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21 Aug 2009

How do you set your Tuning and Intonation?

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Posted By : DYEHOUSE | Comments : 30

I have my way of doing it what method do others on here use?

Whenever I have had work done on my axe's they have always come back unsatisfactorily set up?
The Tuning and intonation is set up by luthiers using the harmonics at the 12th fret?
This method isn't good enough for me as I find the upper tuning not correct?
When I do it myself I always depress the strings at the 12th fret onto the fret becauase when you play that high up you dont play just harmonics do you?
you play on the frets which stretches the string slightly so I find if it's been set up with harmonics the tuning is never quite perfect!
Anybody got any tricks of the trade?

Comments

# Posted by Scott - Metalleeka - 21/08/2009, 14:37 (GMT)

Tuning? Wossat? as Rob will testify lol
Saaaaad But Truuue lol

# Posted by ... - 21/08/2009, 14:45 (GMT)

.......... you bored Gordon ???

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 14:50 (GMT)

Bloody frustrated more like E!

# Posted by ... - 21/08/2009, 14:51 (GMT)

Well get one of yr mags out then ... ;-)

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 14:52 (GMT)

mags?
It's all DVD nowadays E!

# Posted by ... - 21/08/2009, 14:54 (GMT)

well you'll just have to keep the sound down then !!!!

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 14:56 (GMT)

Cant believe I only had one comment before I was blog jacked?
And that was'nt entirely serious, eh Scott!

# Posted by MOTHERS RUIN - 21/08/2009, 15:01 (GMT)

...basturd innit !!!.go on then ....
the higher up the neck you go the string gets shorter and then becomes more susceptible to even the tiniest amount of pressure will make it sound out as you don as much to make the next tone you want ..also the lighter the string the more trouble you will have ....personally i dont let it bother me too much ...damn i forgot to change my strings for tonites gig ......bugger i'll do it monday !!!

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 15:06 (GMT)

You haven't chaged yer strings this bloody year!
We were talking about guitar mags Were'nt we?
and not the other type Shell gets you cause yer to shy to ask?

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 15:08 (GMT)

Think your right about the thickness of yer strings?
Bassist dont have much trouble do they!
I'm not using bloody 11's though!

# Posted by ... - 21/08/2009, 15:21 (GMT)

Of course guitar mags ,they sometimes have technical stuff in dont they ????
Wot other types of mag btw i dont subscribe to any !!!
....you'll have to call down with yr PRS and i'll have a look ...also on sunite Stu(Hallowed) was using my Les Paul and Robdog my RG570 both with 11's and they didnt seem to notice ....anyroad we have talked on phone over that and many other wonderus things so i shall say no more !!!

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 15:27 (GMT)

Wonderous things?
I'm really looking for a way around having another refret on my main guitar[the one I use for giging] it's only been about 12 months since I last had it done and apart from the hassle and expence it comes back with the intonation not right and set for pitch even though I tell him I dont play in effin pitch he insists that's the way to do it?

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 15:31 (GMT)

Best behavour now E!
Great great uncle Charlie's on!

# Posted by MOTHERS RUIN - 21/08/2009, 15:35 (GMT)

12 months and you need another refret ..wot are the frets made out of ..Pie???
thats a fret every 2 weeks !!!
my Les Paul is 30 year old and stll doesnt need a refret ..my main RG is 19 year old and still doesnt need a refret ....mb yr just a heavy handed bugger G ... try titanium frets .........and no i dont know if they exist ...... gotta go now and put the kettle on and do the washing afore Shell gets home ... ;-)

Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 15:31 (GMT)
Best behavour now E!
Great great uncle Charlie's on!
................oooh he'll have you !!

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 15:39 (GMT)

I told ya I dig in didn't I!
Gas fitter's hand they call it!

# Posted by Charlie & Norma - 21/08/2009, 15:44 (GMT)

I told you to stop digging this morning you heavy handed sod. 12 months and you need another refret......take up the base!!!!

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 15:52 (GMT)

You cant do lead solo's on the Bass?
Anyway bassist are all to loud!
I dont want people saying I'm to loud?

# Posted by Big Drummer Boy - 21/08/2009, 15:52 (GMT)

I just hit them harder !!

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 15:59 (GMT)

Yeh but,err?
No strings attached?

# Posted by Charlie & Norma - 21/08/2009, 16:07 (GMT)

Gordon sent you a PM

# Posted by Mike Collinge - 21/08/2009, 16:55 (GMT)

G @ "You cant do lead solo's on the Bass? "

sez who? nobody told me that!!!
buggers!!!

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 16:56 (GMT)

Oh bugger!
I forgot about you Mike?
That comment was only intended for us mere mortals!

# Posted by Mike Collinge - 21/08/2009, 16:57 (GMT)

LOL hahaha!!

# Posted by DE MORTUIS - 21/08/2009, 17:10 (GMT)

the whole point of setting the intonation is that the string is bent when fretted, so fret it and use a tuner. check all the e's all over just to double check.

# Posted by Bad Horsie (Mick) - 21/08/2009, 18:29 (GMT)

12th fret harmonic is fine for me. I'm a really light player though.

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 21/08/2009, 18:40 (GMT)

I'm with De Mortiuis on that!
But why do the so called experts do it differant even when you ask them not to?

# Posted by The Imposters - 22/08/2009, 00:28 (GMT)

Can answer that Gordon ...... its because they dont listen to what we tell em when we hand it in for a set up !!!, thats why I started doing my own set ups nearly 30 years ago .... bloody hell, did I just say that ???, must be getting old !!!!, but seriously, whenever I do a set up for someone I always tell them if its not how they like it .. bring it back and it gets "tweaked" for free as part of the service ... maybe the "experts" should adopt this approach .....

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 22/08/2009, 10:51 (GMT)

They probably would if I took it back and insisted but it's the guitar I gig with so always in a hurry to get it back after a refret and reluctant to hand it back to them again so end up doing it myself
but it's so bloody irritating!

# Posted by ... - 23/08/2009, 18:33 (GMT)

Posted by Mike Collinge - 21/08/2009, 16:55 (GMT)
G @ "You cant do lead solo's on the Bass? "
.you got bloody Tony 'Sheehan' Gunderson with you now G or is he being coy!!!

# Posted by DYEHOUSE - 23/08/2009, 19:35 (GMT)

He's breaking us in gently E.
Though he made us do "Still of the night last" night cause he's got a bit of trickery he does in the quirt bit!
I'll have to start taping his fingers up to keep him under control!

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