I have been playing for years but never worked on the guitar until recently. There are always good tuners out there. Your instructions are simple and concise, this is the first time that I really got my neck straightened correctly and understood how and why. Thanks!!
Agreed. When these videos first came out I finally got the confidence to adjust my guitars on my own. I’ve come back to these videos many times since for new guitars/additional setups. Rina is the best! Hope she returns someday!
Thank you 🙏 I have attempted this before and never had satisfactory results. After watching your videos on set-up… I for the FIRST time was able to adjust my neck and intonate my guitar !!! Your video really helped me !!!! Thank you so much !!!! You ROCK !!!!
Really clear instructions. Much appreciation from Indiana. Particularly, your instruction to downtune the string on a sharp 12th fret I'm sure kept me from snapping my high E string!
Thank you very much! I broke way to many strings with my first guitar with that issue! And I've heard a horrible story about a violin player who lost her eye because of a snapping string, so I'm particularly careful when it comes to that.
Thank you for your clear instructions. This is the first time I have ever worked on the intonation, on any of my other guitars. Your video was extremely helpful.
I love the strat bring of your telecaster. I'm now good at setting up my intonation. However, doing it everytime you change your strings is frustrating.
Thank you for making this video. You know your stuff. I have worked on guitars for years, but I always like watching other people's videos videos and learning a few things.
i like the fact that your the only person who just outright says, if the string is higher at 12th, it must be lengthened, very simple, and intuitively it's what came to mind. but i guess it's so obvious that people omit that kind of stuff. also saying we don't need a stroboscope if we're just doing this for the first time.
...she is right that when setting intonation ... you lower the string tension a little and THEN lengthen the string length by moving the saddle BACKWARD. Moving a saddle barely forward is not too risky, but generally, the intonation setting requires one to lengthen the string a bit.
I have one question anyone can help???im trying to get on tune but every time I tune the guitar and than I check in 12 fret the tune is not the same and I keep trying but can make it to be tune on both sides
My dear .I have fender telecaster Corna California i love it too much and still new ,the action is a little bit high ,If i press on any of the string to touch the first and the last fret I find a gap in such a way that the same string did not touch the frets in between these two frets which means that there is a bow in the neck bar . how to rectify this problem to git rid of this problem and to lower the action. Your reply will be highly appreciated
It seems like your truss rod needs to be tightend. Please follow the procedure in this video: ua-cam.com/video/8zFzN4kJgm0/v-deo.html It should resolve your problem and if not, please don't hesitate to ask for further help! :) Here's my playlist for a complete guitar setup (truss rod, string action, intonation and pickup height): ua-cam.com/play/PL5Qk7-oMopWanR86ergCRxlZLycvf16Sv.html
Hello please help me how to fix the slight scratch dent below the allen screw on the bridge saddle floor surface; what to apply there and procedure please notice me thanks.
Usually, for fixing a dent you would make a cloth wet, put it on the dent and carefully heat it with an iron. However, I'm not sure if it works on a body that is finished. Another option is would be to carefully fill the dent with super glue in thin layers. Then wet sand it to 2000 grid and polish with polishing compond. I have never done it, though, so better do a little more research before trying any of this out! :|
Not exactly, because you want the strings to follow the radius of your fretboard. If you measure from the fretboard to the bottom edge of the string, it would be: E = .05“ A = .048“ D = .046“ G = .044“ B = .042“ E = .04“ for standard low and E = .05" A = .049" D = .048" G = .047" B = .046" E = .045" for my favourite Here's my walkthrough with a radius gauge which makes the process easier: ua-cam.com/video/5xeOa66XQGU/v-deo.html And welcome to the world of guitar playing! ^_^
My temperament as a player really enjoys the imperfections of equality. That’s how our music works and while True Temperament is an adaption of ‚Das Wohltemperierte Clavier‘ for guitar, it favours certain keys over others. It has to, because that’s the way any other temperament than equal temperament works. This brings a limitation when you play in a band (and this is Bandforge…xD) or even if you write songs since your singer will be the one you choose the key for. I think True Temperament is an interesting concept but not very usable ‚in the field‘. Jacob Collier may disagree, though. ;)
@@Bandforge your thinking of just intonation i think is what it´s called. True temperament frets are made to fix intonation errors for equal temperament, that straight frets have. You can see this for yourself as a regular guitar will (if correctly intonated) only have perfectly intonated 0, 12, 24 frets i think but maybe there are some exceptions. True temperament frets make your guitar sound more piano like, more perfect but that kind of takes away from the mojo of the guitar hehe I hope i was able to explain it well but otherwise you can always just google it. Personally i have never tried a guitar with tt-frets but i think it´s pretty interesting. I wonder if it works for different tunings too as i´ve recently switched to all fourths tuning in order to make melody guitar more intuitive
