7 Dumb Mistakes You're Making When Tracking Guitars

[@hardcoremusicstudio]

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[@SOYUSE]

Light gauge is not a problem, actually, the problem is bad technique, because virtuosos like Jason Richardson and Sergey Golovin play really light gauges, but they just have good control. I understand, you can't fix technique at the moment, but setting a heavier gauge is just a quick decision for mix engineer, not for guitarist. Guitarists need to work on their technique with any gauge. Also, this is critical for extra low tunings, because heavier gauges sound more dull, and you need to use as light gauge as you can. P.S. 11-52 for standard tuning - it's really an inadequate gauge (25.5"), like 60 for a drop C as well.

[@k13331j]

bad technique and guitarists that aren't ready to record. If i had to record the guitar players in the bands that i see on a local level, I would have an evertune guitar in every string count and scale length available.

[@corydhmiller]

This is 100% the culprit. I've slowly reduced my string gauges over the last 20 years and play and record pretty light, 9s and 10s. these days. The issue Jordan's talking about though has more to do with both an amateur-level of technique or just players who are more used to live settings where these issues are more forgiving. Popping heavier gauge strings on don't magically fix all of these problems, though I admit if you're trying to use 9s on a standard-setup guitar but dropped down to B, you're going to have a bad time. Either way, 11-52 feels pretty overkill in a lot of ways, but it will ultimately depend on the style of music and tone you're looking for.

[@michaelcurnutt]

I agree 100%, I know many session players using light gauges without any issues. Rick Beato had an episode testing this for those interested.

[@Aleksisguitar]

Alternatives to changing to WAY too thick strings as suggested here: - yes, tune and intonate your guitar - learn to play in tune. Tuning isn't a separate thing to playing guitar, playing guitar in tune is a skill. - Record yourself, listen back, fine tune. - Fret closer to the very root of the fret, not in between two frets. - Don't overpressure with left hand - hold the pick firmly but not too firmly - remember to breathe when you downpick/tremolo pick fast - learn and know your songs and be able to play them tight and perform. Practice helps overcome anxiety and the fear of that R-light (a cause of frantic, out-of-control thus out-of-tune-playing) Bonus tip: use a cloth and cleaning spray and wipe UNDER the strings as well! Obviously you don't have this problem with new strings. - Bonus tip 2: once you can play, raise your action juuust a bit for a better, less buzzy tone. Play consistently with the tuning and gauge you've chosen. The string gauge recommendations presented here are a recipe to tendon damage and injuries, unless playing super short scale instruments. At least take your time with thicker strings before bending to minor thirds! Also, lighter strings have a bigger, thicker low end, great for chugs 🤘🤘🎸🎸 Obviously yeah, don't use 08-42s in drop B, I thought this was common sense 😂 then again I'm not an experienced engineer who has seen it all like Jordan. Great tips here, thanks for the awesome video!

[@visionswords5477]

The fact that he's making this vide but not talking about a string tension calculator is wild. If you're doing drop tune, playing baritone, or really doing anything but playing a Fender in E standard, you need to figure out what the best string tension is for your guitar's scale length.

[@kanaziras]

11s on 25,5 inch scale in E standard would kill your fingers and probably fu*k up the neck in the long term. Especially if you do a lot of bends, wide vibratos etc... Yngwie is playing 8s in D# and he has no problem with intonation, Paul Gilbert is recently playing 8,5s, most prog-heavy guys are using 10s in D, or 9s in E and they have no problems with "tuning". It's about guitar setup and how skillful the guitarist is! If a guitarist can't play well at least 30 seconds of a song he wrote (or his band), then he should not be recording but practicing...

[@Fernando-ry5qt]

I'd agree but.... Yngwie's intonation is garbage tbh..... have you seen him live? no two notes sound the same ever when he performs, it is not terribly bad but, light weight + scalloped fretboard + REALLY high speed = bad intonation, it is almost imposible to perform in tune with those elements in place.

[@kanaziras]

@Fernando-ry5qt no, I have not seen him live, but I watched quite a few videos on YT and yes, when I pay more atention, he is all over the place 🙃

[@haymjack]

A 68 for drop C??? What the heck. I’m assuming that’s more so for shorter scale length guitars. 56 in drop C feels plenty tight to my fingers at least on a 25.5 scale. That’s wild.

