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Kristofer Dahl3rd May 2010Thanks for this topic and great explanations Marcus - nothing is more frustrating than playing with a poorly intonated guitar!
zen3rd May 2010This is an awesome addition to GMC.. a must see lesson. Thanks Marcus.. This was very well presented 
Marcus Siepen3rd May 2010Thanks guys. I also find this topic very important, when I started to play guitar I had no clue about intonation, I just put on any strings, messed with the string action and wondered, why my chords sounded so strange
Vasilije Vukmirovic3rd May 2010Very useful!
Lian Gerbino3rd May 2010this is really really awesome Marcus. I personally think that this is an important part of the road to become a great guitarist, you always can send your guitar to a luthier, but, to know your guitar in detail it's priceless! I think that's the way to get a real connexion with your instrument. thanks for this add!
Adrian Figallo3rd May 2010that's right lian, it is SUPER important to know your guitar upsidedown, priceless lesson marcus!
Crazy_Diamond3rd May 2010Thanks Marcus !!! I will adjust my intonation today ....
Marcus Siepen3rd May 2010Thanks guys, and I agree, we should really know our instruments
kaznie_NL3rd May 2010YEAH! Another Marcus Siepen hand work lesson 
I loved the pup-change lesson, so this will be cool as well. I love the humor in these lessons
djohnneay3rd May 2010This is very useful, because i think a lot of players don't know how to do this. I guess I will give it a try one of the days of this week
Wilska3rd May 2010Wow Marcus.. You're so clever coming up with lessons that nobody else here makes. This is essential to novice and intermediate players and I hope everyone checks this out. Thank you on behalf of everyone here Marcus
MigeZ3rd May 2010Great lesson Marcus! I have to check my guitars intonation now, though I think it should be 'right since I've tried to keep it adjusted.
Marcus Siepen3rd May 2010thanks guys :-)
Marek Rojewski4th May 2010No more paying for setting up my guitar! Poor luthier guy, he really seemed happy to have my schecter for few days from time to time:D
Great explanation, it worked!
Sergio Dorado4th May 2010This a very useful topic, and super well expalined. Thanks Marcus!
Zsolt Galambos5th May 2010Wow, this is a great topic! A lot of new guitarists have similar problems, this is a lesson that will help them a lot!
Marcus Siepen5th May 2010Why give your guitar to somebody else to set it up when you can also do it yourself ;-) This topic is very important to me, cause after all all of our playing abilities are useless if our guitars sound constantly out of tune, so everybody should be able to check things like this.
Ivan Milenkovic5th May 2010This lesson will leave lot of luthiers out of work, excellent explanations and lesson Marcus
Sinisa Cekic5th May 2010One of the 'must do' lessons,well done Marcus
Piotr Kaczor6th May 2010Brilliant, useful, extremely necessary!!
Marcus Siepen7th May 2010Thanks again guys
thefireball23rd May 2010I agree about the changing your strings one at a time, but what about cleaning the fretboard with lem oil? Don't you have to take them all off for that? Also, when adjusting the intonation, should I loosen the strings? I mean, isn't that string sliding in that groove not good for it? Anway, great lesson! Very informative.
Marcus Siepen20th June 2010I have to admit that I don't really like this oil thing for my fretboards, I tried it once and was not really happy, but yes, in theory, if you want to do this you should take off all your strings. A Tonepros locking system can be awesome here (in the moment I am thinking about getting it for some of my guitars). And yes, loosening the strings when adjusting the intonation is not bad at all.
Christophe23rd August 2010Very usefull lesson ! I always have intonation problems (due to my recent mistake which was changing all string at once) so I buy new strings ASAP and I'll check this out
thefireball13th November 2010I'll really appreciate this lesson. I came back for a refresher. getting my guitar into perfect intonation. 
Hi everybody, welcome to another lesson here on GMC.
Today I will show you how to check and adjust your guitars intonation. In case you have no idea what a guitars intonation is, in simple words a guitar with a bad intonation will never be in tune properly, so this is something we should definitely avoid.
Since a lot of things can mess with our guitars intonation (for example changing the string action, using a different gauge of stings, going to a completely different tuning etc.) You should check the intonation from time to time and adjust it in case something is wrong, and I hope this lesson can be a help for you ;-)
In case you have any question, feel free to contact me.
Cheers
Marcus
PS: The equipment used for this lesson is a Les Paul Slash Goldtop, a set of new strings, a Korg DT-1 tuner and a screwdriver ;-)
