Guitar Tuner project/DIY?

[CJ]

I remember reading a Greatful Dead article. They had been together about twenty years. Mr. Garcia said that after all that time, they were still learning how to tune up. Which they always did onstage. Tuners will get you close, and they give you that warm fuzzy feeling when your ears are cooked, and your playing live, but every instrument tunes up a little different, and sound waves get bent onstage. Hard to know what the audience is hearing as opposed to what you are hearing. Depends on the instruments in the band also. A keyboard will throw a monkey wrench into a guitar based band.
Mix in some horns and you might have to go out and get a new guitar to match up.

 

[Gus]

There is alot of good stuff done with 3 barrel telecaster bridges. Most people tune by ear after they tune on a tuner. The wound or unwound G string (I can see the jokes now) seems to be the one that needs the touch up.

PRS address this back arond 1980 in a patent on the nut design using Lute and not guitar in the title.

FWIW My PRS is about 1/16" closer to the first fret E from the nut and 1/32" at the higher E than the math would give you.

Some of the new tuners can store the offsets so one can retune more easy on stage instead of remembering the sharp or flat settings. The new peterson stuff looks very cool.

 

[Guest]

[quote author="stefan"]Have You ever tried to use a tuningfork or such on stage while the other musicians in the band were playing? if You did I can assure You that You would at least look like a "dumb" animal... [/quote]
no.. but I have used a pitchpipe to get bottom E - tune by ear to get the rest
and I have played the "grimest of grim" bikers parties...
perhaps if I used dobly?

 

[compactaudio]

I'll use my ears for tuning and a tuner for reference (if I can hear whats going on)

 

[Smoke]

i have problems tuning my E (bass) on stage, i can tune everything in my bedroom and even without an amp, but when it comes to tuning that low E on stage im totally hopeless. too much bottom end and its just noise. maybe bad amp settings if i cut out the bottom end and leave trebles im a bit better at it

 

[BYacey]

Because of the low frequencies involved, a few cents difference doesn't translate to much of a frequency change. It's harder to hear the difference frequency for these lower notes when beating two tones against each other. A better method is to tune using the third harmonic - this frequency the ear can more easily distinguish small variances in pitch.

 

[EZ81]

This looks interesting: http://www.strobotron.com
Maybe a EL panel (actually two out of phase) integrated into the pickguard would be nice...

 

[BR]

Hey smoke,
I also think it is not worth while trying this project.. there are some companies that make excellent tuners at a not so horrible price. Check these guys out.
http://www.petersontuners.com/products/modelvs2/index.cfm
http://www.petersontuners.com/products/strobostomp/index.cfm

I've used the table top version, and I think it costs something like $200, and it is one of the best tuners out there. the accuracy is rediculously high.
peace
Gil

 

[nrgrecording]

Uncle B. just did it again... much more than hundred new things...

and a 19" rack tuner for 80€ :wink:

 

[kruz]

oh my...
well.. just checked some new products.. have you noticed the "aleady seen" look of their new stomp boxes??
like this one:
http://www.behringer.com/UD100/index.cfm?lang=ENG
the ULTRA distorsion!!! :green:
they stinks! :roll:

 

[nrgrecording]

oh my...
well.. just checked some new products.. have you noticed the "aleady seen" look of their new stomp boxes??
like this one:
http://www.behringer.com/UD100/index.cfm?lang=ENG
the ULTRA distorsion!!!
they stinks!

Yeah. :green:

Ultradistortion... the well known sound of the mx8000 series now in one small box... for only 22€ :green: :green:

Maybe i'll buy some of them... the case looks nice for diy stuff :green:

 

[Nasse]

http://www.strobotron.com/

Don´t mean to behringer that, but since I was kid I always wanted to know how stuff works