Boss TU-2 chromatic tuner....

[jhale667]

Good reason to have your intonation correctly set, like me...

Check against a tuner and get back to us on that. And don't say you "don't need to". Your ears aren't infallible.

[vandeleur]

Good reason to have your intonation correctly set, like me...

That isn't the worst problem .
It's temperature , empty room when you sound check full room when you go on .
You have done gigs in bars you know they think instruments are exempt from the laws of physics so open doors to cool the room or worse don't open doors .
Tuners don't question someone's talent ... It's physics

[Coyote]

Check against a tuner and get back to us on that. And don't say you "don't need to". Your ears aren't infallible.

But they are relative, and that can be a bitch at times...

For example, if I tune up my guitar using a tuner, I still have to mess with the E, B & G strings. 'Cause chords won't sound "in tune" (clean or distorted), unless I tune the skinny strings using my ears.
And yes, a tech has done the intonation on each one. With a strobe tuner.

Which brings up a logical question: What is the universal approach for adjusting intonation?

[ELVIS]

But they are relative, and that can be a bitch at times...

For example, if I tune up my guitar using a tuner, I still have to mess with the E, B & G strings. 'Cause chords won't sound "in tune" (clean or distorted), unless I tune the skinny strings using my ears.
And yes, a tech has done the intonation on each one. With a strobe tuner.

Which brings up a logical question: What is the universal approach for adjusting intonation?

Tuning each open string to it's 12th fret harmonic...

And your intonation is still off...

The strobe tuner didn't help...

[jhale667]

Tuning each open string to it's 12th fret harmonic...

And your intonation is still off...

The strobe tuner didn't help...

Uh, you're not quite done. The fretted note at the 12th fret also has to match.

[ashstralia]

ok, settle down kids.

yes, the boss pedal, by it's very name, informs you of it's legendary status.

BOSS.

but here in sunny oz, we often play in daylight, or daylight becoming dusk.
no floor tuner is readable in broad sunlight. the korg pitchclip™(available at your local retailer, the mom and pop one, if you please) is the answer to these woes, friends.

and it works on all guitars, including that beautiful multi $$k handmade nylon string that we expect you, as a failed guitarist, to own.

re intonation; this is my speciality.
i set mine slightly flat to compensate for the big frets and lots of pressure. remember those fancy feiten/gambale/vai tuning systems ELVIS?

i suspect that they went out of business because they dint make 'freebird' sound any better.

[vandeleur]

thus speaks the wizard of Oz , but you lost me at sunlight

[ashstralia]

it's fucking winter here vandy. the worst 8 weeks of the year!

at night it often drops below 10℃

[ashstralia]

thus speaks the wizard of Oz , but you lost me at sunlight

and i never mentioned sunlight.

here, it's a brand of soap.

[ashstralia]

oops! so i did.

[ELVIS]

i set mine slightly flat to compensate for the big frets and lots of pressure.

That's string height, not intonation...

[ELVIS]

The fretted note at the 12th fret also has to match.

Maybe you really don't understand the process as much as you think you do......

[ashstralia]

yeah, what would we know?

[ashstralia]

That's string height, not intonation...

erm, dude, i always finish off a floyd set up by adjusting the spring claw all locked up which i've already gauged to a pre determined amount.

you're a bit out of your depth here.

[ELVIS]

Bullshit, I know exactly how it works...