[@y3l3y3l3l]

He did say a 60 for drop C, I would say that that's not terribly far fetched, on the far end of the spectrum Lee Malia from Bring Me The Horizon uses a .80 for C

[@simontagecleary]

60 for drop C, anything lower he says 68-72

[@umbramalum9956]

Yeah i use a 62 on standard C and its still not that heavy (standard LP style guitar)

[@haymjack]

@@umbramalum9956 ah. Forgot the difference in detail. I still personally think that’s insanely heavy but maybe for the shorter scale length that’s fine? Idk. I also hardly have tuning issues with the setup I currently have. Always thought it was good. 🤷‍♂️

[@umbramalum9956]

@@haymjack well yeah and i use like 68 dor drop b and its still not that heavy at least for me for tremolo picking. Ill try a 72 but I don't wanna feel like im playing bass haha

[@officialWWM]

Billy Gibbons plays 8s. BB King played 7s. That rant about string guage is just nonsense. I plays 10s and have zero tuning issues but my bandmate plays 9s and his tone is awesome!

[@rome8180]

In general, this channel is way too focused on musical perfection to begin with. It's okay for things to be slightly out of tune. I would challenge people to isolate the guitars from classic albums and run them through Melodyne to see where the pitches are. But in the metal/hardcore genres Jordan produces, it seems that everything is supposed to sound like it's played by robots.

[@officialWWM]

@ couldn’t agree more! Guitars are never really in tune anyway, it’s all a compromise.

[@JamieK_89]

The correct string gauge for your tuning and scale length is really important. Takes some experimentation to find the right set, but it's really worth it.

[@Andy-mm5ff]

Wow. So in summary. In tune, a decent sound, with no mistakes... Genius

[@MichaelSorrentino1]

I think this video was made with good intentions and the reactions from other guitarists talking about the 11s for standard are absolutely valid. I think a disclaimer stating that it really depends on the genre you’re playing would’ve made the statement more complete.

[@davidschwartzguitar]

If I could add a couple more mistakes that people make: 1. Not recording a dry tack. A dry guitar track gives you a safety net in the event that you have a great performance, but the tone isn’t working for one reason or another. 2. Recording baked-in reverb and delay, or in other words, not separating the dry amp and wet effect signals. This can be risky, because if you do need to make edits at some point, you’re SOL. Same goes if you want to adjust the level of the dry guitar, but not the wet effects. It’s better, in my opinion, to either use a wet/dry amp setup, or add reverbs and delays during the mixing process.

[@elgalacs]

String gauge is subjective, Les Paul guitars are shorter scale than strats, in this case a light string gauge is problematic, but guitars with strat scale doesn't have this problem, maybe if you like light strings is important to acknowledge how they affect your tunning and learn to control the strength you put in your fingers.

[@o.phillips2522]

It really isn't. In whatever tuning you're in, with whatever scale length, you should be aiming for 20lbs of tension on your wound strings and 18lbs on your unwound ones.

[@SOYUSE]

​@@o.phillips2522 that's why Jason Richardson plays 11-58 in drop F#. Ofc, this is an extreme exemple, but 14-17lbs for low string would be enough, if you have a good control. Probably, you can use 20ibs for some styles, but I don't want to fight my strings in a proggy or modern metal stuff.

[@visionswords5477]

Metal guitarists play with different tunings and different mixes of open power chords and palm mutes. Thinking that it's fine just because strats are a little longer is way off. everyone should aim for around 18-22lbs of string tension of lower strings.

[@parkersmith9821]

This is awesome! Would love a follow up about drums. I struggle a lot with tuning drums when recording

[@joemarta8221]

Boomers lose their mind over it but I can't say enough good things about the Tunebot drum tuner. It makes tuning scientific and measurable and straightforward. It's still a pain in the ass to do but the results are so much more consitent

[@parkersmith9821]

@ I haven’t heard of that, I’ll check it out. Thanks man

[@redlightclinicdrummer]

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[@TonyJBrennan]

Playing drums for 45 years - get a Tune bot or a tune APP . Dont ever listen to ' aww you need to do it by ear ' ( ' or triggers are cheating ' ) Do whatever you need to do to play with comfort and good tone - there are no rules.

