Browsing a few guitar related websites I have found this website speaking, among other things, about tuning problems, especially for rock bands.
Some of them I already knew because I have observed them myself but others never crossed my mind. I must tell you the article is not a short one, but very informative, the information there is a gem and a must read for anyone who’s ever held a guitar in his hands and tried to tune it.
The man(Jack Endino) has a lot of years behind him as a rock music player and as a studio engineer and he speaks from experience. Here’s a quick extras from his website, just to open your appetite for reading further:
You know how when you plug a guitar in and pluck a string, sometimes the tuner needle (or LED display) wavers back and forth and drives you crazy? And you have to pluck it every which way before getting a “good reading” which finally “settles down?” Do these three things:
switch your guitar to its rhythm (neck) pickup, if it has one;
roll your guitar’s tone knobs all the way off, to remove all the highs; and then
pluck the open string right over the twelfth fret, not over the pickup. Try it; you’ll be amazed.
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