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I read an interesting interview with a guitarist recently (from a Nu-metal band, the name of which escapes me) and when asked how the recording of his new album was going, he said that it was pretty arduous as the producer was insisting that he retuned his guitar every time he changed to a different chord, now even though I already knew that it was physically impossible to tune a guitar correctly all the way up the fretboard, at the time I read this I thought this sounded like a pointlesss waste of time, but having got into home recording on my PC recently, you do become aware of how little variations in tuning and intonation can make quite a big difference to a recording. I go for quite a jangly, REMish guitar sound as well, and I'm wondering if doing something like this might help the chords ring out brighter/resonate better, etc.
Anyway, have any of you heard of this being done? (the retuning business) is it a common practice? and what are you tuning the guitar to? - a digital tuner? the bass part? (in fact do you have to retune the bass as well, or do you just assume it's OK?) and what about tuning unusual chords?
Anyway, have any of you heard of this being done? (the retuning business) is it a common practice? and what are you tuning the guitar to? - a digital tuner? the bass part? (in fact do you have to retune the bass as well, or do you just assume it's OK?) and what about tuning unusual chords?