As a Buzz Feiten user, I would love this!
Sweetened tunings... let's do this!
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It would be nice if we could create and save our own user tuning presets
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It would be nice if we could create and save our own user tuning presets
Yes please!
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Would be cool to have.
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How many times can I upvote a comment, thread, or feature request?
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lol ya right, that is gonna happen.
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Any advance on this? Please don't make me buy a Peterson tuner!!! The ability to set offsets for each string would be ideal.
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I have the Buzz Feiten offsets memorized and use the Kemper tuner, but it would be nice (yet again!) if we were able to program custom tunings.
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+1
I just bought the strobo stomp less than a year ago and while the kemper tuner is nice, I don't wanna go pedalboard but would like to use just the stage and a volume pedal on the floor ...
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Sweetened EVH please in 2025?
I wanna get rid of that Peterson and especially the power supply.
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Sweetened EVH please in 2025?
I wanna get rid of that Peterson and especially the power supply.
I’m not suggesting they shouldn’t bother….but I’ve done this with the KPA stobe tuner by tuning around 12-15 cents flat on the B.
Unless I’m missing something ….thats all EVH did, anyway.
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may I add another +1 ?
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I’m not suggesting they shouldn’t bother….but I’ve done this with the KPA stobe tuner by tuning around 12-15 cents flat on the B.
Unless I’m missing something ….thats all EVH did, anyway.
It’s not that simple. EVH nerds even have values per song.
Van Halen tunings with Peterson strobe tuner referenceI wanted to post an easy to refer list of Van Halen tunings that I have found and notated for those few out there who may be interested in getting as exactly…www.vhlinks.com
For me I’d just wanna replicate the EVH preset in my peterson. Would have to figure out what those values are. Definitely sounds more musical with Overdrive and a strat scale IMO. -
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It’s not that simple. EVH nerds even have values per song.
https://www.vhlinks.com/vbforums/threa…eference/page15
For me I’d just wanna replicate the EVH preset in my peterson. Would have to figure out what those values are. Definitely sounds more musical with Overdrive and a strat scale IMO.FWIW
these 'offsets' don't seem to take into account the base tuning of the song (as in: not 440Hz).
this makes more sense to me:
"In the March 17, 2016 issue of Guitar World:
LIVE 2015 TUNING:
Eb -9 cents
Bb -9 cents
Gb -3 cents
Db -1 cent
Ab +/-0 cents
Eb +/-0 cents
D-Tuna Db -4 cents" -
It’s not that simple. EVH nerds even have values per song.
That…..that’s ridiculous. EVH didn’t retune live.
….and people wonder why electric guitarists are impossible to satisfy….
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That…..that’s ridiculous. EVH didn’t retune live.
….and people wonder why electric guitarists are impossible to satisfy….
🤣👍
Each to their own, but my take on this is that the guitar is designed to be played in equal temperament and is best tuned accordingly. In equal temperament everything is slightly out, but nothing is too badly out, and modulation to other keys is possible with the minimum of tuning issues.
If you tune to anything other than equal temperament, you might be more in tune for one specific chord voicing, but will have more tuning problems for other voicings.
Chasing “how to tune like Eddie”, as though the magical secret to his great playing was deliberately putting certain strings out by a few hundredths of a semitone, is, in my view, completely missing the point of how and why he sounded so good.
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Chasing “how to tune like Eddie”, as though the magical secret to his great playing was deliberately putting certain strings out by a few hundredths of a semitone, is, in my view, completely missing the point of how and why he sounded so good.
That was becuase how he played (light or heavy, how he, soft or hard, gripped the fretboard) string gauge and how his guitars was setup. What worked for him doesn't necessarily work for other guitarists.
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Chasing “how to tune like Eddie”, as though the magical secret to his great playing was deliberately putting certain strings out by a few hundredths of a semitone, is, in my view, completely missing the point of how and why he sounded so good.
It seems people don’t realize (or don’t care) that the reason EVH’s tuning varied was because of the commonly known lowering of the B to smooth out certain chords and……
1. They’d tune to each other (Michael and Eddie). Not to some magical ‘middle’. The guitars would come out….one tuned to the other (ignoring whether or not it was 440) and go.2. The tape speed (this was all pre-digital) would be varied after the fact for various reasons. It was a studio hack for tempo, feel etc.
Eddie was an Original….but many things were simply accidental or the result of fixes. Not some relentless tinkering of “This song should be 8 cents down on the B, and 12 cents down on the D…”
Just when I thought I knew how superstitious electric players were (including me)……find another level…..
