Tuning an electric guitar, as opposed to an acoustic one, is a more subtle and time-consuming procedure. To achieve flawless performance from the instrument, in addition to adjusting the sound itself, you need to adjust the scale, the height of the strings, adjust the neck deflection and the distance from the strings to the pickups.
Instructions
Step 1
Tune the sound of an electric guitar using the online tuner or special programs: Pitch Perfect Tuner, Gutar pro, Tune It !, AP Guitar Tuner, Guitar Rig, GCH-Guitar Tuner. Trust your ear for music to tune it yourself.
Step 2
Tune your guitar to standard tuning by starting by adjusting the first string to match the E on the piano or the first string on another already tuned guitar. In unison with the open first string, the second string should sound, clamped on the 5th fret. The sound of the third string, clamped at the fourth fret, must match the sound of the second open string. The fourth, fifth, and sixth strings, when clamped at the 5th fret, should, respectively, sound in unison with the third, fourth, and fifth open.
Step 3
Tune the scale of your electric guitar using the tuner. Rotate the screws located on the bridge, adjust the guitar so that the string at the twelfth fret sounds an octave higher than the open string. Use the harmonics to tune the scale by ear. Increase the scale if the note at the twelfth fret is higher than the note on the open string. In the opposite situation, a decrease in the scale is required.
Step 4
Adjust the neck of your guitar by holding the 6th string at the first and last frets. Check that the distance from the eighth fret to the string is 0.2-0.3 mm. Make sure the distance from the string to the top surface of the seventeenth fret is 1.6 - 2.4 mm. on strings from first to third and 2 - 2, 8 mm. on strings 4 through 6.
Step 5
Rotate the screws holding the cartridge to the body to adjust the distance from the pickups to the strings. The distance from the pickup to thick strings should be greater than the same distance from thin strings. If the pickup is too close, it will hit the strings, and if it is too far, the sound will be quiet.
