Guitar stuff.
Restrung my guitar the other night. Was half expecting the intonation to go completely kafluey.
Quick lesson: Guitars are funny things; if you put a different guage of strings on a guitar, or even if it's the same guage by a different company the change of tension on the neck can pull it out of tune.
IE the frets won't line up with where the actual notes should be. The intonation, the space between the notes, will be a tiny bit off. Just enough that the guitar will sound ever so slightly wrong even to untrained ears (the musical equivalent to an outfit featuring two types of pinstripe: you know it's wrong even if you can't explain why).
Crazy temperature changes and the like will play havoc with guitar necks as well.
Bear in mind that my guitar hasn't been set up in nearly five years, and that was back in Australia. Brisbane weather is not London weather. In February it was cold enough in my room that I would wake up and see my breath. At the time my guitar was under my bed.
But no, I changed all the strings, tuned it up then checked the intonation with a digital tuner, all the way up the neck. It came in pretty much dead on.
The guitar in question is an LTD H-100, a midrange Korean made lump of wood designed to be played in standard E but bastardised into being a C# instrument. For it to hold up this well for this long is kinda impressive.
LTD's: they're cheap, they look silly and they don't sound the best. But dammit, they work.
Quick lesson: Guitars are funny things; if you put a different guage of strings on a guitar, or even if it's the same guage by a different company the change of tension on the neck can pull it out of tune.
IE the frets won't line up with where the actual notes should be. The intonation, the space between the notes, will be a tiny bit off. Just enough that the guitar will sound ever so slightly wrong even to untrained ears (the musical equivalent to an outfit featuring two types of pinstripe: you know it's wrong even if you can't explain why).
Crazy temperature changes and the like will play havoc with guitar necks as well.
Bear in mind that my guitar hasn't been set up in nearly five years, and that was back in Australia. Brisbane weather is not London weather. In February it was cold enough in my room that I would wake up and see my breath. At the time my guitar was under my bed.
But no, I changed all the strings, tuned it up then checked the intonation with a digital tuner, all the way up the neck. It came in pretty much dead on.
The guitar in question is an LTD H-100, a midrange Korean made lump of wood designed to be played in standard E but bastardised into being a C# instrument. For it to hold up this well for this long is kinda impressive.
LTD's: they're cheap, they look silly and they don't sound the best. But dammit, they work.