Intonation setting (and tuner)
Hey,
I bought a Korg Pitchblack tuner today - pretty nice a tuner indeed, especially for the price. Very cool a gadget.
Anyhow, that got me to checking the intonation on my axes and prompted me to put forth a question, how do you guys set your intonation?
Is it open/12th fret/12th harmonic comparison?
Do you use a tuner or tuner/ear or just ear?
The way I do it is I first get it close enough both visually - I use the same set of 9 to 52 (custom, 9, 11, 17, 32, 40, 52) on all my axes...I always end up getting the bridge like this:
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i.e. there are always two separate almost straight lines for low and high strings - which makes sense there being a huge difference between my G and D....and with the 12th fret method...
THEN what I do is I play the top 3 strings open and in open D and make sure both are in tune exactly. Then I play a straight A and make sure those notes and the open strings are all in tune.
And lastly I check the G chord is pretty much exactly in tune.
By this way it still gets to be very well intonated at open/12th but I get the basic rock chords and such to ring with really pleasant harmonies too.
Does any of you have any preferences to setting the intonation using chords as well or something?
Dee
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