Here's a little nugget I found for everyone here.
If you've never used a stroboscope to tune your guitar you're missing out. It's the most accurate way of tuning. Most tuners will be off by at least a cent or five.
Doesn't sound like much, but it is.
I was talking to a music store guy about intoning guitars, and properly setting them up. I was curious and asked him what kind of equipment he used.
He looked at me with a blank, and said he used a $20.00 Korg tuner. I asked him why not a scope, and his reply was that he could intonate a guitar just as good with a Korg tuner as
a strobe. They charged 450.00 for complete setup at this store......... For WHAT?
That's where the conversation ended....
I learned to setup guitars before I ever learned (or even wanted) to play.
Mostly setting up action for picky customers, intonating, adjusting pickups, wiring, and even filing fret ends for people that like to stretch without choking off the note.
We used a digital strobe made by peterson that probably cost someones first born.
I found this on the web, and have used it for years now. Works JUST as good for standard tuning once you adjust the noise gate for whatever you're doing. If you are plugging in
you can put it down to almost zero, but .005 usually works just fine.
For acoustic you'll probably want it somewhere around .020 if you're using a computer microphone.
Only works on Windows which sucks as I use Mac mostly, but I keep the Netbook nearby when jamming, and have a 1/4" to 1/8" wire to plug my guitar into the computer through the microphone jack.
Works TITS. You'll be surprised how different your rig will sound. Tune your guitar as meticulously as you can with your regular tuner, and then check it with this and you'll
see how far off it is.
I think it's great because it makes my shitty guitar playing sound a bit less shitty, lol.
It will make a cheaper guitar sound better too with the right strings.
If it moves to the right, you're sharp.
If is moves to the left, you're flat.
(one or the other, can't remember off hand)
Get that note to stick dead center on every string and anything you play will sound heavenly.
You'll also know your strings need replacing when the note either wobbles side to side, or you can't get a clear picture.
Depending on where you play you can tune from the 12 fret just pitching the harmonic, or just open string.
If your guitar is setup good the 12 harmonic will be better.
Anyways, it's called LStune
Here's a link.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lstune/
Peace.
Tav
I've tried EZdrummer before in Ableton environment but I'm wondering if there's something simpler still available?