[@TonyJBrennan]

@@joemarta8221 im ancient and I agree with you

[@andrewanderson1173]

Bro you gotta explain the Drop C hate lol

[@MichaelSheaAudio]

If I were to take a guess, it would probably be that he hears it so much as a metalcore engineer/mixer/producer that he's just tired of it. Could be completely wrong, but that's my guess. :P

[@vincentbeaulieu933]

If I had to guess, it would be that the frequency range would overlap with other instruments or the vocalist more than other tunings that are higher or lower tone. In other words, you kinda lose definition in the sound and it gets a bit more muddy. But this is purely an assumption I am making based on mid-to-decent understanding of music recording.

[@mathiasfaltskog5940]

Pretty sure Vincent is close to the correct answer. I also hate Drop C when it comes to distorted guitars and always have. It's difficult to get a well defined chunky tone, and for some reason that specific tuning creates a lot of excess noise from the guitar and the pickups etc. Drop C just makes everything a bit more messy and difficult to deal with in my opinion.

[@MichaelSheaAudio]

@@mathiasfaltskog5940 Interesting. I love dropped C, I think it sounds great and haven't had any noticeable issues with it.

[@planetside718]

Right there's about a thousand killer albums that would disagree with most the comments here

[@kaiulrich6185]

I have two more pieces of advice about tuning. If possible use a peterson strobe tuner, you can’t be more precise than that plus you can even tune to the key of the song. And they come as an app for your cellphone, if you can’t afford the real device. But if you still are using regular tuners, everybody should use the same unit, because there is a chance, that two different tuners might not be calibrated exactly the same.

[@Martin-kn6vc]

I'd argue tuning is the most important. I've had to tune while fretting the chord before and punch in each chord. If I had an Evertune Strat, Tele and Les Paul style guitar, I'd be happy. Thankfully, I find tuning bass with Melodyne is pretty forgiving. I also only use an SM57 on guitar cabs. If I can't get a guitar tone I like with a single SM57, there's a problem elsewhere.

[@joemarta8221]

Melodyne on bass 🤯🤯🤯 I'd never even thought to do that, makes so much sense

[@Martin-kn6vc]

@joemarta8221 Give it a try! Obviously pitches can't be SUPER off, but it sounds way more natural than tuning a guitar's chord in polyphonic mode where the attack of the strums sound weird... In that case I just redo the guitar part. For bass I find Melodyne works pretty well!

[@danymalsound]

"How was that? Meh, we can just edit" LOL

[@DrewKane]

Just a note on the one-mic on the cab for guitars part: I sometimes use two sm57s for lead tracks to give a stereo effect, to keep the same tone without having to double track the leads, usually using the Fredman technique.

[@SoMyungJung]

Currently saving for a guitar equipped with Evertune bridge and True Temperament frets. This will definitely solve several problems :)

[@joemarta8221]

Sooooo accurate. Came to the same conclusions the hard way after too many takes that were slightly out of tune despite tuning religiously. String guage, accidental bends, and intonation. Gotta get all 3 right

[@DTrecording]

The tips on guitar tones is especially true for the bedroom musician/producer like myself. I find it's really easy to accidentally dial in a a muddy or overly-distorted tone without enough note definition, because I am hearing it together with jangly strings cleanly ringing out in the room. I found I make much better tone decisions when adjusting while looping a recorded DI.

[@ThreadBomb]

You could also wear isolating headphones while you play.

[@SybrenRoefs]

Great video, Thanks! I'd love a new video about making virtual amps sound more realistic so they'll work better in the mix. They're often so incredibly boomy and in-your-face sounding. (Softube, Brainworx, UA, etc)

[@abdullahkuzhan7247]

We need to know why Drop C is your least favourite tuning! You just massively pissed off every metalhead in your audience 😂.

