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Topic: push pull users |
Lavon Chappell
From:
The Heart of Dixie
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Posted 14 Dec 2012 11:13 pm |
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| Do you guys use a tempered tuning or tune to 440 |
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Jack Stoner
From:
Kansas City, MO
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Posted 15 Dec 2012 3:18 am
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Its a personal choice. There is no "right way".
I used the Jeff Newaman tunings (ref to 440). But, I've seen others tune straight up, and various alternatives. |
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Joey Ace
From:
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 15 Dec 2012 3:31 am
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Tempered, no different than my All Pulls.
The difference is in the tuning procedure.
The final result is the same. |
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Eric Philippsen
From:
Central Florida USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2012 3:42 pm
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| The type of pedal steel reall makes no difference in regard to how one chooses to tune it. |
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Mike Schwartzman
From:
Maryland, USA
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Posted 15 Dec 2012 7:04 pm
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Another guy using Newman tuning here... both push pull and all pull.
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Larry Bell
From:
Englewood, Florida
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Posted 17 Dec 2012 9:42 am
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FWIW, tuning to 440 WITH A DIGITAL TUNER ACTUALLY IS TEMPERED TUNING. It's called EQUAL TEMPERAMENT (ET)
Un-tempered tuning (natural tuning) is achieved by tuning to harmonics and results in what is called JUST INTONATION.
The Newman chart (and many others) is a variation on just intonation. Some versions move everything sharp by a few cents, so your E's are tuned to 441 or 442Hz (4 or 8 cents sharp). That way, the F's are not nearly half a fret flat as they are with strictly just intonation.
There are WAAAAAY more than just these two options. Everyone tunes to whatever sounds best to their ears. I try to stay as close to ET (straight up on tuner) as I can but fudge a bit on G#s C#s and Fs on E9.
Sometimes we get bogged down in the terminology. It doesn't matter how someone else tunes. If your guitar sounds in tune to you, keep doing whatever you did to get it there.
Jeff just wrote down the tuner offsets for a guitar that had been tuned properly. If I recall correctly it was Lloyd Green's guitar he originally got the numbers from.
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Jack Goodson
From:
new brockton,alabama (deceased)
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Posted 17 Dec 2012 9:52 am tuning?
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| lavon: if you will bring that pp over here one day i will show you how to tune (JJ tuning)works perfect everytime....jack |
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