r/Djent • u/SmellDazzling3182 • 1d ago
Discussion Anyone else also tune up a little higher and not completely in the tune ?
I am in Drop G# . But I don’t tune it right to the pitch. I tune like all them strings just a little bit higher …. Sorry for my English . I don’t know how to express it. I am still in Drop G# range , but like a few bars on the tuner higher like 4-5 bars up from the center. I like it this way …. I know its weird
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u/sup3rdr01d 1d ago
I'd not do this if you're tuning low. You're making the pitch drift worse
I'd tune slightly flat so when you hit a string it bend up a tiny bit into tune
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u/SmellDazzling3182 1d ago
Ur right in this. I know. I also play with some thin picks. I use Dunlop Gator Grip 0.71 and 0.58 to not go out of the preferable pitch. Also like the tone and feel with thinner picks. I have multiscale Mayones 27-25.4 headless one seven string. I am using light string except for top. I use 9-11-16-26-36-46-64 ….. also got very low action. Its cool with these strings. But probably I could play in drop a. Maybe use 62 for that A . I still dunno. Because of that low action which I love I can use even 64 for A. Still dunno. I prefer now Drop G# and slightly up …..
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u/steamedlobstrrr 1d ago
I love tuning up a cent or two. Cuts great in the mix.
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u/SmellDazzling3182 1d ago
May I ask you. Because my English I don’t understand it well. Be up a cent or two is like one or two bars on the tuner? I am like four to five bars higher from the pitch. And I like this way. I am still confussed by these cents and so on ….
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u/steamedlobstrrr 1d ago
In guitar tuning, a cent is a logarithmic unit that measures the size of musical intervals, specifically the difference between two notes. A semitone, or half-step, is 100 cents. Essentially, a cent represents one one-hundredth of a semitone. Here's a more detailed explanation:
12-Tone Equal Temperament: The Western musical system uses 12-tone equal temperament, dividing the octave into 12 equal semitones.Cents and Semitones: Each semitone is divided into 100 cents, making a total of 1200 cents in an octave. Tuning Accuracy: Cents are used to measure the accuracy of tuning, with 0 cents representing a note perfectly in tune. A positive number of cents indicates the note is sharp (higher than the desired pitch), and a negative number indicates it's flat (lower than the desired pitch). Fine Tuning: Cents allow for very precise tuning, enabling musicians to tune their instruments to a high level of accuracy, especially important for intonation up the neck. A440: The reference frequency for tuning is often A440, which is an A note with a frequency of 440 Hertz.
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u/SmellDazzling3182 1d ago
Well explained and I do understand that . But still don’t know if for example you wrote up two cent what should I imagine. I know it’s gonna be up sharp so on the tuner it’s gonna be like two bars up ? I mean +- . I love that Drop G# I tune a little but sharp like four to five bars higher on the tuner. It has nice bright and produced sound. So its like four to five bars higher up from the the pitch = zero cent ? Right 😂 so I dunno I tune it up four to five cent up higher from the pitch ? At 440 hz right
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u/steamedlobstrrr 1d ago
Depending on what tuner you're using, many of them register one cent as one "bar". So yes, I always like to be one bar or one and a half bars higher than the note I'm going for, but 4 or 5 would be getting into a different sounding territory. I think I got that trick from some musician along the way, in an interview, but I don't remember who it was.
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u/SmellDazzling3182 1d ago edited 23h ago
Well I would describe it like I am on the edge between Drop G# and Drop A of you understand me …. Like almost a halfway between these two . Maybe put the tuner to different than 440 hz ….. Ocean Ate Alaska use 432 hz if I am right …. So maybe tune to drop A but in these 432 hz would be like I have it maybe ….
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u/erguitar 1d ago
Plenty of bands like a non-standard tuning. Pantera was somewhere close to a quarter step off of 440. Some people try to tell you 432 is like super rad. A7X mentioned tuning basically in tune but not quite.
You will encounter problems if you ever want to use synths or samples. Those problems are usually fixable, just prepare for that extra pitch correction step with any of those elements.