[@Dwolfmusic]

Probably the fact the the strings are more loose and therefore less on pitch

[@abdullahkuzhan7247]

@ which you can and should offset with higher gauge strings. So what's the issue?

[@indivisibleman]

Maybe you could be less concerned with being "pissed off" by a KZbin teacher trying to educate you and more concerned that your entire genre is writing the exact same song over and over. For a bunch of "metal" players, you seem pretty delicate with your emotions.

[@DrewKane]

@@indivisibleman He wasn't being literal with the "pissed off". Calm down.

[@abdullahkuzhan7247]

@@indivisibleman geez, calm down. Delicate with my emotions? Read your own comment again, who's delicate with their emotions here? You see that emoji in my comment? Sorry that you didn't pick up on my delivery. Nobody is actually pissed off, rather curious why Jordan thinks that. If I didn't know and respect Jordan, I wouldn't have given a shit but I'm thinking "he knows his stuff, so maybe he knows something about it that I don't". I'm not even going to to go into your statement about the metal genre, because it's off topic and totally missed the mark.

[@pywidem5823]

This is REALLY informative and great information, straight to the point and very important, I get ton of bad DIs to mix and I’ll send them this video in the future!

[@StuCrombie]

I make some of these mistakes out of laziness, so good point, but if your going thick string gauges, the nuts gotta be cut to accomadate the strings else they.ll rest on top of the grooves, also the necks gonna bend so the truss rod needs adjusting, its strange really because baritone guitars use thick strings, but shorter scale like Jag and Les Paul need thicker strings too sloppy otherwise, so cant get my head around that one because longer neck has more tension, so maybe they use some sort of carbon fiber truss rod, no idea but i.ll say it anyway 😂

[@theAshesofDecember1]

I’ve adopted the mick Thompson approach of playing with Floyd rose equipped guitars but locking them down so that they don’t move at all. Keeps my guitar tuning rock solid. I also have found that getting the proper front end di DOES make a difference. I’ve used a number throughout the years, but the best results I’ve gotten have come from my neve

[@BurntMcgurnt]

You did explain it really well but the way ive always intonated is if you're looking at the tuner and the open string is in tune and you hit the note at the 12 fret if its right (sharp) tight if its left (flat) loose Right tight left loose is a really simple way to remember and no one says it haha

[@o.phillips2522]

Your gauge reccomendations are close, but way too heavy. Use a string tension calculator. No matter the tuning, your wound strings should be sitting around 20lbs of tension, and your unwound strings should be around 18lbs. In Drop C with a 25.5" scale length, that gives you an 11-60 set of strings.

[@Denknificent]

Agreed. I’d use a 10-52 or 11-56 for drop C lmfao not standard

[@hardcoremusicstudio]

cringe

[@Denknificent]

@@hardcoremusicstudio how is it cringe to disagree with you?

[@hardcoremusicstudio]

no, I'm cringing just remembering the pain of all the times I recorded bands with those gauges in Drop C.

[@naterblade]

thank you so much. The string gauge thing also applies in live settings.

[@lunarfifthstudios]

Love your focus on the tracking to bring out the power in the mix- great advice as always! Excited to finally be getting back to the studio with all these solid tips! 🙌🔥

[@TonyJBrennan]

one thing about guitar tone - assuming your guitar is fine - your studio monitoring will send you down rabbit holes unless its working well.

[@drrodopszin]

Trying to record perfect takes is amazing practice; if done before the "tracking stress" of being in a paid-by-the-hour studio session. Learn to edit your performance then try to match it. You must have a home recording kit. No need for expensive stuff: a decent external soundcard, a decent headphone (super important! why spend a 1000$ on your guitar rig and then listen to a 10$ teacup sounding garbage?). For the sound even free plugins can get you there.

[@chrisrune123]

would you prefer to transpose if you have strings fitting for Drop A but wanna record in Drop G? If restringing isnt an option that is

[@CrossMetal777]

Incredibly informative, thanks a lot!

[@CoolWhipp-hy1qu]

Great video. Definitely helps being meticulous with the guitars.

[@fenomenomenofeno]

There have been times where a 6th string (sometimes other strings) going slightly out of tune while being open and being hit hard, sounds awesome imo. Maybe not in metal tho. So I think it comes down to the song in question.

