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How to set guitar intonation including important preparations steps for best results. By Luthier Galeazzo Frudua.
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Step-by-step technician guitar setup lesson that shows you how to learn to adjust the intonation on your Stratocaster bridge guitar or bass guitar and stay in tune using a guitar tuner. Free video lesson on adjusting electric guitar intonation.
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Free video guitar setup lessons on setting guitar intonation guitar and bass guitar intonation of Stratocaster, Les Paul style guitars, and bass guitars, for those who want to learn tricks and secrets of guitar setup (adjust string height, adjust intonation) and get rid of guitar fret buzz.
Setting a strat guitar intonation adjustment is a pretty simple task you can see it in this instructional video. All you have to do is play a harmonic at the 12th fret, compare it to the note fretted at the same fret, and make sure the two notes match.
If the fretted note is sharp you will have to move the saddle at the bridge of this particular string away from the neck (toward the strap end pin) and if it is flat you will have to move the saddle toward the neck side.
But there are a lot of steps you should follow before you actually set guitar intonation before you adjust your guitar's intonation.
First to properly set your guitar's intonation you have to mount a new set of strings, adjust the truss rod adjust the string height at the bridge.
This will allow you to get rid of guitar fret buzz.
For how to change the strings on a guitar with a tremolo or whammy bar and how to set guitar bridge adjustment (action), adjusting the string height/action on your guitar, please check my other dedicated video on this channel.
Also to perform a correct intonation adjustment on your guitar you have to lower the pickups because pickups are built with magnets that attract strings by pulling them and this influences the guitar intonation adjustment.
Guitar intonation must be performed in the playing position or be careful to place the guitar on a table so that the gravity force does not influence the intonation setup like is shown in this video.
Other tips on how to set up a guitar intonation is you have to follow is allowing the strings to naturally set on the bridge saddles
Follow the video and if you have questions just write.
I'm watching this is 2020 - and it is still the perfect guide to intonation of a Strat-style bridge
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Amazing. Been playing for upwards of 10 years. I've watched countless vidoes for repair, sound, tricks, and general maintenance, and this takes the cake. By far the best video I've ever watched for guitar knowledge!
I must admit, Im another one alive example. Around 15 years of experience and now I have found simple physical explanation of the whole package of rules useful during Intonation adjustment. Thanks for This!
I just finished setting up my new guitar thanks to your videos man. You're helping so many people like me around the world who are watching your older videos even in 2021. Thanks a lot! :)
My first year picking up a guitar ever and i am in my 50's. Thank you lock down pandemic. Learning tons and tons on so many levels.
Thank you for the easy to grasp information for a new player such as myself.
Congratulations! It’s never too late. I was 58 now 69. Still consider myself a beginner who can do some intermediate things but due to my pained fingers and illness I can play only a couple of songs. lol Guess I should have put down the trumpet in the band and borrowed the guitarist’s guitar. I’m having fun and that is what counts. I learned all the fix it up stuff though and that’s lots of fun. Keep playing.
Never thought about lowering the pickups first but that tip made the intonation much more accurate..Thank's for the tip. When the pickups are all the way down, my tuner settles down too. I just raised my pickups until my tuner started dancing then slowly backed down until the tuner steadied again.. The tone sounds great and every note on the fret board is right on. My Strat thank's you for the advice.
I have just replaced the bridge on my Mexican strat, adjusted the action and now it’s time to set the intonation based on your guidance. Really helpful, I learned a great deal here, thank you!
You showed me how to solve my intonation issue, saved me the expense of a professional luthier, taught me useful skills, and enabled me to avoid putting my Strat in the guitar hospital. It's also really satisfying to be able to do more than change strings and use a tuner. Thank you!
This is hands down the best video I have seen on intonation! It was really helpful that you explained the theory behind the adjustments while you demonstrated them. Many thanks from Ireland!
You really took the mystery out of intonation for me. I had imagined it was something only a "Master Luthier" could be capable of doing!
Thanks, just going to watch your "Truss rod adjustment" video now and I might be able to save myself some money by being able to set up my own guitars instead of a music store doing it for me.
I agree with the last post you received 3 years ago, it reads "Amazing. Been playing for upwards of 10 years. I've watched countless videos for repair, sound, tricks, and general maintenance, and this takes the cake. By far the best video I've ever watched for guitar knowledge!" But i have been playing guitar for 48 years now. Awesome video dude.
12 minutes of gold. Learnt more here than anywhere else on the Tube.
Thank you!
