How to tune your guitar

[Crash ©]

12th fret is half the distance between the nut and the center of the bridge.

The first fret is 1/18th the full scale length from the nut. The second fret is 1/18 of the distance of the length from the first fret to the center of the bridge. The third fret is 1/18 of the distance of the second fret to the center of the bridge. The rest of them follow the same 1/18th of the distance pattern...

If you screw up the distance just a touch, it'll screw the intonation up on the rest of the fretboard.. But not all is lost.. You just raise the action way up and tell everyone you were making a blues slide guitar..

Rob

 

[mshilarious]

I disagree with the premise of retrained your ears to accept equal temperament. Equal temperament is evil One of these days, man, I'm gonna build a 16-fret/octave instrument (based on a 19-tone scale, minus three less useful notes).

In the meantime, I like 1-3 slightly flat, but not flat enough to make the thirds correct, just tolerable, while the octaves are tolerable too.

 

[cello_pudding]

man...i clicked that link.

too much reading. why do you need to read a novel just to say tune by octaves.

and for those that tune with a pedal...its not in tune. i tune pianos, and every tunist knows that tuners only work with a certain range. it flattens as you go down, and sharpens as you go up the piano. you have to tune most of the piano by octaves/ears. to be in tune, you have to be out of tune with a pedal