Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] in tune - stupid thread [WAS: Tuning Program or wav files?]
From: Russell Hanaghan (hanaghan_AT_starband.net)
Date: Sun Dec 19 2004 - 18:55:49 EET
MarC wrote:
> En/na LinuxMedia ha escrit:
>
>> My guitar is in perfect tune now. I never knew how good an accoustic
>> guitar can sound when it's in such perfect tune.
>
>
> :) that was funny! I'm just trying to imagine how it could sound when
> it wasn't in tune...
>
> But be careful about "machine-tuning" !
> I believe in perfect tuning as a personal trade-off between all the
> imperfections. Being out of tune you can make your guitar sound personal!
> So before your guitar maybe had a great personality (XD)and now is a
> plain guitar... ooh what have you done!!! acoustics and imperfection
> rulez!
> don't let a hacker tune your guitar! that could be a disaster!! XD
>
Lets see if we can start another semi useless string of which guitarists
the world over can nit pick! :)
Fact is, it is impossible to tune an acoustic guitar
"perfectly"...Invariably, when you have it tuned so an open G chord
sounds spot on, an open A or even C will be a tad off. And the same
applies to the inverse of course. This all due to a general lack of
adjustment for intonation on acoustic axes. But to the untuned ear
(which I agree in sort...should be the final judge of how your axe is
"tuned" ) this is not really noticeble.
"don't let a hacker tune your guitar!" Now that's a great line! :)
Although I'm not quite of the same ilk on this point (ergo...B52's Rock
lobster 4 string special) and an untuned instrument of ~any~ sort will
usually cause demons to appear in my personality and require excorcism
if not remedied, if it is the missing "glue" to your music..... ~enjoy~
R~
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