Very clear vision on how to do intonation on stratocaster, i have squier stratocaster since 2006, but never think of doing proper set up, just play and during Corona pandemic, i think it was a good idea to give my lovely axe special treatment. Hooe you will always ve fine, you really did a good job. May God bless you.
Ditto
Very good, I have been seting up strats for over thirty years. You explain it very well. There's always something new when you see different luthiers performing a setup.
Thank you, you are good!
This is honestly an amazing video without a sales pitch. love it. thank you!
Hey Galeazzo, I have been playing guitar for along time now & I want to let you know I think your videos are great. Here I was impressed to see how you note the effect of gravity on the neck & how this affects intonation & tuning. Many people starting out don't realise this significant variable, but it's the 1st thing you talk about. You are helping the world's guitar players sound better, thanks brother!
This was the most helpful video i could find. Learned a lot. Thanks!
Excellent and very resourceful video. Thank you very much.
Finally a good video on this! I like how you actually teach not only the techniques, but also the science behind it!
Thank you for your excellent video demonstration. Your substantial amount of step-by-step detail was done in a very concise manner, without wasting time with a lot of irrelevant detail. It was obviously very well thought out, and you have seemingly done this many times. Very enjoyable, and informative.
Sick off paying top dollar for crap set ups by so called luthiers ! After 20 years of going Iam gona give it a go my self thanks for all these videos, give me the confidence to try it myself, and dispels all the "dark arts" that people don't tell you
I do my own by necessity. I cant afford to pay a luthier.
@@bigimskiweisenheimer8325 me too.its not that hard after a couple of times.
Mine turns out better than sending it to a tech now that I do it myself. All you need is a ruler.
Dude thank you so much for this! I'm gonna watch all your video's! Excellent! Grazie!
In 2023 this is still the best tips out there
your videos are very helpful. Ive had a strat for years and knew how to do this, but just the fact that youre willing to help out other guitarists and techs out is a godsend. thank you for all the contributions frudua.
Many thanks from Brazil. I understood everything perfectly.
I never knew half of this. Subbed.
That was by far the best explanation for intonation setup I have ever seen. Thank you so much. AWESOME!
What a great tutorial on proper intonation! With so many tutorials out there, this one gets to the point quickly and quite effectively!
Frudua you are the best!!!!! Thansk for a fantastic job with these videos! Much, much appreciated!! You rule!
Very helpful video. My guitar now has proper intonation!
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Absolutely the best instructions ever for this! I guarantee many major acts out there today are not even coming close to this with their guitar techs on the road or in studio even. Thank you very much!
You changed my life!
One thing I notice after intonation, is that my some of my notes when playing chords are a little sharp.... so I adjust again until the chords aren't sharp anymore, and everything is still in tune. That's when I'm finished intonating. It's obsessive but I can't stand flat or sharp notes on chords. All your guitar knowledge is very helpful, thank you.
Don't worry you're not obsessive, you're professional!
I love your videos! You explain everything so much in depth and detail, demonstrate well, it's just MILES better than any videos on youtube! Can't wait to try using these tips on my strat! I have been having intonations issues lately and it's making me crazy! Thank you again!!!
You are an amazing resource and I've learned more about my guitars from you than any other source. Thanks for putting your great knowledge on the internet.
Another fantastic video, Mr. Frudua. So much to digest. Also, I suggest turning on captions if you want to have a good laugh. Let's just say it struggles.
This usually happens on some guitars (even high branded priced ones) equipped with two pivots instead that 6 screws tremolo when, due to the softness of the wood used for the body, the two pivots bend toward the headstock thus leaving less room for the intonation sscrews to correct the intonation. In this case you should try to remove or reduce the length of the springs that hold the intonation screws or take the guitar to a technician that solve the pivots bending.
Great video,thanks for all your lessons on guitar set up.Clear,concise,and very informative.You are a very good teacher.Respect.
This is the best video for this I've seen. So easy to follow. Thanks for sharing.
This is exactly what I am insisting on and I explain at the beginning of this video: how to rest the guitar before you set it up so that there is no difference if you'd do this in playing position.
Great vid but one thing you could also discuss is when intonation won't work. The reason is almost certainly a nut misplacement. It is too close or too far from the first fret and you will NEVER get the guitar in tune until the nut is positioned as if it was fret 0.
Very good vid!
He said to make sure "other " stuff
was done first,to set intonation
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@@robertgodhard3248 exactly.
This is the best explanation of setting intonation I have ever seen.Thank so much for putting that up, it's so easy to get it correct now.John
This is the best intonation tutorial on youtube.
What do I do when I reached the limit of the saddle and is still not perfectly in tune?
