Tuning guitars and bass

[Splat88]

Erm, use harmonics. You get more high content and the harmonics are going to be perfectly in tune by the basic laws of physics. That's how I get my basses and the 7 tuned with guitar tuners. If your tuner likes highs, give it some fucking highs.

Jeff

Come on now, I don't use anything but harmonics to tune but I suppose the post was misleading. I'm saying that my X3 does not like the 12 fret harmonics on the low string of my guitar and especially my bass. If I tune with the POD, chords are very out of tune. If I use any other tuner, everything is in tune.

 

[Splat88]

Is there any recommendable software strobe tuner? Freeware or demo, just want to see if I feel that much of a difference.

GVST makes a great freeware tuner.

http://www.gvst.co.uk/

 

[JBroll]

Fifth fret harmonics are an octave higher. Go between the second and third and there's another octave.

Jeff

 

[kramer1309]

^That would be about 1/3rd the way from the 2nd fret to the third fret, Or half way between the zero and fifth fret.

 

[JBroll]

Yes. That's what I just said. Between the second and third.

Jeff

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

Have any of you guys noticed that the PODxt and X3's tuners are extremely inaccurate, especially in the lower registers? Perhaps its just me, but I notice the same effect and all 7 of my guitars and 2 basses. Forget about tuning a bass guitar with it.

Erm, use harmonics. You get more high content and the harmonics are going to be perfectly in tune by the basic laws of physics. That's how I get my basses and the 7 tuned with guitar tuners. If your tuner likes highs, give it some fucking highs.

Jeff

Ya I been noticing my 7th string needs to be tuned higher than indicated unless i use a harmonic

 

[Sloan]

I agree that the POD built in tuner sucks assholes.

Also, dude tried to argue that guitar mode on a TU-2 is better than using any other chomatic tuner.
I hate using the guitar or bass mode on that shit. A string number is not useful musical information to me.

He started blabbing some shit about how guitar mode is setup to be tempered and shit when I was pretty sure it just shows string numbers rather than notes.
I looked in the manual and it says NOTHING about it being modified - it's just numbers instead of letters. Fucking gay.