Well, here's my first playthrough scores, stem confirmations and impressions of this week's Alice in Chains pack:
"Man in the Box" - Alice in Chains - [Guitar: Tier 2| Bass: Tier 1| Drums: Tier 1| Vocals: Tier 0]
Expert Guitar: 164,951 | 100% Notes Hit (632/632) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 140,352 | 100% Notes Hit (715/715) Full Combo | Gold Stars
”Down in a Hole" - Alice in Chains - [Guitar: Tier 2| Bass: Tier 2| Drums: Tier 2| Vocals: Tier 4]
Expert Guitar: 181,713 | 100% Notes Hit (737/737) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 184,675 | 100% Notes Hit (908/908) Full Combo | Gold Stars
”Them Bones" - Alice in Chains - [Guitar: Tier 4| Bass: Tier 3| Drums: Tier 3| Vocals: Tier 3]
Expert Guitar: 144,064 | 100% Notes Hit (477/477) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Expert Bass: 145,543 | 100% Notes Hit (717/717) Full Combo | Gold Stars
Stem Confirmations: "Man in the Box" is a clear cut yes on the master tracks and stems front, due to it being an RB2 export originally, no tracks muffling or any hint of track degradation when missing notes at all. "Down in the Hole" is 100% legit as well. "Them Bones" makes it a triple whammy this week so that's all three tracks this week properly mastered. Stem enthusiasts can make a safe purchase!
DLC Impressions: "Them Bones" is a GH classic and a staple of music games so I'm glad we've finally got it! Guitar chart is pretty fun with the bulk of the song consisting of constant chord changes and three note chord sustains followed by a rad ass solo with a crazy fast hammer-on snake that travels back and forth between green, red and yellow. Bass is pretty good too, consisting of constant steady single note strumming up and down the fretboard that mimics the pacing and tempo of the guitar chart pretty closely. "Down in a Hole" has a really fun guitar chart for a much slower paced song. Lots of nice relaxing single note strumming back and forth across the fretboard with some pretty interesting chord sustains in between. There's this rad as fuck 2 minutes or so guitar solo at the end that starts off fairly simple but adds 3 note hammer-on strings towards the end to spice things up nicely. Bass is pretty simple, but engaging enough with a lot of steady movement up and down with some hammer-on flourishes and 3 note gallops every now and then to break things up. "Man in the Box" is an RB2 classic and a great track although the guitar is fairly mundane for the most part with brief single note and 3 note chord strums and some hammer-on strings in between that move at a fairly pedestrian pace. The solo is pretty cool though, but probably the most difficult of the three with some crazy fast trills (made way, waaaay easier by an RB4 patch that added trill lanes) and some sweeping hammer-on movement that swoops all over the place! The bass is pretty run of the mill with slow lane changes back and forth and it never really spices things up until apart from some steady strumming between each verse. Overall, good balanced pack and if you haven't got the RB2 export for "Man in the Box" then I culd easily recommend the entire pack!