@COCO, imagine you take a note and add fifths to it until you’ve reached all 12 tones. If the fifths you take are perfectly in tune to each other, you end up with an octave that is not exactly the double of its root’s frequency. That error is called the Pythagorean comma. While this tuning should sound very good for melodies, once you use it for harmonics, it gets more difficult because the error of the octave is an issue. That’s the Pythagorean intonation. The just intonation is a tuning where the octave, fifth, forth and major third are exactly a 2:1, 3:2, 4:3 or 5:4 ratio to the root. Of course, the standard key for the note you initially formed your tonal system on will sound very good. But the more you use keys that are further away from the initial root, the more horrible it will be out of tune. This is where the temperaments come into play. A temperament is an approach to compensate that issue. Basically every temperament takes the error and splits it in one way or the other over the perfectly in tune intervals. The equal temperament is the only one that gives every interval the same amount of error and this is why it’s used on nearly any instrument in western music, nowadays. It doesn’t matter what key you play because it will always sound the same amount out of tune. True Temperament ‚is optimised for all the standard open and barre chord patterns‘. Sure these will sound better, but other keys will sound worse than with a standard fretted guitar. I think it’s an interesting concept and I surely would like to try one out, but I don’t think that it really solves a problem. About the other tunings on True Temperament guitars: The frets separate your string into the 12 different notes. If you alter the tuning of one string, that shouldn’t make a difference but if you alter the intervals between the strings to something else than standard tuning… I think that’s a problem, good question. Tuning the whole guitar up or down should be no issue in terms of intonation but I’d guess any open tuning, for instance, will not work too well. True Temperament doesn’t clarify this in their FAQ either which is a sign, that it might be a problem… ;P
Thank you for this video. i was always confused how to do this and you made it easy. Thank you again.
I have been playing for years but never worked on the guitar until recently. There are always good tuners out there. Your instructions are simple and concise, this is the first time that I really got my neck straightened correctly and understood how and why. Thanks!!
Thank you so much for your kind words!! :D This means a lot to me!
Agreed. When these videos first came out I finally got the confidence to adjust my guitars on my own. I’ve come back to these videos many times since for new guitars/additional setups. Rina is the best! Hope she returns someday!
Thank you 🙏 I have attempted this before and never had satisfactory results. After watching your videos on set-up… I for the FIRST time was able to adjust my neck and intonate my guitar !!! Your video really helped me !!!! Thank you so much !!!! You ROCK !!!!
Really clear instructions. Much appreciation from Indiana. Particularly, your instruction to downtune the string on a sharp 12th fret I'm sure kept me from snapping my high E string!
Thank you very much! I broke way to many strings with my first guitar with that issue! And I've heard a horrible story about a violin player who lost her eye because of a snapping string, so I'm particularly careful when it comes to that.
Thank you for your clear instructions. This is the first time I have ever worked on the intonation, on any of my other guitars. Your video was extremely helpful.
I love the strat bring of your telecaster. I'm now good at setting up my intonation. However, doing it everytime you change your strings is frustrating.
Thank you for making this video. You know your stuff. I have worked on guitars for years, but I always like watching other people's videos videos and learning a few things.
i like the fact that your the only person who just outright says, if the string is higher at 12th, it must be lengthened, very simple, and intuitively it's what came to mind. but i guess it's so obvious that people omit that kind of stuff. also saying we don't need a stroboscope if we're just doing this for the first time.
I have a poly tune they are brilliant a tool that is a must, great tutorial Rina
Thank you very much, Mal!
Big Help.THANX✌️😀
Thank you very much, Helped a ton :D
You're very welcome! :D
...she is right that when setting intonation ... you lower the string tension a little and THEN lengthen the string length by moving the saddle BACKWARD. Moving a saddle barely forward is not too risky, but generally, the intonation setting requires one to lengthen the string a bit.
thank you so much
I have one question anyone can help???im trying to get on tune but every time I tune the guitar and than I check in 12 fret the tune is not the same and I keep trying but can make it to be tune on both sides
My dear .I have fender telecaster Corna California i love it too much and still new ,the action is a little bit high ,If i press on any of the string to touch the first and the last fret I find a gap in such a way that the same string did not touch the frets in between these two frets which means that there is a bow in the neck bar . how to rectify this problem to git rid of this problem and to lower the action. Your reply will be highly appreciated
It seems like your truss rod needs to be tightend. Please follow the procedure in this video: ua-cam.com/video/8zFzN4kJgm0/v-deo.html It should resolve your problem and if not, please don't hesitate to ask for further help! :)
Here's my playlist for a complete guitar setup (truss rod, string action, intonation and pickup height): ua-cam.com/play/PL5Qk7-oMopWanR86ergCRxlZLycvf16Sv.html
Hello please help me how to fix the slight scratch dent below the allen screw on the bridge saddle floor surface; what to apply there and procedure please notice me thanks.
