10 Dec
2011
10 Dec
'11
1:17 p.m.
Hi Jostein,
On Friday 09 December 2011, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
On a guitar with an ordinary nut, the distance between
the nut and the
first fret is in general to big, this situation is better with guitars
with a zero fret. So if you tune every string (open in EADGBE) with a
tuner on a guitar without a zero fret, then it will be wrong already on
the first fret, all the notes on that fret will be slightly to sharp if
the guitar is intonated correctly on the 12th fret. And most of the other
notes will be out of tune, som to sharp and other to flat. I'm not aware
of a tuner that takes this under consideration.
On a guitar with an ordinary nut, the tuning can never be anything else
than compromises, and to tune open strings with a tuner or using
harmonics is really terrible because not many chords will sound clean.
I really recommend the links I showed in the previous post, they explains
it all much better than I do:
http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbook/Tuning/tuning.html
http://www.sternercapo.se/Compensation/index-Eng.HTM
So this is not about good or bad tuners, it's about physical laws.
Strange enough, only some very expensive guitars are shipped with for
example Earvana nuts (some ESPs and some PRS's as far as I know) -
strange, because Earvana's and SOS' are cheap and makes a big difference.
The best compromised tuning that I know about is the method Paul Guy
describes here (warning: long link with spaces):
I've read the links you posted with great interest, especially this one
"http://www.guyguitars.com/eng/handbook/Tuning/tuning.html#My favourite
method"
and here I stumbled about his favorit tuner - see www.turbo-tuner.com. After a
while of thinking about the principle of a strobe tuner I have got the
feeling, the turbo tuner could be easily implemented in software.
Does really gxtuner (or nearly any other tuner) have
functions that solve
this problem on guitars with only the bridge corrected?
Would this kind of tuner be of any help for you? Any way, I'd like to sketch
up a small test application using Jack's simple_client.c demo application as
a starter and an easy to use GUI toolkit for a first version of a graphical
user interface. By now it should not give more than a proof of concept.
Here I'd like to ask the list for a hint with which kind of GUI Toolkit
(preferably in C) I could have a quick and easy start. I fear that if I have
first to learn how to work with gtk2 or qt, I will never make progress.
Gerhard