As you all know I love the Xbox360 especially the party games such as Halo3 and Guitar Hero 3. So naturally when I walked by the Gamestop in my local mall I noticed this large black box with big bold lettering "RockBand" and wow I was interested. I inquired within(Gamestop). Found a setup that matched my console(Xbox360) and inquired about the cost. $180 seemed quite steep but it came with the drums and microphone. What really sold it for me was how excited my wife was to play it.
So I brought it home. 
Unboxed the components and sure enough there was all the greatness that I paid for sitting inside. I hurried and setup the drums and pulled out the guitar as well as my Guitar hero guitar(because it works with this also *Bonus*) Turned on the Game and all the components lit up on the green circle of xbox360 love except the microphone.
After close examination I was very concerned it was yet another Logitech device. Grrr! So I looked within the box maybe I missed some documentation on setting up the microphone cause it was still dysfunctional. I did come across the pink paper entitled: "Stop Please don’t return any Rock Band Hardware...."
I went to the support page: http://support.ea.com/rockband . No answers there either. I contacted the support number on the web site and waited 2 hours to talk to someone that had to explain that I needed a xbox360 controller turned on with the microphone to make it work.
So the whole reason for this was to let all those who are frustrated with the microphone like me. Calm down, relax. You now know how to work the blessed microphone with the Xbox360. EA needs better than no instructions on how to make the microphone work.
Rock ON!
