A great video for beginners like myself. You explained everything clearly and concisely and it was easy to understand. Well done!!! I always look forward to your videos.
Easy, simple, too the point and informative. Most want to spend 15 minutes on intonation but if you have an unmarked bridge and a beginner at restringing this is the video. Thank you.
Well Michael, How these tuners have progressed over the years, so easy these days. Another very informative, Rewarding, Enjoyable video, Many Thanks Michael & God Bless you all.
I have played an out of tune guitar but never played a over cooked cheese burger 🍔 I was just thinking earlier today about how you pronounce your last name. Thanks Michael. I have used tuning forks, I have E and A, harmonicas, I have a briefcase full and my phone. My battery is always dead in my clip-on. Actually I usually watch one of your videos. Now I need to see what you have to sell.
Thanks John. Ive played some out of tune guitars my self, no fun. I keep a pack of those little flat batteries for the clip on tuners, they don't last very long. You'll know when the batteries are going low, it starts tuning your guitar all wacky lol
Very informative video Michael. I would like to add that you sometimes can’t always trust them. As a new builder/player I was getting very frustrated and convinced I was doing something wrong with my builds because when I tuned them they sounded terrible. I got a local recording artist to come over and he tried tuning with the tuner and took it off and through it away and tuned it by ear, what a difference. It was an ENO ET-33 off Amazon, baaaddddd. I then downloaded one from an app and it is very good, it is InsTuner. I was then in the local music store and thought I would get one they recommended so I got a Silver Snark and it is not any good either. So long story short make sure you get a good one or maybe 2 for double checking and it also wouldn’t hurt to have an ear like yours.
Thanks Bob, Very true, not everything works as it should. Most things are made pretty poorly and cheap these days. Yes, it is good to have a couple different ways of tuning, so you can double check it. A good ear does help :) M~
Nice to see the basics, one thing I see you doing is tuning up to the final position where if you over shoot and it is sharp over top of the green zone you then tune down below the green zone into the flat territory and then tighten back up again until you hit it dead on and get the green.
I have a few different Fender tuners, they're great. Try a Snark sometime. Very affordable and tough. I left mine in my jacket pocket and washed my jacket. I realized this 🤪 error before I threw it in the dryer. That little tuner works as good as it did when I first used it right out of the box 😂
I've always intonated by making sure the open string was in tune of course, but to intonate I was taught to fret the note and check, then strike an open harmonic on the same string, then adjust around the fretted note and the harmonic. You ever tried it that way? I use strobe tuners though, including a vintage CONN ST which actually works great.
Thanks Mario, I usually try to stay at around 5mm at the 12th fret, the first fret will vary some. I have made quite a few fret less guitars. I haven't made one in a while, maybe its time to build one. I like playing fret less with a slide, always fun. M~
Hey Mike, is it normal for the lower frets(1-5 or so) to be a little sharp? My guitars, including a factory made telecaster, all have this problem. Open and 12th are tuned, but goes sharp towards the nut.
Hi Jack, I don't think its normal, could be hard to pin point, lot of factors involved. Fret spacing, nut height, string gauge, intonation. Weird that its doing it on multiple guitars though.
