432Hz... Let's Get It On...

[sonidero]

Lil bit lower then norm, sounds good to me...

Who else likes it and why???

Hit me with all the Maths and Conspiracies and Mehness...

[Chankgeez]

jwar tunes A to whatever frequency excites the boner chakra.

[Spook Strickland]

432 is the only tuning I use now. I've tested it out on myself and friends and family with blind tests, almost everyone digs the 432 better.

[resincum]

I've tested it out on myself and friends and family with blind tests, almost everyone digs the 432 better.

indeed! I thought it was a load of bullshit initially. prince 'hosted' a Q&A on facebook and the only question he responded to was one about the 'golden tuning'. the article he linked was some hippy ass bullshit, but it's a pretty interesting concept once you past the mumbo jumbo. I'd love to get a guitar made for the tuning, like with the proper spacing between frets and shit. as I understand now, there's really no point to tuning your A to 432 unless all you do is open strum IMO. need that fibonacci fretboard huhuhu

[blakestree]

You mean this?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsSjh5TTqI[/youtube]

[sonidero]

Guyzzz... Most tuners are fixed at A being 440Hz but that has been something that just adjusted up and down over the millennia...

If you have a digital tuner of recent make you should be able to adjust the tuning in hz...

Since I generally Love Lower Toanzzz I just wanted to talk about who else and why...

[lumena]

There is alot of stuff about 432 out there but if you take a deeper look it comes from the Baroque era. The frequency that orchestras used to tune to then was about 432 instead of the 440 we standardized on in the modern era. I have a friend who is a concert master and he says that his orchestra currently tunes to 443 and sometimes higher for certain pieces.

Just remember its only make believe and trendy wendies.

Hendrix tuned his guitar to Eb so that would make his A in that tuning about 415

Thinking is only as free as your mind.

[tremolo3]

[sonidero]

Just remember its only make believe and trendy wendies.

Truer Words and all...

There are many applications of the Sounds we produce and hear everyday and they effect us in one way or always...

Sundays are my Best Soundayzzz...

[rustywire]

I've been tuning my stringed instruments to A=432 (108hz for guitar) for several years now. It's my standard tuning.
My technique benefits from it, I have old skeletal injuries in my fretting hand (index finger & thumb) that make playing...more challenging to say the least.
Tuning down a little bit makes life easier, but it's really about the sound.
There's a lot of polarizing bullshit and misinformation out there, I'm not really interested in taking sides.
I prefer the way it sounds (a little warmer) with my vintage single coils and bright-leaning amps.
Fretless Jazz Bass makes the biggest difference in sound and feel. There's just a bit more...roundness to notes.
Fretted instruments make less of a difference unless you're just playing open strings...but it still changes the subtle complexities of chords.
It affects the way notes sum and their harmonic content differently than 440.
Put it up on an oscilloscope if you have that option...and if you're into numerology, plot out the frequency values across the 5 usable guitar octaves and the pythagorean patterns should jump out at you.
Speaking of jump out at you...my 62 year old Casino in particular LOVES the way open G resonates at 192hz. It leaps off the body even before plugging in

[kbit]

Drones tuned by ear, no fucks to give

[BoatRich]

Drones tuned by ear, no fucks to give

I do this too, mostly because my tuner won't track a bunch of oscillators at once

[D.o.S.]

436.05, please.

[tuj]

Eb tuning is pretty common in the guitar world for a little bit of extra low-end. I know this was done by Hendrix, SRV, Rivers Cuomo, and countless others. Probably helps avoid the natural tendencies of the G-string at A=440 to be sharp.

Baroque music standardizes A=415hz.

Interestingly, most orchestras tune to A=442hz (NY and Boston) or A=443hz (most of Europe).

ISO tried to standardize at A=439hz but this is a prime number and apparently hard to reproduce in labs.

[goroth]

ISO tried to standardize at A=439hz but this is a prime number and apparently hard to reproduce in labs.