That happens to me on the 5th and 6th strings (the lowest)
Sacco Svd If you search google, the most common fix for this is string hight/truss rod adjustment. just do some research! :) Good luck
Ricky Anthony
That or old/bad strings....which was the case with my guitar, the strings that came with my Kramer guitar were busted already. :)
+Ricky Anthony mine is the same where there is no change, and ive already moved the saddles back as far as they go. new strings and all. and the neck is straight. the only note that are fine are A and High E.
Yeah, I wonder if it's to do with the quality of the manufacturing, or just wear on the screws, etc, in which case I think they can be replaced. I'm never buying a guitar again, without making sure it can be set-up easily.
Some people say to cut the spring in half or remove it to get a little more adjustment. I have a similar problem with my low E. I think it's just that the string vibrates and oscillates much more when picked. So it needs to be higher than the other strings and ends up having to be quite high with the saddle further back to add length to compensate.
I just managed it by mashing my saddle spring.
shudnt u intonate like u play cuz when u hold it gravity pulls down on the strings?
generally speaking measurements should be made in the playing position . there is a little sag in the strings but often the magnetic pull makes a bigger difference
Your attention to detail is by far the best I have ever seen , Thank you so much for sharing your expertise , I can now explore the perfectionist in my setup , Thanks again
It makes me so very happy to see you recommending to pull the sharpness out of a string rather than to use the tuning machine. Stretching the strings is such an important part of getting the guitar settled and prepared to hold a tuning. Thank you for sharing your great love of music with all of us here. Warm regards - John
i dont understand why you lower the pickups, intonate, and then raise them again. wouldnt doing this put the intonation off again after raising?
Yeah, I thought the same thing. It's almost like this step is pointless. I know the magnets in the pickup can pull on a string causing it to buzz and ultimately affect its intonation. But it seems that would be something you'd always want to avoid. So, yeah. What's the point?
It appears that intonation is the result of the string length (obvious when you see the adjustment). The pickup altering the pitch is an effect on the sound that you want to remove while getting the length correct. If the pickup height is truly altering the sound in a bad way, then that is a different adjustment (isolate each problem). I screwed up my intonation many years ago thinking that the hex bolts were just tuners :) I am now about to finally fix my intonation. I know I have an intonation problem because if I tune the 12th fret perfectly, the further away you get from that fret the worse the tuning is. My top 2 strings are pretty bad while the other strings are a bit better. As I understand it, this is a perfect example of bad intonation (string length).
Richard Lopez / the pickups can and will pull the strings out of tune if u lower them..you have a higher success of properly intonating your guitar. then readjust pickup height and if ur having issues u can eliminate intonation bc u know its been done right .
DO NOT intonate with the guitar laying down, it will mess everything up on a vibrato system, intonate the guitar in playing position
In my opinion you are the best at what you do on you tube, I've put together quite a few strats now and everything I've needed to know I've picked up from your posts, thank you .
Great video! Thanks. Improved the intonation on my strat significantly.
why would you lower the pickups to intonate the guitar if you don't play the guitar that way... your intonation will be off after you raise the pickups back up. (food for thought)
AchillesXI why would you want the pickup magnets to pull every note sharp? I understand what you're saying but you can't compensate for the magnetic pull in the tuning of the guitar. Magnetic field isn't strong enough and you'll get a warbling sound.
Yeah but he's saying to lower it even lower than how you'd actually play it (which is presumably before it starts to get warbly), then raise it back up to normal height after intonation, where again it will be affected a little more by the pickup's magnets. I was thinking the same thing that AchillesXI asked. You don't raise it back to make the notes sharp or ruin the string's ability to vibrate, you just raise it back to normal. I would intonate this way instead of lowering them first.
As far as I've understood (and what we can hear in the video), higher pickup does not sharpen the note, it destabilizes string vibration (wobbly sound), making tuner reading unstable.
Nenad Vićentić you are exactly correct. the issue with pickups being too high is not so much that it changes the intonation, but rather it interferes with or destabilizes vibration. thus, making correct intonation much more difficult to achieve due to vibration interference.
Good video, but, you NEVER EVER NEVER EVER NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER set-up or tune your guitar when it's laying on it's back. It WILL BE out of tune when you lift it into a playing position. Try it.
+Quentin James Then how should you do it? I'm not being sarcastic, I actually want to learn
+cancionini I found it worked good by sitting with the guitar in the normal playing position.You just adjust it the same way, but instead of it lying on it's back.
Thanks!
+Quentin James You only initially do it for the precision of the intonation. Then after that you're set to tune in playing position.