Usually, for fixing a dent you would make a cloth wet, put it on the dent and carefully heat it with an iron. However, I'm not sure if it works on a body that is finished. Another option is would be to carefully fill the dent with super glue in thin layers. Then wet sand it to 2000 grid and polish with polishing compond. I have never done it, though, so better do a little more research before trying any of this out! :|
Please advise where I can download your string height pattern
You can find it here: bandforge.net/downloads-0
Miss can you tell the strings height for lower action? Any help apreciate :-)
Sure thing! Low E string: .05“
High E string: .04“
My personal favourite for the Squier Tele: Low E string: .05“
High E string: .045“
-Mrs Rina ;)
So for AD follow the low and GB follow the high, is that correct?
Btw i just startred playing electric guitar, :"), thanks in advance
Not exactly, because you want the strings to follow the radius of your fretboard. If you measure from the fretboard to the bottom edge of the string, it would be:
E = .05“ A = .048“ D = .046“ G = .044“ B = .042“ E = .04“ for standard low and
E = .05" A = .049" D = .048" G = .047" B = .046" E = .045" for my favourite
Here's my walkthrough with a radius gauge which makes the process easier: ua-cam.com/video/5xeOa66XQGU/v-deo.html
And welcome to the world of guitar playing! ^_^
@@Bandforge thank you so much Mrs rina, you're very kind, i will install these formulas into my guitar, thanks ;-)
@@ZERO-lu7jz You're welcome! ^^
I’ve got such a crush on her.
Accuracy…….
intonation on guitar is a lie unless it has true temperament frets hehe
My temperament as a player really enjoys the imperfections of equality. That’s how our music works and while True Temperament is an adaption of ‚Das Wohltemperierte Clavier‘ for guitar, it favours certain keys over others. It has to, because that’s the way any other temperament than equal temperament works. This brings a limitation when you play in a band (and this is Bandforge…xD) or even if you write songs since your singer will be the one you choose the key for. I think True Temperament is an interesting concept but not very usable ‚in the field‘. Jacob Collier may disagree, though. ;)
@@Bandforge your thinking of just intonation i think is what it´s called. True temperament frets are made to fix intonation errors for equal temperament, that straight frets have. You can see this for yourself as a regular guitar will (if correctly intonated) only have perfectly intonated 0, 12, 24 frets i think but maybe there are some exceptions. True temperament frets make your guitar sound more piano like, more perfect but that kind of takes away from the mojo of the guitar hehe
I hope i was able to explain it well but otherwise you can always just google it. Personally i have never tried a guitar with tt-frets but i think it´s pretty interesting. I wonder if it works for different tunings too as i´ve recently switched to all fourths tuning in order to make melody guitar more intuitive
@COCO, imagine you take a note and add fifths to it until you’ve reached all 12 tones. If the fifths you take are perfectly in tune to each other, you end up with an octave that is not exactly the double of its root’s frequency. That error is called the Pythagorean comma. While this tuning should sound very good for melodies, once you use it for harmonics, it gets more difficult because the error of the octave is an issue. That’s the Pythagorean intonation.
The just intonation is a tuning where the octave, fifth, forth and major third are exactly a 2:1, 3:2, 4:3 or 5:4 ratio to the root. Of course, the standard key for the note you initially formed your tonal system on will sound very good. But the more you use keys that are further away from the initial root, the more horrible it will be out of tune.
This is where the temperaments come into play. A temperament is an approach to compensate that issue. Basically every temperament takes the error and splits it in one way or the other over the perfectly in tune intervals. The equal temperament is the only one that gives every interval the same amount of error and this is why it’s used on nearly any instrument in western music, nowadays. It doesn’t matter what key you play because it will always sound the same amount out of tune. True Temperament ‚is optimised for all the standard open and barre chord patterns‘. Sure these will sound better, but other keys will sound worse than with a standard fretted guitar. I think it’s an interesting concept and I surely would like to try one out, but I don’t think that it really solves a problem.
About the other tunings on True Temperament guitars: The frets separate your string into the 12 different notes. If you alter the tuning of one string, that shouldn’t make a difference but if you alter the intervals between the strings to something else than standard tuning… I think that’s a problem, good question. Tuning the whole guitar up or down should be no issue in terms of intonation but I’d guess any open tuning, for instance, will not work too well. True Temperament doesn’t clarify this in their FAQ either which is a sign, that it might be a problem… ;P
@@Bandforge I was under the impression that true temperament frets are equally tempered frets without intonation errors but maybe i was mistaken
Please learn how to say gauge…..