Peterson StrobostompHD question...

Frank James Pracher · From: Michigan, USA

I'm looking at picking up a new tuner. The Strobostomp HD looks nice.
I just play 6 string lap steel in C6 tuning. Would I get benefit from the "Sweetened" C6 tuning... or is that more for folks with more strings.
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Jon Jaffe · From: Austin, Texas

If I had only one string on a washtub bass I would use a Peterson Tuner. Maybe you’d like the sweetened C6 tuning, try it.

Andrew Frost · From: Toronto, Ontario

A 'sweetened' tuning is any tuning system that, theoretically, brings 2 or more strings closer to natural resonance, based on overtones, or the harmonic overtone series.
Usually this results in major 3rds and 6ths of a tuning being flattened from concert pitch equal temperament.

6-string C6 is a good way to get familiar with this..
If you listen closely to your root string, C, you will hear a very faint G note resonating as well an E.. These are overtones. You probably know this, but they can be extracted in chime/harmonic form around the 7th and 4th fret for the G and E respectively. If you tune your corresponding G and E strings to these overtones you will have a tuning on those strings that is 'sweetened' substantially from the pitches that a basic ET tuner will give you.
Your 'A' string, the maj6th, will in turn have overtones, the most pronounced being the E that can be chimed at the 7th fret. If you tune that harmonic E to the previously tuned E string/s, you'll have a very 'sweetened' C6 tuning, based on natural harmonics.

I use a Strobostomp tuner, and I find it useful because its very accurate, and it also allows me to program in personal tuning offsets or 'sweeteners', as well as having an ET option.

Andrew Frost · From: Toronto, Ontario

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