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Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Jun 2 2008, 12:55 PM

"When you're playing with other musicians - also keyboard players - be sure that all of you are using the same tuning reference. The A note at 440Hz is not the only choice."

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jun 2 2008, 01:12 PM

THis is very true. Some classical musicians tend to tune to 442, and that led me into some strange harmonics while playing chords at rehearsals in a couple of situations. So it is important before the show and rehearsal to check the tuners reference and share it with other players, specially if you don't know their habits.

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Jun 2 2008, 02:03 PM

Very smart advice, it happened to me a lot of times to be out of tune with friends from the bend , because mine or their tuner was by mistake set to a different reference..

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Jun 2 2008, 02:12 PM

Heh, I remember seeing a clip of EHV playing against a keyboard tuned differently - apparently a keyboard tech's parting revenge was to set the digital output to 48k instead of 44.1 which threw it off around a semitone but not quite, and EVH was jumping hyard to play Jump

Posted by: Pablo Vazquez Jun 3 2008, 01:49 AM

yeah! Very smart advice!

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Jun 3 2008, 02:06 AM

QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ Jun 2 2008, 03:12 PM)

Heh, I remember seeing a clip of EHV playing against a keyboard tuned differently - apparently a keyboard tech's parting revenge was to set the digital output to 48k instead of 44.1 which threw it off around a semitone but not quite, and EVH was jumping hyard to play Jump

Posted by: Nemanja Filipovic Jun 3 2008, 04:32 AM

Yeah,great advice.Did you haw strange experiance on stage maybe,when guitar sound in one key and bass and keyboards in the other,and when you check the tune after the song is finish it is ok.
....or is it just me.

Posted by: Jerry Arcidiacono Jun 3 2008, 06:21 AM

QUOTE (Andrew Cockburn @ Jun 2 2008, 03:12 PM)

Heh, I remember seeing a clip of EHV playing against a keyboard tuned differently - apparently a keyboard tech's parting revenge was to set the digital output to 48k instead of 44.1 which threw it off around a semitone but not quite, and EVH was jumping hyard to play Jump

QUOTE (Nemanja Filipovic @ Jun 3 2008, 05:32 AM)

Yeah,great advice.Did you haw strange experiance on stage maybe,when guitar sound in one key and bass and keyboards in the other,and when you check the tune after the song is finish it is ok.
....or is it just me.

Posted by: Danilo Capezzuto Jun 3 2008, 07:59 PM

Useful tip, everyone should remember this!

Posted by: Ivan Milenkovic Jun 3 2008, 09:20 PM

QUOTE (Nemanja Filipovic @ Jun 3 2008, 05:32 AM)

Yeah,great advice.Did you haw strange experiance on stage maybe,when guitar sound in one key and bass and keyboards in the other,and when you check the tune after the song is finish it is ok.
....or is it just me.

Posted by: Juan M. Valero Jun 3 2008, 10:39 PM

hehe, my boss in the orchestra use to change pitch of the songs, so I need to pay a lot of attention !!! it's really hard when changes are more than 2 tones !!!!

Posted by: Marcus Siepen Jun 6 2008, 12:33 PM

this advice is vital if the tuning is not correct the result will always sound horrible.

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Jun 6 2008, 12:48 PM

Here's the clip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mjx_GjyXCs4

Sounds awful!!

Posted by: Bogdan Radovic Jun 6 2008, 03:21 PM

OMG that was terrible I wonder why they didn't stop after they noticed that..I mean there is no point in playing whole song like this Happens to best