[@bjornlakenstrazen2186]

Colin Cowherd thank you so much for your tips all these years later

[@matthewterbeek3128]

Underrated comment.

[@metalinsights9664]

If it only were that simple to dial in great sounds by simply twisting the knobs until it sounds like the reference track. I challenge anyone to replicate Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind tone with just an amp, cab, an overdrive of your choice, and an SM57 in close-miking position.

[@MichaelSheaAudio]

The string gauge one is crazy. I completely understand that people can bend strings out of tune and pitch drift is a thing if the strings are too light, but 11's in standard?? The move from 10's down to 9's completely opened up my playing. I could barely bend the strings up a full tone on 10's. It's not because I'm lazy, it's because I have small, skinny hands. I've been playing for 20 years and it's just too much tension for my hands, even with the great setups that my guitars have. I do 9's for standard and 10's for dropped C and it works perfectly fine. I also only use a .73mm nylon pick, so it's not like I'm slamming the strings with every touch. The "heavier tone" bit is also silly. Go listen to St. [b]Anger, tell me that 10-46 strings and a nylon pick didn't get a heavy tone. I also used light strings and an even lighter pick on the bass. Sounds pretty heavy to me. 🤷

[@listeningtothesky550]

we need more recording videos!! love learning about this stuff

[@philipalmen5116]

Bro you gotta explain the triple and quad track statement. The whole stereo image is created by having all takes just a tiny bit off. Otherwise as a total beginner I would just copy paste. And that doesn't even come close to giving a similar effect.

[@AndrewGomez]

For what it’s worth, I’ve been tracking/recording/producing guitar-heavy music with some of the best players in the industry, as well as myself, for over 10 years, and I think everything talked about in this video is valid.

[@lilian896]

Fantastic advice! ★So much I did not realize.

[@peptoattack]

I'm pretty amateur at producing. I mostly produce my own stuff, so I already have good instruments beforehand, following this mentality. However, I recently produced a band, and the only guitar player had one guitar with serious tuning problems, but we only had this one guitar and only one day to track the song. So... I did the best I could, but even after that, I had to make a lot of tuning editing. I think I got it pretty good, but all that was totally unprofessional, and I don't see a better solution if it happens again.

[@andreasproller9741]

Is there anybody who could Tell me what Brand the black Strat on the picture bevor u start the Video is? Thank you

[@studio42.thelivesessions38]

Nice one, thank you!! I would add one more... NEVER record guitars (or every other instrument) before the recorded drums are finally edited. You can have the best performance in timing on the raw drums but it will fall apart when the drums have been changed afterwards. It's a mess and I know sometimes there is no time to wait until the edit is done... Sometimes then it is better to record onto the click. Speaking of music where the grid is quite important of course. My 2 cents about it. Greetz!

[@StratsRUs]

'Dumb' mistakes. The Algorithm is king.

[@CR3271]

+1 on string gauge. I play 7-string guitars, but I buy 8-string packs and discard one of the middle strings. That way I get 10's on the high strings for relatively easy bending, but I also have those big chunky strings for the low riffs.

[@streck0486]

Probably should have started with the performance aspect. If you can't play like a pro, your recording won't sound pro, even if you record yourself like a pro.

[@JorisGriffioen]

4:25 joke's on you, I play 11-56 with an Invader AND play hard 😂

[@GodFearingJoshOfficial]

Must know why my favorite tuning is your least favorite tuning!

[@hardcoremusicstudio]

It just seems like that's the point where a 6 string guitar starts to fall apart in terms of tuning and intonation

[@MrMockigton]

i absolutely get it. here are my thoughts on drop c: it is heavily overused. every single band that goes "oh welp we need to be heavy but still approachable" goes for Drop C. it lacks the punch of drop D. drop D is so much more energetic, powerful and sound a lot more interesting it lacks the girth and grind and mellowness of drop B. Drop B has lots of energy, lots of punch, and gives you this really nice low point. also, melodies arent as harsh on your ears. drop A would be my absolute lowest point i'll ever go, it is deep, it is heavy, but it starts to get muddy and muffled pretty soon and at that point just pick a 7-string. so in conclusion: drop C is lifeless, boring, lacks thwack and all that, it is a pain to work in congruence with a bass guitar (either telephone cable on E string or 5 string bass and constantly fretting the 1st fret) and i personally think every other tuning except E standard is better. but that obviously very subjective

[@LuLeBe]

​@@hardcoremusicstudiowhat's the difference between 6 and 7 string there? Provided they have the same scale length and use the same strings, isn't a low tuned 6str just like the lower6 strings of a 7?

