lpdeluxe said:Unwound Gs slip. Use a wound G. It won't slip. I haven't used unwound Gs for years...
dragonworks said:On my 1972 Gibson ES-335 there is not enough travel on the bridge saddles to set the intonation correctly. She just about makes it. Anyway, my buddie told me there is another bridge that has a little more travel that fits my baby. That and some good tuners are in order.
Light said:Unless you have a strobe tuner, you do not have the ability to do an acceptable job of intonation. This is just a simple fact, as there is no other form of tuner which is accurate enough for intonation work. I, of course, do my own intonation work, but that is what I do for a living, so I have the strobe available. Your typical digital tuner is accurate to within a few cents. A strobe is accurate to within a few hundredths of a cent. This is particularly important if you are recording.
Light
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acorec said:So, if you have perfect pitch, it is possible to do it.
Dani Pace said:...if you plug into a different amp there will be a slight variation in the tonal reproduction and this will sometimes be sufficient to make a guitar sound off, anyone else ever notice this or is it just me and the crappy amps I've played through over the years?
Yeah, man. I know what you're talking about. I also agree that exact tuning isn't neccessary nor very "live".Dani Pace said:I read somewhere that the average person can rarely distinguish less than a three cent variation in pitch, granted most musicians listen more clocely than the average person and can develope a "fine tuned ear," but most listeners are not as picky as we are. I guess what I'm getting at is, although precise intonation is great it is not always an absolute requirement. I do all of my own set up work, I've been doing it longer than a lot of techs have been alive so I've gotten pretty good at it from years of trial and error. I play mostly electric and one thing I've noticed that no one else has addressed is the fact that no matter how cloce the intonation is set on the guitar, if you plug into a different amp there will be a slight variation in the tonal reproduction and this will sometimes be sufficient to make a guitar sound off, anyone else ever notice this or is it just me and the crappy amps I've played through over the years?
DanielCer said:"You know that you screwed up your warrenty now that you messed with it right?"
DanielCer said:Same thing happened to me, I bought an Epi G400, my first guitar. I didn't know what intoation was until I googled "tuning problems". I read several very clear and detailed articles on intonation and other tuning issues and solutions. In a nutshell I damaged the retaining wire and had to take the thing to a shop. At the shop several people came around to see what was up as I explained some bullshit story that I hoped would make me look less of a fool. "How much did you pay for this axe?" "You know that you screwed up your warrenty now that you messed with it right?" Sly looks to one another that I couldn't decipher and an all around unconfortable situation. I found no holes to jump into.
I did learn a lot about tuning though and the care one should have with their instruments.
Dan