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After doing that (which was a surprise), I used a strobe tuner to setup my tuning to +3/-3 on every alternating string, played a passage that way, retuned to exact pitch, and played the same passage. I gave both recordings to my GF who renamed them at random, recording the original names, then sent me back the renamed versions. I could tell a difference, could not tell which was which, or really choose which I liked better. Obv allow for self selecting populations, I have no idea about normal, and I do have an interest in whether intentional tuning off beat has advantages in perceived tone (which is a claim Peterson makes, irrespective of the source or their ACU feature .. i.e. they don't mention JT in their regular advertising of the feature). Last edited by Sadie-f; 10-05-2022 at 11:51 AM. |
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My point though, which you seem to ignore, is that that blog blurb may be partly inaccurate, urban legend, out of context, any number of possible subjectivities. Just because a marketing dude says something doesn't make it 100% true. |
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I've seen musicians who would normally fill 10,000+ venues/stadiums playing 100-500 seat venues many times, Jerry Garcia and Neil Young among them. I'm not ignoring your point, neither POV is provably correct in this context. However I see no rationale for Peterson to dissimulate, or to risk pissing off JT. Most people that famous have folks looking after their brand. |
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Turtle Last edited by turtlejimmy; 10-05-2022 at 12:46 PM. |
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Tommy Emmanuel just gives his strings a little tug after applying his capos and then just fine tunes by ear after that. No fancy nothing- and he often uses a Kyser to boot- yuck! I guess when you’re good you’re good!
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Time to retire this thread and get back to playing in tune? That’s my vote.
All the best, Bob
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James Taylor’s sweetened tuning
So one commenter who personally dislikes JT has to derail this thread?
I was trying to honestly discuss a tuning method, and someone has to talk about bikini-clad women whom they never met and assume they got an opiate problem from a boat ride. We already knew you dislike JT but telling us once was not enough, you needed to also accuse someone you don’t know of ruining innocent lives. As I recall rule #1 is ‘be nice.’ Besides derailing my discussion, it’s shockingly rude and irrelevant. Admins, remove if desired. Sorry.
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My only input is that, as others have said, Peteson's sweetened tunings mimic JT's (or so I've heard).
I recall that I used a tc electronics tuner (which even allows for specific capo settings), and always thought an open-D just sounded "off". If I tried to retune, it was just more of the same. Then I happened to see the JT video and wondered if I am hearing tuning the same way. I bought the Peterson, and tuned using the Sweetened ACU setting: bingo! Open-Ds now sound good. I do think that an open-G can sound a bit off in the same way using this, but a minor low-E correction seems to alleviate that. I hadn't noticed any other anomalies, so I'm sticking with it!
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I'll echo B1J's comment above. "Time to retire this thread and get back to playing in tune."
This thread is closed Rick AGF Moderator
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