Re: [LAD] 'A' note Tuning Range - Linux-audio-dev

11 Apr 2019

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:17:58PM +0200, linux(a)justmail.de wrote:
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  On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 08:37 +0100, Will J Godfrey
wrote:
  On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:16:29 +0000
 John Rigg &lt;ladev9(a)jrigg.co.uk&gt; wrote:
  A Korg GA-1 tuner can go down to 5 semitones
flat. It's quite common
 in the heavier styles of rock music to downtune a few semitones.  Interesting.
Thanks for that.  
 Assuming the guitar tuner is a chromatic tuner, dropped and lowered
 guitar tunings don't require anything else than A = 440 Hz and if you
 dislike 440Hz a range from + half of a semitone (+50 cent) to - half of
 a semitone (-50 Cent).

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings#Dropped
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings#Lowered 
That's all very well, but tuning quickly on stage in a live gig
is lot easier if your tuner goes down to the right pitch with
minimal fuss. (Speaking from long experience as gigging guitarist
and bassist).

The GA-1 tuner I mentioned isn't a true chromatic tuner, but
its ability to shift the standard guitar tunings down several
semitones is very useful. In modern metal genres C or B tunings
are probably more common than the standard EADGBE, so this isn't
just an edge case.

John