![]() ![]() If you still want to use your external tuner with your Helix there are a few ways to hook it up after your signal path. Thanks to Line 6's design considerations, I taught the Helix how to do the same thing my Peterson does and now I can omit the external stompbox from my set up! Then I changed individual string offsets on the Helix so they would appear in tune on its display. This text was taken from the Helix Manual: "String offsets calibrate the tuner so that these slightly out-of-tune pitches appear as in tune."Īfter reading that I cabled up so both tuners would show my string pitch and tuned up using the Peterson. The Helix tuner does not have sweetened tunings but it does allow you to offset each string by a specified amount. Then I read the Helix manual from front to back. Where does the line 6 helix come into this? I love this device but was disappointed that I would still need to use my Peterson tuner when I had this big beautiful all-in-one pedalboard with a brilliant display and a great looking tuner mode. Peterson figured out a useful way to combat this heinous aural crime so I no longer need to do micro-bends to correct the issue! When I set the Peterson tuner for sweetened guitar, it takes into account the imperfections in the longstanding design of guitars and shows me the offending strings are in tune when they are really just a smidgen out of tune. While this has made a huge difference in how much I enjoy playing my guitars it still did not completely correct the dissonance issues for me because I always rely on tuners telling me when the string is perfectly in pitch. I believe this is because of inherent imperfections in the way fretted guitar design was standardized way back when but that's another story right?ĭespite my lifelong passion for guitar I (inexplicably) never knew about having guitars set up properly until about 10 years ago. This dissonance can happen because it's a poorly built guitar or has not been set up correctly but it still happens on a quality guitar with a perfect setup. I'd learned to work around it by doing a micro-bend on one string or the other to bring the chord into pitch. ![]() I also noticed the dissonance was always related to the inclusion of the G or B strings. This helps me because all my life I've noticed that even if I tune my guitar to perfect pitch on all 6 strings, some chords still ring with dissonance. I have been using a Peterson Strobo Stomp tuner for a couple years and it is my favorite because of its "Sweetened Tuning" setting for guitar. I would add: I am not mechanically or technically minded, this is all based on my casual observations the past 40 years and while I have been playing a long time, I am only a bedroom rockstar who loves gear. I just bought the Helix and wanted to share this since some people who loved their Peterson may find it useful. I used a Peterson Strobe tuner as a band director.I searched for other similar topics but the ones I found focused on why people do or don't like the Helix onboard tuner so I didn't think it was appropriate to post this in line with them. Peterson Tuners have a sweetened tuning setting that compensates for you. Each half step being divided into 100 equal parts. A cent is one one-hundredth of a half step. For this to work for those of you playing at home, you’d need a tuner that displays cents. James Taylor has figured out how to tune each string slightly flat each by a particular number of cents. I am not usually happy with mu guitar sound by tuning my guitar with a digital tuner and end up messing with the B, E and e and then on and on it goes. He has figured out a system of relative tuning, sweetened tuning or tempered tuning to make a guitar “sound” in tune. One video in particular James Taylor’s YouTube channel, he discusses tuning the guitar slightly flat to compensate for fretting notes and better runing across different keys. And then…I found this instructional video by James Taylor on Sweetened Tunings or Tempered Tunings. The next day or so I went to his website and watched his instructional videos. Kathy and I went to hear James Taylor this summer at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion. ![]()
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