On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 12:17:58PM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 08:37 +0100, Will J Godfrey wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 08:16:29 +0000 > > John Rigg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A Korg GA-1 tuner can go down to 5 semitones flat. It's quite common > > > in the heavier styles of rock music to downtune a few semitones. > > Interesting. Thanks for that. > > Assuming the guitar tuner is a chromatic tuner, dropped and lowered > guitar tunings don't require anything else than A = 440 Hz and if you > dislike 440Hz a range from + half of a semitone (+50 cent) to - half of > a semitone (-50 Cent). > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings#Dropped > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_guitar_tunings#Lowered
That's all very well, but tuning quickly on stage in a live gig is lot easier if your tuner goes down to the right pitch with minimal fuss. (Speaking from long experience as gigging guitarist and bassist). The GA-1 tuner I mentioned isn't a true chromatic tuner, but its ability to shift the standard guitar tunings down several semitones is very useful. In modern metal genres C or B tunings are probably more common than the standard EADGBE, so this isn't just an edge case. John _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
