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Old 08-02-2006, 09:41   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Angel Of Death
I guess it may be something regarding my intonation or another factor but I have definitely had times where my tuner (very high quality tuner too) says that a note is spot on, yet if I play a powerchord, it's dissonant.

Obviously though if the instrument is perfectly intonated and so on then a chromatic tuner isn't gonna be wrong!
ok how to make it simple... modern tuning (ei A at 440Hz) is like dividing 11 by 10 and trying to get whole numbers. thats the basic theory anyway... so everything has to be approximated. if you tune by harmonics/octaves you will end up short on the last segment.

also intonation, strings condition, humidity and temperature can affect your tuning
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