clicks nicely and the response is great. The whammy bar works great too and isn’t weak at all and stays put nicely.
The PS3 Button looks cool and lights up different colors to let you know which controller port you are connected. No problems with this button or the star/select buttons at all either.
My only gripes about the unit are:
The Receiver: looks cool, just like an effects pedal but why is it so freaking huge?(actual effects pedal size almost) And there is a little nob you need to use to switch back and forth between rock band and guitar hero. I’ve only used these units with Guitar Hero 3 on PS3.
The Strumbar: the tolerances aren’t perfect so after clicking it’s return to the “zero” or “center” position isn’t perfect….nit picking i know…but from a fit and finish standpoint…it could be better. Never affected the performance of my playing though.
Last but not least, the size of the NECK: The neck on this guitar is larger than the standard Les Paul. I honestly didn’t notice until after a couple hours of playing and switching back to the original LesPaul. By no means, did it affect my ability to play, but I have Large Hands (I’m 6′4″ so you do the math) I also play regular guitar and the neck is still smaller than my real guitars. Side by side with the Les Paul it looks to be about 1/2cm wider across the fretboard but identical in depth. So it’s not a big deal, but if kids are involved it could be a deal breaker…but for any normal adult I don’t think it would be a problem.
That’s pretty much it. Mostly little tiny things that could be improved and nothing that is a deal breaker unless you have really small hands.
Some people have commented on weight forward feeling or neck heavy feeling of this guitar and I don’t really notice it to be honest. They might be too used to the Les Paul style where the weight is all in the body. The Explorer body is naturally more weight forward due to the body design…however the kramer style headstock could be weighted but I don’t really notice and quite frankly, I could care less for the price I got these babies for. Hope this helps you buyers on the fence because half of the reviews on here are from idiots.
3 Stars Agree that it’s not best for small hands
I paid $7 for this, and as my first guitar, it was worth the $7 for me to cheaply try Rock Band and find out whether I liked it or not (I do!).
But I agree with the other reviewers regarding weaknesses of this model:
* Thick neck not good for small hands
* Buttons don’t register as well as they could with non-direct presses
I also think the frets are spaced a little too far apart. I’d like to comfortably be able to place my 4 fingers on the 1st four buttons and stretch to reach the 5th, but my 4 fingers were too widely spaced to make this comfortable. This, with the thick neck, makes the guitar uncomfortable to use.
The sync as described in the directions isn’t write, as written previously. You need to click the NYKO button on guitar 3x in a row quickly to get it to sync to red “dongle”
I could live with the non-direct presses issue (at least for now, with my newbie status), but the fret spacing and thick neck are issues for me even now.
4 Stars Good 2nd/backup guitar
I puchased this guitar because I didn’t want to spend too much to get a 2nd guitar for Rock Band. When I first used it with Rock Band 2 on Rock Band mode, it wouldn’t work correctly. Once I switched it to Guitar Hero mode, it worked great, even the star power tilt worked while in this mode.
The guitar itself is a bit thicker than the Rock Band guitar but that was something I got used to. Also the neck is shorter on this Nyko guitar as opposed to the Rock Band guitar. Once I got used to both of those differences, this guitar worked out well.
I would recommend this guitar looking for a good guitar that can work for both Rock Band and Guitar Hero while trying to spend a less.
3 Stars Question: I take it that it’s NOT compatible with GH “world-tour”??
I just purchased GH World-Tour”, and as I read these posts on this product, I notice that only “GH-3″ is mentioned….. That is the only GH it works with? Thanks for any help !
5 Stars Extra instructions
For $6 this was an awesome deal. We were able to get two guitars and guitar hero 3 for $35 total after I upgraded from a ps2 to a ps3.
For all of our purposes the guitar was just as nice as the standard one that came with the ps2. (I feel the need to admit that we are not EXPERT players. o.o )
A word of advice though, a previous poster nailed it on the head. The instructions aren’t very good. It was very easy for us to link up the guitars by:
1. turn off ps3
2. connect pedal
3. turn on ps3
4. press Nyko button on guitar (goes into slow blinking mode)
5. press pedal button (pedal goes into fast blinking mode)
6. press Nyko button on guitar (goes into fast blinking mode)
7. make sure both are blinking fast, then press Nyko button one last time
So try that if you are having trouble. Our guitars were linked up in no time.
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