[@hardcoremusicstudio]

@MrMockigton Yeah I tend to agree with you here. Drop D sounds a lot more clear & punchy. When you get down to drop B and A it has its own kind of sound. But Drop C is in no man's land in the middle; all guitars seem to hate it for tuning and you don't really gain anything in terms of tone vs. drop D or even C#.

[@drrodopszin]

Tuning is hell. I make sure it's dead in the middle, I strum it a bit stronger how I would and then it's sharp. Also you even need to tune sometimes for the riff. I remember we had to slightly tune down a couple of strings for a higher pitched section so it wouldn't be off.

[@magoootube]

That's just like your opinion man

[@DavesWoodFloors]

What are your thoughts on Volume when tracking. How loud do you track your guitars at..?

[@standardqueue]

Sending amateur guitarists off into the quagmire hell of intonating their guitars with no experience is really bad advice, most will never get it right as action has just as much to do with intonation ( which you failed to mention) and they won't be able to set it back to original state, I guarantee you're single handedly bricking loads of guitars that will end up taken into shops, which is what should be done in the first place, properly. Getting a second beater guitar to learn on is best. that's if ever you want to spend that much time being a tech instead of a player, most never do and $50 once every couple of years by a pro who will do it 10x better than you ever will seems reasonable and just too easy. And now on to your string bs, almost every famous electric player save for SRV, may he RIP, very few others plays 9 or tens, and fatter guage only on drop tunings or shorter scale LPs or live for breakage worries; Page, Malmstein, Iommi, BB king: 8's. Strings are a style and TONE choice and shouldn't be chosen based on inexperienced fretboard control; practice, practice should be the advice.

[@stephenstarr6388]

$50? When was the last time you went to a luthier?

[@standardqueue]

​@@stephenstarr6388 Luthier, never, why? I go to the guitar store like the pedestrian I am and get it done by a guitar tech for 50 bucks, but more power to you. How fancy, do you also hire civil engineers to do your lawn? Call up NASA to change your oil?

[@kaiulrich6185]

11 to 52 ? Are you kidding me ? Nobody uses that heavy strings.

[@hardcoremusicstudio]

haha these comments are shocking to me. Those feel small to me.

[@kaiulrich6185]

@ Then maybe you‘re a fingerstrength monster. But honestly, I agree with your point when it comes to 07 or 08 sets ( even though Billy Gibbons plays 07 sets), but 09 to 42 is pretty standard and works fine. And there is a great video by Rick Beato with proof, that heavier strings don’t automatically make for a bigger sound.

[@hardcoremusicstudio]

no, i never argued that... the string gauge has nothing to do with tone EXCEPT the fact that you can play harder and more energetically. I think I said in the video, I'll sacrifice a bit of tone for the sake of tuning, every time.

[@williamzhou5087]

Calling using light string gauges dumb or "lazy" is pretty offensive tbh.

[@officialWWM]

It also shows he has no idea what he’s talking about.

[@tylerstooksbury3050]

lol - no. Light string gauges are generally not great 90% of the time. Unless you’re in stabdard tuning all the time, you really want heavier strings. Stays in tin while playing and stuff too. It’s ideal.

[@oscardelaurent]

Guitars with a longer scale length (like strats) generally do better with a lighter gauge. It's really a matter of taste and intent. To not throw lighter strings out of tune, you just have to control your finger pressure-- which you should control with any gauge of strings.

[@williamzhou5087]

@@oscardelaurent Agreed. Just relax on both hands and do not press down on the fret too hard. I have been using 09-46 on standard tuning tracking all the time and it works perfectly fine for me.

