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As for other culprits, if you are not equipped with locking tuners, then the string could be slipping on the tuner post. In the absence of locking tuners, I have found it necessary to wrap one turn of the string below the hole, and the remainder above the hole, so that together they cinch the string into place. This is a visual example of what I am attempting to describe. Before adopting that technique, I have had strings slip on the tuning posts. I would double-check your E string winding around the peg. (On my electrics, I have abandoned original equipment in favor of locking tuners. Just one less thing to worry about, and the time to wind the cinching wraps has become unnecessary.)
As far as the bass goes, try tuning it from the 12th fret E, or use the E harmonic. Sometimes tuners just can't get enough signal or vibration to give an accurate reading. This doesn't tend to happen with a strobe I think, but I can recommend giving that a try!
Often, I use 24th fret and 19th fret harmonics on bass, as these notes have higher frequencies that tuners seem to find easier to 'hear'. Once one string is in tune, I'll use harmonics to get the others in tune with it. Probably makes no difference, but I'm happier with the strings being in tune with each other than each being in tune with a tuner. Assuming, of course, that the instrument is properly intonated.
Yes. I'e encountered the same problems with all too accurate tuners, especially on bass. Even headless ones where one tunes up back at the bridge. As fast as you touch the intrument the actual touching is enough to make the most accurate tuner showing you're out of tune!
Especially those by Sonic Research, called Turbo Tuner, and Peterson StroboSoft. They're true strobe tuners. But the Turbo Tuner, is spinning too fast like a roulette wheel when it's only 0.5 cents or 0.002 cents wrong which is too accurate for any plucked instrument. Because - always - when you hit a string it ALWAYS go up in pitch then settles at rigth pitch but 10 seconds in, it always drops flat.
This is mitigated by using tuners that aren't that accurate, or compensated for guitars and basses, and detects the initial attack. If you play speed metal on bass and repeatedly shredding fast 16th notes everyone of them becomes way too sharp regardless of how accurate intonation or accurate tuning.
These days, if you have the possibility to try out a bass that has longer scale on the lowest strings than the highest, called FANNED FRETS or MULTI SCALE you'll be in for a treat. The lowest string doesn't go up initially in pitch while whacking the string hard. Instead of buying one of these, I would suggest using less accurate tuners on stage live, actually. No one can tune any guitar to Turbo Tuners 0.02 cents accuracy anyway. 0.5 cents is enough since people can only detect +- 3 cents difference anyway.
Keep those strobe tuners at the repair bench for intonation, at home or studio where you have all the time in the world. But get a "fast" and "as good as it gets" tuner out live on stage. Just because that they - the too accurate ones - show that you're "out of tune" just by touching the bass or guitar.
I've even detected with some tuners that while I am turning a tuner up at the headstock FOR ANOTHER STRING the other say first string that I tuned up precisely starts to change tuning because of the added, or diminished tension of the neck relief that his held up by all strings correct tuning. Chew on that for a while. It sure ain't heard, but the tuner detects it.
If it shows the same, you have a sturdy built neck and bass, but if it's changing you'll probably hear some fret buzz too and notices that the action, relief has changed too. This is due to that the neck/bass/body hasn't got enough mass to withstand gravitation changes on its own total mass. Too weak and poor build. It flexes due to little changes in orientation. Most Gibson SGs and variatons thereof suffers from this and it's why they're poor in keeping in tune once tuned up.
The larger exposed bass gear can usually have any gunk removed simply by blowing it out with compressed air. On your next string change, grab an air compressor or a can of compressed air, turn the gear through a full revolution or two and just blow out any gunk you see in there, if any.
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This, however, is true.
I still would recommend to buy a tuner as soon as possible, because you are making the tuning process more complicated and time consuming than it has to be compared to a real tuner - especially for a beginner in my opinion.
If your phone tuner cannot pick up the E or A string well, you can still tune the D/G strings to the phone and then tune down by fifths by ear, which is how everyone used to tune before cheap tuners were available. And it works fine, but is tedious.
If you want to buy a Tuner I would definitely suggest Kork TM60 instead of the clip on which is super precise and it works also by either directly connecting your bass and / or through its micrphone. It works with any instrument that way practically.
Standard tuning on a Bass guitar is E1 A1 D2 G2. If you are a guitar player you might recognise this pattern as the same as the first 4 strings of a guitar in standard tuning. However the bass is tuned a whole octave lower than the guitar.
Our tool focuses on standard bass tuning, however if you want to tune to another alternate bass tuning try out our chromatic tuner which lets you tune to any note on the 12 note scale.
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By turning the tuner clockwise, the pitch of the string will raise and turing the peg counterclockwise will lower the pitch. As well investigate below, the correct standard tuning for a 4 string bass guitar, from lowest note to highest note, is E-A-D-G
2. Pedal Tuners. These are pedals are meant to go inside your pedal chain and allow for you to tune quickly and easily during a show without ever having to unplug your bass or turn off your rig.
Save your markings on the bass guitar by copying the web address in your browser. This also allows you to share your markings with others. For example, here is a A major scale and the bass notes for the song Bitter Sweet Symphony.
This article was co-authored by Carlos Alonzo Rivera, MA. Carlos Alonzo Rivera is a guitarist, composer, and educator based in San Francisco, California. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from California State University, Chico, as well as a Master of Music degree in Classical Guitar Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Carlos specializes in the following genres: classical, jazz. rock, metal and blues.
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Bass strings are tuned to E, A, D, G, with E as the lowest, thickest string. Over time, the strings of your bass guitar will fall out of tune with each other. These slightly off strings can make even perfect performances sound awful. To prevent your bass guitar playing from clashing with itself and other instruments, you should tune your bass before every performance. For the most common kind of bass, the four string, you can tune it to another instrument, make use of relative tuning, or use an electronic tuner.
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