Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!daveh@xtenk.asd.sgi.com From: daveh@xtenk.asd.sgi.com (David Higgen) Newsgroups: comp.music Subject: Re: Guitar Sounds (Guitarists read this...) Message-ID: <109034@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 8 Jun 91 00:41:23 GMT References: <1991Jun4.104901.1@dev0d.mdcbbs.com> <1991Jun6.142520.23126@uservx.afwl.af.mil> Sender: guest@sgi.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 14 In article <1991Jun6.142520.23126@uservx.afwl.af.mil>, galetti@uservx.afwl.af.mil writes: > > One of the most important ingredients, from my experience, is the intonation > you are using! For leads, this is not an issue, but when you try to play > chords on a keyboard and you run these chords through a distortion device, > even the slightest disonance becomes evident. The intonation of a standard > keyboard is tempered, and is quite different than on a guitar. Not so. Think about it. The frets on a guitar are straight, remember: ignoring such complications as string tension & end-effects (and assuming the fret spacing is correct), the guitar *is* an equal-temprement instrument. Dave Higgen (daveh@xtenk.asd.sgi.com)