+Quentin James If you payed attention thats the first thing he explained and demonstrated why. He continued for the sake of the video.
Greeting from Liverpool, UK.
Excellent video Mr Fruda, thanks for taking the time to make it and giving other people the benefit of your experience.
I like some of the tips you gave such as supporting the neck if working on a bench, something I never really thought about, and the way you explained all the theory aspects when setting up guitar intonation was very good.
Now I'm going to watch at all your other videos for some more tips.
Again, thank you for your time and experience.
Ciao.
This is the best video on intonation on UA-cam. Thank you Galeazzo!
Thanks for the in depth videos, I can set up my basses and guitars with the knowledge as to why things work they way they do.
So far I have watched a couple of your videos and I am REALLY impressed. Your explanations and demonstrations are easy to follow. I especially like how you draw on the white board to explain the theory, then follow it up with a real world demonstration. Thank you so much for the videos you have produced thus far, I am looking forward to watching more!
THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST USEFUL GUITAR TIPS ON TUNING I HAVE SEEN IN A LONG TIME. FANTASTIC AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING. GOD BLESS
one of the Most informative Videos I've seen on UA-cam in months !
Wow. You offered several tips I have heard no where else and they explain numerous issues I have encountered. Thank you for being you.
this is the best video on UA-cam.. thank you so much for explaining this.. the guitar shop guys where I stay don't know anything about guitar setup.. the guy was adjusting string height to do intonation..
Thank you guys it's a pleasure helping you achieving what you look for.
excellent tutorial with a very clear presentation.
Grazie Galeazzo!
You gave a very detailed account on how to set the intonation on the guitar. Before I saw your video, I thought I could never accomplish this task. This will actually be my first time attempting this, but I'm confident that everything will be alright!
Master Frudua, no words to thank you enough for sharing your knowledge. Grazie mille!
This is a brilliant guide with LOADS of useful information! Thanks a lot, it's really appreciated.
Awesome video, I learned a ton. I love how you not only teach the actions to take but you demonstrate the reason why the actions are so important. Subscribed to your channel!
Outstanding tutorial. Very well done.
I love your videos, they are straight forward and easy to follow.
Well done! I've intonated several guitars and missed some of these steps. This makes very good sense. Excellent job!
Thanks man. Short, concise, and to the point. Perfect!!
Fantastic video! Really makes one understand all the various factors that effect the intonation of a guitar, which are not immediately apparent! Wonderful!!!
I really dig your videos. I always learn something new, even when I think I already knew everything on a subject. Cheers from Texas, Zach.
excellent! thank you very much! havent seen anything such professional and clear as your videos.
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Thank you for all the tips and tricks.
As always, your videos are fantastic! Thank you Frudua!. Steve
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Thank you for posting this! I've been playing and doing it myself for many years and have never been able to get it perfect until now.
Simply amazing!! Especially your theoretical parts were really informative and helpful overall. Thanks alot.
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Great Master Frudua!!! 👋😃. My Tagima Strat T-635 plays great after your video and your golden tips. Thank you very very much for your wonderful videos and tutorial about the guitar setup. Cheers from Viamão City - Brazil.
Best video and tips i have come across. Thank you very much!!!
You are the best and you speak not from books but from your own experience something that is rare on you tube. Why don't you make more videos ?
Awesome!!!!...Absolutely thorough and easy to comprehend. Your experience and dedication shows and transmits understanding and ability to the watcher...Great Job.
Thanks for your great videos and information.
By watching your tutorials I have become comfortable working on all my guitars.
Thank you for this video. It's the best explanation of this process that I've seen.
Hey man, thanks so much for not just this video, but all the rest on your channel as well they really helped me out setting up my new stratocaster, and it sounds amazing now, thanks again.
Excellent job. Pointing out some of the nuances of intonation.
Great instruction! I will recommend this channel to everyone I know who plays guitar! Great work and teaching skills!
AWESOME video. Thank you.
You are totally right. After I intonated the saddles are in the pattern of 3's. Very cool, thanx.
Very useful information, thanks & congrats
Thank you so much for this video. Very in depth instructions that were incredibly helpful, Thank you again.
Thank you! I just watched this video on my smart TV and I had to come here to comment! You are an excellent, thorough presenter! Best of luck with the channel!
Fantastic! Thanks for passing this along. Very logical and well explained.
Brilliant video - learnt more from this than I have setting my own Strats up over the last decade! Thanks for all the help!
Excellent video learned a lot, thanks.
Very clear and helpful. Thanks