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Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:54 am
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Since the "Tone Wood Snobery" seems to have dwindled, what about the "Intonation Freaks". That's right I'm talking about all you maniacs that obsess over your guitars intonation!

Yes it needs to be done well.
No it doesn't need to be perfect.

I will even go so far as to suggest that if your guitars intonation makes that great a difference in your playing, then perhaps you need to spend more time in the woodshed.

Now if you're intonation obsessed because your just OCD then I forgive you. :D


The way I think about intonation, its either correct or incorrect. Sort of like "in tune" or "out of tune", right?


There's also a few guys out there who seem to never think their guitar is properly tuned.

I suppose the difference is in degree. I know guys who's guitars intonation sounds fine and even shows it's good on a tuner. However, they insist on tweaking, fine tuning, changing saddles, and adjusting intonation "ad nauseam". And then they run their guitar through numerous effects pedals to where it doesn't truly matter.

If you are playing totally clean I suppose perfect intonation makes a difference, especially if your doing alot of picking, or using alot of harmonics. But if you heavily process the signal and then just hammer out overdriven, distorted power chords I think it's ridiculous to obsess.

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hmm budget guitars , i have a 89 mij strat which i've owned for 15 years or so , i didn't pay a lot for it , a few weeks ago i tried snowys dave gilmour strat , not a bit of difference apart from that wee switch , oh and the price 8) i also hve an epi lp i picked up a few weeks ago and compared it to snowys gibby lp agian not a bit of difference apart from the name and the price , what i might be a wee bit snoby about is my amps , i've used marshall heads and 4x12 cabs for 20 odd years , currently using my old jcm 800 with a roost 2x12 , not gigging so it a nice size for in the house and i get the sound i love ,
i think if most people got themselves a decent amp they would be a lot happier with thier sound instead of blaming the budget guitar they bought , just my thoughts :D and i only realy use my old wah peddal so i don't really bother with effects but it is old and from what i've heard of the ne ones it's a bloody lot better :)
Yep Budget guitars!!!! I have some and some that are not I like them all but can tell the difference in the build. I all so have some EPI's, my one Epi. LP cost me 799.00 many years ago and its build quality differs from the one that cost me 199.00 I like them both but I can see the better made quality and feel it. I have MIM Strats and Teles and MIA's same thing most cases. Has nothing to do with snob I still like them all or I would not have bought them.

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cvilleira wrote:
alanssaab wrote:
hmm budget guitars , i have a 89 mij strat which i've owned for 15 years or so , i didn't pay a lot for it , a few weeks ago i tried snowys dave gilmour strat , not a bit of difference apart from that wee switch , oh and the price 8) i also hve an epi lp i picked up a few weeks ago and compared it to snowys gibby lp agian not a bit of difference apart from the name and the price , what i might be a wee bit snoby about is my amps , i've used marshall heads and 4x12 cabs for 20 odd years , currently using my old jcm 800 with a roost 2x12 , not gigging so it a nice size for in the house and i get the sound i love ,
i think if most people got themselves a decent amp they would be a lot happier with thier sound instead of blaming the budget guitar they bought , just my thoughts :D and i only realy use my old wah peddal so i don't really bother with effects but it is old and from what i've heard of the ne ones it's a bloody lot better :)
Yep Budget guitars!!!! I have some and some that are not I like them all but can tell the difference in the build. I all so have some EPI's, my one Epi. LP cost me 799.00 many years ago and its build quality differs from the one that cost me 199.00 I like them both but I can see the better made quality and feel it. I have MIM Strats and Teles and MIA's same thing most cases. Has nothing to do with snob I still like them all or I would not have bought them.


cvilleira, Love is a Made In Mexico Precision Bass and there is a remarkable difference I absolutely like to play other models and then play love but now that I think about it , it is the strings, I use a much heavier gauge then most are strung with and maybe the maple rosewood neck helps a little.

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