Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] guitar tuner ?
From: Jörn Nettingsmeier (nettings_AT_folkwang-hochschule.de)
Date: Mon Oct 22 2001 - 08:05:33 EEST
[off-topic]
Krzys Majewski wrote:
>
> Anyone got a guitar tuner that works? I'm actually going to use it for
> an electric bass.
yeah, i got a good one. dead cheap, needs no batteries and very
precise. it's called Ears(tm).
seriously, unless you need one to tune on a noisy stage, you're much
better off with your ears and a pitchfork.
strike the fork and hold it over the pickup, it will give you a nice
loud a', which you can compare to the overtone in the 12th fret of
the a string. listen for beats and turn until they disappear. for
the other strings, compare 5th fret overtone on lower string with
7th fret overtone on upper string. the notes will sustain when you
take your fingers off the fretboard, and you can again tune until
the beats disappear.
as to precision: when tuning with beats, you can get results as
precise as the beat frequency in hertz.
regards,
jörn
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