Chapter 101: Intonation - The Final Touch For Perfect Tuning! — Transcript

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1. 0:05Okay, we are coming in on the end of the
2. 0:09setup process. This thing is just about
3. 0:12ready to play. Now, the last thing we
4. 0:14need to deal with is intonation. And
5. 0:16we've talked a lot about intonation kind
6. 0:20of in vague terms. And now is really
7. 0:24where the rubber meets the road on
8. 0:25intonation. And this tool, before I get
9. 0:28any further, is just the end of the uh D
10. 0:34string. So, I just clipped this off the
11. 0:36end of the D, folded it over, and I'm
12. 0:39going to use that under the strings on
13. 0:42the saddle to determine where my string
14. 0:45break point needs to be to get my
15. 0:47intonation correct. So, I'm going to
16. 0:50lift this up.
17. 0:52Pull that back.
18. 0:56Now I have a very precise break point.
19. 1:00Okay, now I have my wire inserted here
20. 1:04for a very clean break point. And it is
21. 1:08really right off the front of the
22. 1:11saddle. It is not very far in there at
23. 1:13all. Now, what I'm going to do is play
24. 1:16the harmonic. And I want to see that
25. 1:18harmonic perfectly in tune. And then I
26. 1:21am going to play the fredded note. And
27. 1:25if that freted note is sharp or flat
28. 1:28will determine what happens here. If
29. 1:31that freted note, and remember once we
30. 1:34fret it, we actually make that string
31. 1:36longer because we change the angle from
32. 1:39here to our fret. And that's what the
33. 1:42intonation is about is compensating for
34. 1:46that longer string with a a fredded
35. 1:49note. If that freted note is sharp, what
36. 1:53we want to do is make this longer and
37. 1:58move this towards the front of the
38. 2:01bridge to make it longer and flatten out
39. 2:04that note. If this is flat, we actually
40. 2:07want to make it shorter
41. 2:10going this way to sharpen that note just
42. 2:14a little bit. Now I'll play the harmonic
43. 2:21and the fredded
44. 2:27and that is right there. Okay, now that
45. 2:31was really right at the front of the
46. 2:33saddle. So I am not going to change
47. 2:36anything at all there. I am just going
48. 2:38to set that break point right there at
49. 2:41the front. Now that's the B string
50. 2:45playing the harmonic
51. 2:48and freted.
52. 2:51Leave that exactly where it is. I'm not
53. 2:53changing that. Make a note of where that
54. 2:56is. Right there. Okay. Move it on to the
55. 3:01G.
56. 3:06Perfect.
57. 3:08Now harmonic
58. 3:12fredded.
59. 3:18[music]
60. 3:21So, I've got to move that G
61. 3:24right back,
62. 3:30right to the very front of the saddle.
63. 3:40All right. So, the G is going to go
64. 3:42right on the front, very, very, very
65. 3:44front of the saddle.
66. 3:47D
67. 3:49harmonic [music]
68. 3:56and fredded.
69. 3:58[music]
70. 4:00Perfect. Not going to touch that.
71. 4:03I hope you're noticing a little bit of a
72. 4:05theme here in that most of these notes
73. 4:08are breaking really right at the front
74. 4:10of this saddle.
75. 4:18>> [music]
76. 4:20>> Yeah, perfect.
77. 4:28Low E harmonic
78. 4:37fredded.
79. 4:41Yep. Okay,
80. 4:43that one is just a little bit further
81. 4:45forward, maybe almost the middle of the
82. 4:48saddle.
83. 4:51So, now I have my lines that I need to
84. 4:54carve my brake points into.
85. 4:58So, as you can see, they move around
86. 5:00just a little bit, but nothing like
87. 5:02you'd see in a pre-made saddle. So, now
88. 5:05I need to loosen my strings up again,
89. 5:07pull this out, and shape it.
90. 5:13Okay. Now, I'm going to take this and I
91. 5:17am going to file
92. 5:19right up to those lines and try and
93. 5:23round off the back a little bit so I can
94. 5:25still make some string contact as it
95. 5:27rolls over. But I want that break point
96. 5:29on the front of this to be pretty sharp.
97. 5:34really want to have that front part as
98. 5:35accurate as possible and the back roll
99. 5:37off so there's a little less string
100. 5:39tension on a particular point.
101. 5:54Now, this this brake angle doesn't need
102. 5:57to be sharp, but it does need to be
103. 6:00pretty accurate.
104. 6:06Now I've gotten the back and forth,
105. 6:09gotten those dialed in. Now I'm just
106. 6:12going to take some sandpaper to this,
107. 6:14polish it up a little bit. Just going to
108. 6:17take 320.
109. 6:20That 320 isn't going to do much to
110. 6:22change the profile of it. It's just
111. 6:23going to take out the rough file marks.
112. 6:33That's nice and smooth.
113. 6:35Now, this is going to go back in.
114. 6:44All right, I double checked the
115. 6:46intonation across the strings. We are
116. 6:50all good. I'm happy with the way things
117. 6:52are at. Um, I'll let this sit for
118. 6:55another week, uh, maybe two weeks, kind
119. 6:59of settle in to, uh, let it know that it
120. 7:03is going to be a guitar, and then I'll
121. 7:06take another look at the setup, and then
122. 7:08probably ship it out. So,
123. 7:12um, lots of final thoughts here, but as
124. 7:14far as intonation and setup goes, uh,
125. 7:17hopefully you guys have followed along
126. 7:18and gotten exactly what you needed out
127. 7:20of it. Um, so I'll close up on setup on
128. 7:25that note and I will catch you in the
129. 7:28next video.
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