[@williamzhou5087]

@@officialWWM Most stuff in this video makes me wonder if this guy actually plays guitar.

[@ThreadBomb]

If you want every note to be perfectly in tune all the time, maybe you should just play a keyboard.

[@noelgallard1128]

I think maybe this isn’t the best advice with what you are starting out this video with 🤔 I guess your addressing brand new guitarist or people can’t play but try to record. But the guitar isn’t a digital midi piano it will never be in perfect in tune. That’s what makes it an amazing musical instrument… also standard gauge for beginners I wouldn’t suggest 11s I would suggest 10s they are better for beginners easier to bend. Most guitars come with a set up for 10s not 11s so if you go to 11s you need a new setup….. also would disagree with the tone idea. Find a good tone isn’t about trying to make it sound mixed. Often times people make the mistake of trying to mix and record at the same time…. Yes a lot of guitar tones that amazing guitar players have in songs are technically bad those are scenarios where the entire song has guitars…. Also a lot of the best guitar tones are slightly detuned… the guitar sounds better when it is slightly out of tune if you working with distortion…. The best thing you can do for intonation is get stainless steals frets and squiggly intonation frets if you want to be that perfectly in tune. If you are starting to get the picky that’s the best you can do… also don’t tune constantly.. to the tuner… because your attack will be different so my perfectly tuned guitar will not be the same for you… you can trust the tuner so much… if you want better intonation don’t get a whammy. A hard tail guitar will stay in tune longer and better than a Strat… or any whammy for that matter… and Van Halen tuned by ear… which made his music really cool. Don’t treat the guitar like a midi instrument or a piano. And even then piano tuning changes I don’t see piano players tuning their pianos every day… if you are using an acoustic piano tune to the piano… like the orchestra does… because they get out of tune over time…

[@Wizardofvoz2]

75%+ of “tone” is in a guitarists hands.

[@LuLeBe]

Why would a 7 String be better for lower tunings? If you tune a 6 string like the lowest 6 strings of a 7, what's the difference? Of course the right strings matter.

[@MrRzk600]

7string guitars mostly have a longer scale

[@teddycook1299]

Higher mass seventh string is designed to have correct intonation up the fretboard. You’ll notice that if you take a string gauge designed for low E and tune it too far one way or another the intonation goes out pretty fast.

[@Just-gt9oo]

👍

[@toddhatfield5329]

11-52?! A starting point for standard? You're high haha

[@Snivic-music]

complete bullshit XD

[@MrRzk600]

I'd say that 10 52 is better, so partly I agree with him

[@Fred.A.Dubeau]

i’d say at least 10-46 for standard

[@Snivic-music]

@@MrRzk600 anywhere from 9-42 up to 10-52 would be fine for E standard. 10-52 is good for drop d, Eb standard and drop C#. but it also depends on the scale length of the guitar.

[@insleys]

The string gauge rant is just nonsense. "Better tone" from thicker strings? Hmm, there are a ton of videos on YT demonstrating how heavier strings result in a less vibrant tone. Sure, the tuning argument is alright, but it's not hard for most guitarists that are good enough to be recording to just concentrate a bit more on their technique for the take.

[@hardcoremusicstudio]

yeah, but in real life the difference you're talking about is literally going to be hours per day trying to get them to have better technique to accommodate small strings.

[@mikekashaev]

Thank God I dont do these mistakes.

[@hardcoremusicstudio]

Winning comment

[@mikekashaev]

@@hardcoremusicstudio I mean I dont do it now, some of them I did before, of course. You live and you learn.

[@Durkhead]

Lighter strings sound better thats why guitarists use lighter strings

[@toddhatfield5329]

11-52?! A starting point for standard? You're high haha

[@DamienTheCat]

Instead of 10-46..? You're just weak...

[@havocdevelopment6142]

Homie I play 13s. Man up 😂

[@abdullahkuzhan7247]

@@havocdevelopment6142 For standard tuning? No you don't. That's around 30 pounds of tension across the board. You guys getting insecure about string gauges like it's a dick size contest is hilarious. Would love to see you do a whole step bend on that 36 lbs g string. Man up.