Konami Official Guitar Controller

[oushi]

Hi. I recently bought a Konami guitar controller (non-ASC). The strum bar works, but it has a really stiff down pick and hardly moves, while the up pick has a lot more give. I've read around the forums that the strum bar is supposed to loosen up when it's been broken in... but it's really hard to down pick when the strum bar almost doesn't move at all, so I was wondering if my guitar is defective and if I should have it exchanged. I imagine that even if it is usually stiff to begin with, the bar should move equally in both directions...

[[x]Pepe[x]]

Well, if it's easy for you to exchange it (You bought in near you), I suggest you do. But if you bought it, say, online, where it takes a reaaaally long time for these things, I suggest stick with what you have... :P