Tuning your guitar...are you doing it wrong?

[Karmadog777]

This brings me back to my first guitar a Kay SG copy that came with a pitch pipe, I used that dang thing for about a year before I trained my self to vocally say EEEEEEEE out loud actually to the correct pitch of E . Then I would tune from there with harmonics, as I saw a friend doing. The one day I bought a "Banana Electronic Guitar Tuner" thing had a actual VU meter in it as did the Casio tuner I replaced it with years later. Nowadays I keep a clip on handy, but usually play thru plugins and just use a VST tuner.

 

[Mincer]

This brings me back to my first guitar a Kay SG copy that came with a pitch pipe, I used that dang thing for about a year before I trained my self to vocally say EEEEEEEE out loud actually to the correct pitch of E . Then I would tune from there with harmonics, as I saw a friend doing. The one day I bought a "Banana Electronic Guitar Tuner" thing had a actual VU meter in it as did the Casio tuner I replaced it with years later. Nowadays I keep a clip on handy, but usually play thru plugins and just use a VST tuner.

I totally remember the Banana tuners! I just had a tuning fork.

 

[voggin]

I remember using a 440 tuning fork and touching it to my bridge.

I had a tuning fork for years. I'm probably fooling myself, but I used it so much when I was young 40 years ago that I can still hear that pitch.

 

[SlyFoxx]

Wait. Is THAT what those things at the end of the neck are for?

 

[esandes]

LOL imagine harmonic tuning in front of a crowd with the volume up.

 

[Erlend_G]

LOL imagine harmonic tuning in front of a crowd with the volume up.

guaranteed to make them wild!! Just throw in some rock star moves simultaneously \m/

 

[Mincer]

guaranteed to make them wild!! Just throw in some rock star moves simultaneously \m/

Sometimes, that's all it takes.

 

[beaubrummels]

LOL imagine harmonic tuning in front of a crowd with the volume up.

 

[beaubrummels]

Wait. Is THAT what those things at the end of the neck are for?

Yeah it's one of them new-fangled digital tuning forks

 

[Oldfart_Shredman]

I haven't used this method in years (the 5th 7th fret harmonics, then adjust is really ingrained when not onstage), but I always liked using 12th fret harmonic compared to the fretted 7th on the next string.