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Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
https://www.jamestaylor.com/guitar/lesson-five-bonus-video/
The sweetened tunings are presets, and are very accurate.
http://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/137624/fs-peterson-stomp-classic-tuner-price-drop#latest
In a interview on YTube, Ian Hunter discusses how Mick Ronson's Les Paul was so out of tune all the time he would be retunnig mid-song and that Mick Ralphs developed a technique to play everything flat to compensate for his playing style's effect on his guitars.
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Anyway, the offsets for the Sweetened Tunings are:
It's been really useful in getting the ES125, with its floating bridge, set up with accurate intonation. I'd returned the bridge to its original wooden one but the Peterson made me realise I was never going to get it accurately set up without returning it to the metal adjustable bridge unit it arrived with.
That said, even though the intonation may have been out with the wooden bridge saddles, the guitar always sounded sweet and in tune right up to the 12th fret even though it was some way out from correct intonation.
e -3
B -6
G -4
D -8
A -10
E -12
At those very fine adjustments it does pay to try to damp all the other strings while tuning. Although he does not mention it, you can see James doing that later in the video.
I had been out of the room before we ran through one song. I thought it went fairly well until the singer said he agreed that it worked better in B. The lads had played the song in B. Problem was that I played it in the usual key, B flat. Amazingly nobody noticed or were aware that I had everything 'wrong'!
We had a good laugh about it and ran through the song again with all of us playing in the key of B. Just shows what you can get away with in a band situation...
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The other thing you find out is just how easy it is to play sharp or flat depending on how hard you press or how you approach the string when you press down.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.