While I am sure that everyone on this forum has tuned guitars of every flavor thousands of times (as have I), I was wondering the details of how you all tune.
There are several factors I was thinking about addressing:
- The harder you strike a string, the sharper the tuning. Do you constantly pluck at some hardness, or wait for the string to mellow out a bit?
- Depressing the strings causes the note to go sharp. Knowing this, do you account for this in your tuning, or just tune to the open string?
- I don't know it for a fact, but I suspect that different pickup locations may give slightly different tuning. What PUP position to you use?
There may well be more factors to consider, but those are the ones I think about. What do you think?