Level Up Your Play: The Ultimate Guide to Rocksmith Custom Songs (CDLC)

If you have spent any time practicing guitar or bass with Rocksmith 2014 Edition – Remastered, you likely hit a wall where you wished your absolute favorite band or underground track was part of the official library. Official song packs are great, but licensing constraints mean many legendary tracks, indie gems, and niche genres never make the official cut.

Enter CDLC (Custom Downloadable Content). Thanks to a fiercely dedicated community, custom songs have breathed infinite life into Rocksmith, turning it into arguably the most powerful song-learning sandbox on the planet.

What Exactly Are Rocksmith Custom Songs?

Custom songs are fan-made, community-charted tracks that look, act, and play just like official DLC. Talented musicians and “charters” take audio tracks, map out the guitar and bass notes using specialized charting software (like EOF—Editor on Fire), and package them into .psarc files.